Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T7500 @ 2.20GHz

CPU :	family 6, model 15 and stepping 11
model name :	Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T7500 @ 2.20GHz
cpu MHz :	1200.000 / 2200.000
cache size :	4096 KB
flags :	fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts aperfmperf pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm lahf_lm dts tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority
bogomips :	4388.07

Mainboard :	Advansus i965GM-DCQI
Memory DDR2:	2G @ 800MHz
Memory benchmark (hdparm) :	3562.11 MB/sec
HD benchmark (hdparm udma5) : (OCZ CORE_SSD)	66.95 MB/sec

OS: openSUSE 11.4

SSL test:

linux:~> openssl version

OpenSSL 1.0.0c 2 Dec 2010

linux:~> openssl engine

(aesni) Intel AES-NI engine (no-aesni)
(dynamic) Dynamic engine loading support

linux:~> openssl speed -evp aes-128-cbc rc4 blowfish
The 'numbers' are in 1000s of bytes per second processed.

type	16 bytes	64 bytes	256 bytes	1024 bytes	8192 bytes
rc4	319770.13k	352965.18k	316828.08k	262330.37k	244995.41k
blowfish cbc	79629.24k	84159.83k	85523.46k	86187.24k	86076.07k
aes-128-cbc	59437.61k	70680.26k	73896.53k	118254.59k	119649.62k

ssh test:

Create big empty file (1Gb file)

dd if=/dev/zero of=bigfile count=0 seek=2000k  

ssh benchmark - to localhost.

scp bigfile localhost:/dev/null 
for i in aes128-cbc blowfish ; do scp -c  bigfile localhost:/dev/null ; done

bigfile.ePDWxYz8au                             100% 1000MB  40.0MB/s   00:25    
bigfile.ePDWxYz8au                             100% 1000MB  66.7MB/s   00:15    
bigfile.ePDWxYz8au                             100% 1000MB  52.6MB/s   00:19    

default :	40.0MB/s
aes128-cbc :	66.7MB/s
blowfish :	52.6MB/s

ramdisk test:

size: 1000 megabytes, cipher:aes-cbc-essiv:sha256, key: 256b, direct I/O for both write/read

	unencrypted		encrypted
blocksize	write speed	read speed	encrypt speed	decrypt speed
512	39.468	42.036	12.928	16.850
1k	73.493	78.284	18.119	26.115
2k	129.510	151.633	25.074	36.230
4k	241.820	288.677	39.605	44.817
8k	385.300	489.263	44.163	50.730
16k	617.730	842.623	47.033	54.388
1M	1168.989	1853.355	52.273	61.073

encrypted ramdisk test, direct i/o:
size: 1024 megabytes, cipher: aes-cbc-essiv:sha256, key: 256b

blocksize	write speed	read speed	enc speed	dec speed
512	36.383	43.813	16.950	17.091
1k	77.871	81.079	24.860	26.297
2k	141.008	157.036	32.820	36.104
4k	266.949	300.466	39.904	44.477
8k	409.102	501.488	43.735	50.138
16k	593.007	760.913	46.374	53.577
1M	1175.672	1868.377	51.366	60.127

2x Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X5560 @ 2.80GHz

CPUs 2 / cores 4 / threads 16

CPU :	family , model 26 and stepping 5
model name :	Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X5560 @ 2.80GHz
cpu MHz :	1600.000 /2801.000
cache size :	8192 KB
flags :	fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx rdtscp lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good nopl xtopology nonstop_tsc aperfmperf pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm dca sse4_1 sse4_2 popcnt lahf_lm ida dts tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority ept vpid
bogomips :	5599.19

Mainboard :	Supermicro X8DAH+-F_
Memory :	96G DDR3 @ 1333 ECC
Memory benchmark (hdparm) :	8823.29 MB/sec
HD benchmark (hdparm udma6) : (Intel X18-M/X25-M/X25-V G2 SSDs)	188.78 MB/sec

OS:openSUSE 11.4

openSSL benchmark:

linux:~> openssl version

OpenSSL 1.0.0k 5 Feb 2013

linux:~> openssl engine

(aesni) Intel AES-NI engine (no-aesni)
(dynamic) Dynamic engine loading support

linux:~> openssl speed -evp aes-128-cbc rc4 blowfish
The 'numbers' are in 1000s of bytes per second processed.

type	16 bytes	64 bytes	256 bytes	1024 bytes	8192 bytes
rc4	333908.14k	358351.93k	322019.06k	324682.66k	319383.89k
blowfish cbc	108741.83k	113345.84k	113786.26k	111634.15k	113263.30k
aes-128-cbc	86397.43k	95110.10k	98164.18k	98861.21k	100087.61k

openSSH benchmark:

Create big empty file (1Gb file)

dd if=/dev/zero of=bigfile count=0 seek=2000k  

ssh benchmark - to localhost.

scp bigfile localhost:/dev/null 
for i in aes128-cbc blowfish ; do scp -c  bigfile localhost:/dev/null ; done

bigfile.nmRm2q76y1                                 100% 1000MB  62.5MB/s   00:16    
bigfile.nmRm2q76y1                                 100% 1000MB  47.6MB/s   00:21    
bigfile.nmRm2q76y1                                 100% 1000MB  71.4MB/s   00:14    

default :	62.5MB/s
aes128-cbc :	47.6MB/s
blowfish :	71.4MB/s

encrypted ramdisk test:

It is evident, thate there is some distortion due to the write cache: the machine has 96GB ram vs 1.5G ramdisk size.

	unencrypted		encrypted
blocksize	write speed	read speed	encrypt speed	decrypt speed
512	475.249	797.113	543.139	119.374
1k	788.407	1220.117	702.260	118.573
2k	1053.555	1314.705	1029.413	123.860
4k	1290.156	1972.262	1286.758	122.882
8k	1386.975	2218.426	1407.089	120.780
16k	1451.842	2299.632	1454.362	120.326
1M	1478.007	1482.638	1486.723	120.268

size: 1500 megabytes, cipher: aes-cbc-essiv:sha256, key: 256b

In the next test I have specified oflag=direct in the write/encrypt phase of the test:
  dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/cryptramdisk/testfile bs=$i oflag=direct 
 

	unencrypted		encrypted
blocksize	write speed	read speed	encrypt speed	decrypt speed
512	73.683	855.768	6.802	119.000
1k	117.380	986.258	29.959	125.969
2k	213.170	1432.815	44.993	127.687
4k	390.188	1584.645	74.000	127.211
8k	721.074	2281.958	85.902	126.657
16k	1188.749	1471.006	89.185	124.285
1M	2412.269	2280.647	106.671	124.164

size: 1500 megabytes, cipher: aes-cbc-essiv:sha256, key: 256b, dd: oflag=direct

Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4570 CPU @ 3.20GHz (w. AES_NI)

cores 4 / threads 4

CPU :	family , model 60 and stepping 3
model name :	Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4570 CPU @ 3.20GHz
cpu MHz :	3201.000 / 800.000
cache size :	6144 KB
flags :	fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx pdpe1gb rdtscp lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good nopl xtopology nonstop_tsc aperfmperf eagerfpu pni pclmulqdq dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx smx est tm2 ssse3 fma cx16 xtpr pdcm pcid sse4_1 sse4_2 x2apic movbe popcnt tsc_deadline_timer aes xsave avx f16c rdrand lahf_lm abm ida arat epb xsaveopt pln pts dtherm tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority ept vpid fsgsbase bmi1 hle avx2 smep bmi2 erms invpcid rtm
bogomips :	6528.40

Mainboard :	ASUS Z87K
Memory :	16G DDR3 @ 1333
Memory benchmark (hdparm) :	14263.90 MB/sec
HD benchmark (hdparm udma6) : (Samsung SSD 840 EVO 120GB)	513.42 MB/sec

OS: openSUSE 12.3 x64
linux:~> openssl version

OpenSSL 1.0.1e 11 Feb 2013

linux:~> openssl engine

(rsax) RSAX engine support
(rdrand) Intel RDRAND engine
(dynamic) Dynamic engine loading support

linux:~> openssl speed -evp aes-128-cbc rc4 blowfish
The 'numbers' are in 1000s of bytes per second processed.

type	16 bytes	64 bytes	256 bytes	1024 bytes	8192 bytes
rc4	427220.93k	746003.93k	863724.80k	909415.77k	916816.31k
blowfish cbc	128327.78k	134717.07k	136319.06k	136954.35k	136396.80k
aes-128-cbc	744823.17k	804284.47k	819621.38k	826812.19k	825633.05k

Create big empty file (1Gb file)

dd if=/dev/zero of=bigfile count=0 seek=2000k  

ssh benchmark - to localhost.

scp bigfile localhost:/dev/null 
for i in aes128-cbc blowfish ; do scp -c  bigfile localhost:/dev/null ; done

bigfile.yyznXIPwa8                                               100% 1000MB 100.0MB/s  00:10    
bigfile.yyznXIPwa8                                               100% 1000MB 333.3MB/s  00:03    
bigfile.yyznXIPwa8                                               100% 1000MB 100.0MB/s  00:10    

default :	100.0MB/s
aes128-cbc :	333.3MB/s
blowfish :	100.0MB/s

encrypted ramdisk test:
size: 500 megabytes, cipher: aes-cbc-essiv:sha256, key: 256b

blocksize	encrypt speed (MB/s)	decrypt speed(MB/s)
512	459.740	1165.938
1k	648.384	1342.292
2k	819.053	1353.579
4k	951.722	1467.993
8k	992.630	1419.430
16k	1010.366	1537.297
1M	1025.405	1481.828

encrypted ramdisk test 2 (direct i/o access, no fs)
size: 8192 megabytes, cipher: aes-cbc-essiv:sha256, key: 256b

blocksize	write speed	read speed	enc speed	dec speed
512	109.004	124.801	68.049	76.959
1k	212.417	245.119	114.922	143.792
2k	412.487	476.309	179.939	252.688
4k	782.179	862.965	251.660	409.964
8k	1313.835	1511.854	307.326	624.942
16k	2006.063	2443.338	347.675	787.669
1M	4774.449	6681.129	421.269	1081.190