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White Paper
Vinodh Gopal
Jim Guilford
Wajdi Feghali
Erdinc Ozturk
Gil Wolrich
Kirk Yap
Sean Gulley
Martin Dixon
IA Architects
Intel Corporation
January 2011
Cryptographic
Performance on
the 2
Intel® Core™
processor family
nd
Generation
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2nd Generation Intel® Core™ processor family
Executive Summ ar y
The latest 2nd Generation Intel® Core™ processor family brings huge
performance increases to cryptographic applications.
Cryptographic algorithms consist of public and private key operations,
combined with secure hashing. We examine the performance of a small
representative set of algorithms on the new processors, and compare
with the performance of the Intel® microarchitecture code named
Westmere.
This paper describes the performance increase that can be achieved
Cryptographic Performance on the
on the 2nd Generation Intel® Core™ processor family over the Intel®
microarchitecture code named Westmere, on cryptographic
applications. We show the results on a small representative sample
set of algorithms optimized for performance on each processor. The
net result is an improvement in cryptographic performance up to
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~1.8X over the previous Intel pr oces sor s
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Software and workloads used in performance tests may have been optimized for performance
only on Intel microprocessor s . Pe rformance tests, suc h a s S YS m ark and MobileMark, are
measured using specific computer systems, components, software, operations and functions.
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http://www.intel.com/performance
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