Windows update will reduce Spectre and Meltdown patch performance hit to 1-2%

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https://www.techspot.com/news/77026-windows-update-reduce-spectre-meltdown-patch-performance-hit.html

Expect Intel-based Windows 10 machines to receive a performance boost early next year

Why it matters: Spectre and Meltdown were seriously dangerous security flaws and companies rushed to secure their devices. Because most of the protections were quick patches rather than well-thought-out security systems, performance suffered as a result.

Gaming performance on Intel processors dropped by 3-4% on average, 5% at most. But SSD storage suffered the most, where people were complaining of up to 30% decreases in speed. Fortunately, by enabling the Retpoline mitigation strategy with the Windows 10 19H1 update coming early next year, performance will be uplifted to only ~1-2% below to where it was originally.

 

[DeepWeb]

My 4K read and write speeds took a massive hit due to this patch. Nobody has even exploited this and nobody ever will.

 

[Local Host]

This only affected Intel performance wise, so I'm far from worried.