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I could be mistaken, but I recall seeing benchmarks that came out during the whole meltdown/spectre fiasco showed that the effects on games were pretty negligib
by bwat49 8y ago
I could be mistaken, but I recall seeing benchmarks that came out during the whole meltdown/spectre fiasco showed that the effects on games were pretty negligible.
I thought it was mainly workloads relating to virtualization etc... that were effected significantly
- onli 8y agoHere are two benchmarks supporting this: https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2018-does-patching-cpu-security-flaws-impact-gaming-performance https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2018-does-..., https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gaming-performance-meltdown-spectre-intel-amd,5457-5.html https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gaming-performance-melt.... I remember it like that as well.
- citilife 8y agoThere have been many more updates since (for instance the first article you linked was from 01/10/18): January 29th Microsoft had to revert the Intel patch discribed: https://www.zdnet.com/article/windows-emergency-patch-microsofts-new-update-kills-off-intels-spectre-fix/ https://www.zdnet.com/article/windows-emergency-patch-micros... There's also implementations in March for the Spectre variant 2: https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/microsoft-windows-patch-skylake-spectre-variant-2/ https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/microsoft-windows-pa... There's much more in here.
- bwat49 8y agoit looks like anandtech's methodology was flawed: https://www.anandtech.com/show/12678/a-timely-discovery-examining-amd-2nd-gen-ryzen-results/4 https://www.anandtech.com/show/12678/a-timely-discovery-exam...