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I wonder what implications this will have on those who run Intel in their gaming rigs. I'm due to refresh, and _was_ gonna invest in Intel as my CPU. But this s
by TheSwordsman 9y ago
I wonder what implications this will have on those who run Intel in their gaming rigs. I'm due to refresh, and _was_ gonna invest in Intel as my CPU. But this seems pretty damning for that.
I assume the system calls to interact with the GPU, or to do any sort of I/O, are going to incur the performance overhead. So rendering frames, reading/writing from the network, and loading assets from the disk could all cause issues.
And this is just for gaming. Anyone using a cloud provider that's running on Intel needs to worry about similar things.
What a nightmare...
- a_humean 9y agoApparently zero effect: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=x86-PTI-Initial-Gaming-Tests https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=x86-PTI-...
- QShift 9y agoWell, that's for Linux. We don't exactly know what effects such patches would have on other platforms yet. (do we?)
- rnhmjoj 9y agoTo make things worse there is an increasing number of games running DRMs like Denuvo and VMProtect that cause a significant performance hit. I think these will be more heavily affected by the patch.
- obscurantist 9y agoI don't get why more developers don't take notes from CD Projekt.
- chrisper 9y agoSadly I just bought an 8700k last week. Great CPU until next Tuesday? (Windows Patch Day) Though even if I lose some percentage, it will still outrun AMD on single core applications (and probably also multi core ones).