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AES-NI is not 100% offloading. It only offloads the heaviest parts.

The penalty is not huge especially compared to fully software implementations but it's not zero. And it takes memory bandwidth too.

I don't use FDE on my gaming system for this reason. It's a big heavy PC that never leaves my house with not really any personal data anyway.




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