- Feb 4, 2016
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Intel details performance hit for Meltdown fix
In a separate statement, Intel posted the results of a few benchmark tests it carried out for PCs patched against the Meltdown fix.
Intel said the older the user's processor is, the bigger the performance hit. Recent processors like the Kaby Lake series recorded a performance dip of around 5%, but the performance decrease goes into double-figures for older series.
Intel notes that performance for "web applications that involve complex JavaScript operations may see a somewhat higher impact (up to 10 percent based on our initial measurements)" while "graphics-intensive [workloads] like gaming or compute-intensive like financial analysis see minimal impact."
The results of Intel's benchmark are available in PDF format here.
