" Meltdown / Spectre patches have virtually no effect on video games." The amount of speculative-execution that games rely upon for many of their components is

" Meltdown / Spectre patches have virtually no effect on video games." The amount of speculative-execution that games rely upon for many of their components is insane. With the patch applied, I went from a solid 60FPS at 1440x900 in GTAV down to about 48 FPS (as measured by the Steam FPS counter) on a 7th-gen i3.