Evolution of AWS EC2 General-Purpose: A 13-Year Performance and Price Analysis - OpenSSL Speed
Go back to listOpenSSL speed is a lighweight opensource tool provided with the openssl command-line tool. It times the encryption/decryption through different algorithm and block size. Its output delivers a good picture of how much a system is able to perform with the different encryption systems available in the industry
This micro-benchmark is a feature of the openssl package and you can easily reproduce the tests with the following command:
openssl speed -multi ${cpu_number} -mr ${algo}As Geekbench is compiled for x86, results for ARM architecture aren't available.
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Observations:
- Distinctively, each brand show a constants evolution since their 1st launch
- The last Intel completly outperforms the AMD