• @hohoho
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    26 months ago

    I’ve been following the Intel story closely. Watched the Gamers Nexus vids. Did I miss it or has it been reported that microcode updates will definitely degrade performance?

    • @bossjack
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      86 months ago

      It’s not confirmed. Its just pessimism, albeit very well argued and precedented.

      • @[email protected]
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        66 months ago

        Yup, the “fix” seems to be to limit boost to 5.3GHz or so, and there may be other mitigations as well. If it has anything to do with branch prediction or other eager optimizations, we could see further degradations like with the fixes for Spectre and other attacks.

    • @Linkerbaan
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      16 months ago

      Voltages are probably too high. With lower voltages they very likely won’t be able to hit the same clockspeeds.