3 ms·How much will the meltdown patches cost the industry in electricity?1 points by ashtonian 9y agobased on the performance penalties534b44a 9y agoEven though CPUs have been made more power efficient the last decade, I've read that there'll be a performance reduction of 30-50% on the intel ones.ashtonian 9y agoI thought it was more like 20-30% for specific applications, mostly database stuff.