Benchmarking The Performance Cost To Full Disk Encryption For Modern AMD Ryzen Laptops
The FS-Mark benchmark showed minimal impact from having full disk encryption.
For workloads like compiling large code-bases, having full disk encryption on this Zen 4 laptop with NVMe storage hadn't impacted the build times.
For quick-running software tasks relying on opening files from disk like GIMP image manipulation there wasn't any real-world performance impact there either.
Running synthetic I/O benchmarks can sometimes quantify a performance hit to full disk encryption but for most real-world desktop/laptop work-cases outside of running a database sever locally or the like will not find any measurable impairment from using full disk encryption. For as much of a performance junkie as I am, I have no hesitation always making use of full disk encryption when setting up modern Intel and AMD laptops for production use.
The CPU power consumption difference is also minimal of utilizing full disk encryption or not.
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