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Testing shows AMD Zen 4 handling Spectre, Retbleed mitigations like a real champ

Sayan Sen — Sat, 01 Oct 2022 17:30:01 +0000

AMD's Zen 4 has been tested with the various Spectre variant mitigations and the performance is surprisingly good. In fact, overall, the Ryzen 7950X has managed to beat the unpatched system. Read more...

With its newfound retpoline Spectre patch, AMD CPUs are nowhere nearly as sloppy as Intel's

Sayan Sen — Sat, 12 Mar 2022 06:34:01 +0000

Testing the new retpoline mitigation on AMD for Spectre v2 shows that the performance loss with the new patch is nowhere nearly as big as the performance impact incurred by Intel processors. Read more...