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Or use AMD....
by jankotek 7y ago
Or use AMD....
- Arnavion 7y agoSpectre mitigations are applied for both Intel and AMD.
- jankotek 7y agoOnly partly > Based on external and internal analysis, AMD believes it is not vulnerable to the SWAPGS variant attacks because AMD products are designed not to speculate on the new GS value following a speculative SWAPGS. For the attack that is not a SWAPGS variant, the mitigation is to implement our existing recommendations for Spectre variant 1. https://www.amd.com/en/corporate/product-security https://www.amd.com/en/corporate/product-security
- saagarjha 7y agoMost of the Spectre variants do affect AMD as well, however.
- papermachete 7y agoAMD only just now released laptop CPUs that can compete with intel.
- dirtydroog 7y agoWhat has that got to do with anything?
- papermachete 7y agoThere was no incentive go to with AMD so now a ton of people want their Intel performance back instead of buying a new PC. Heck, this also applies to FX CPUs.
- CodeArtisan 7y agosome mitigations are also applied to AMD Zen2. A benchmark on Phoronix showed a cost between 15% and 5% of performances.