[Terribledactyl]

The A8 doesn't have a dedicated crypto engine like Intel chips do (uncore I think they call it). The A8 does have a couple of AES specific instructions so each core can speed up the work, but they were executed speculatively and presumably are no longer done so.

[viraptor]

From Geekbench knowledgebase: "Geekbench will use AES instructions when available, and fall back to software implementations otherwise."

I expect this test to use them.