AMD and Intel modern processors just got big boosts in performance thanks to various implementations of AES-XTX that help in disk encryption. For example, Windows BitLocker uses AES-XTX-128.
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AMD's Zen 5, which will power the Ryzen 8000 series processors, is already getting support from popular monitoring software AIDA64. This is alongside the support for next-gen PCIe 6.0 SSDs.
After recently proposing x86S 64-bit only CPUs, Intel today introduces AVX10 which brings AVX-512 to its E-cores as well. The company is also debuting a new APX ISA that doubles GPRs.
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The latest versions of Geekbench, v6.1, as well as y-cruncher, have improved support for Intel's AVX-512 instruction. However, Intel's own current processors do not support this anymore.
The latest edition of Macrium Reflect fixes a couple of major issues. The first one is related to disk image failures where users reported an "Invalid Function" error, while the second is an AVX bug.
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An early performance preview of Intel's upcoming 13th Gen Raptor Lake CPUs has been published by SiSoftware. The chip was tested against last gen Alder Lake as well as against AMD's Zen 3.
