That article reports: If looking at the geometric mean for the tests run today, the Intel systems all saw about 16% lower performance out-of-the-box now with th

That article reports: If looking at the geometric mean for the tests run today, the Intel systems all saw about 16% lower performance out-of-the-box now with these default mitigations and obviously even lower if disabling Hyper Threading for maximum security. The two AMD systems tested saw a 3% performance hit with the default mitigations. While there are minor differences between the systems to consider, the mitigation impact is enough to draw the Core i7 8700K much closer to the Ryzen 7 2700X and the Core i9 7980XE to the Threadripper 2990WX. Rough prices I just googled: Core i7 8700K is $390, Ryzen 7 2700x is $290, Core i9 7980XE is $1800 and Threadripper 2990WX is $1600.