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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...

AMD issues fix for Spectre v2 which confirms nearly every desktop CPU is still vulnerable

Alap Naik Desai — Sat, 12 Mar 2022 06:18:01 +0000

Intel and ARM are vulnerable to the Spectre-BHB flaw, but AMD is apparently troubled by Spectre v2, which it should have fixed back in 2018. AMD has now issued a new fix for the CVE-2017-5715 bug. Read more...

Even modern Intel CPUs are losing up to 36% performance with the new Spectre BHI patch

Sayan Sen — Fri, 11 Mar 2022 15:16:01 +0000

A new CPU exploit based on the infamous Spectre v2 has been discovered. However, when the security patch is applied it can affect performance by up to 36%, that's according to a recent study. Read more...