I haven't used BitLocker or anything else, so I can't really compare. Veracrypt has a neat benchmark tool so you know the speed beforehand. I suppose most CPUs

I haven't used BitLocker or anything else, so I can't really compare. Veracrypt has a neat benchmark tool so you know the speed beforehand. I suppose most CPUs have native support for the popular algorithms, so the bottleneck really is the disk, not CPU itself or the software.