I'm a little sad to see that there are really no improvements except for AES handling, but I'm assuming it's more of a software issue. That's fine with me though, I mean even if it can do the same old things at the same old speed, it can handle 50% more of the same old things simultaneously.

Need DP version released now! 24 threads would be much nicer than 16.


I want to see this AES handling in action though. I like the example use given as full hard drive encryption, and I would love to know how much it consumes in terms of CPU resources and how much of a performance impact it is to the disk subsystem. For example, would encrypting your whole disk on a 6-core give you about the same performance as a 4-core non-encrypted system, with a slight hit to disk performance... or is it better/worse? To me this is a huge question.