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SPECTRE PERFORMANCE UPDATE
AMD's official word is that one of the two Spectre variants doesn't impact them at all, while the one that does is easily resolved by a software update that shouldn't impact performance in any meaningful way. This is still primarily an Intel CPU flaw.
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The firmware update needed to correct it mitigates the problem, but doesn't completely address the vulnerability. Because Spectre is the result of a fundamental CPU design flaw, it can't be fixed, at least not entirely. However the Windows patch only addressed Meltdown, and by now you've no doubt become familiar of the second vulnerability called Spectre. Since then other fellow tech media outlets have published similar findings. There were however a few troubling results for NVMe storage devices, mostly impacting 4K read performance. We ran tests that made sense from the perspective of a desktop user and we found there was virtually no impact on gaming performance and no impact for content creators. If you read our previous article on the matter, it came within 24 hours of the emergency Windows 10 patch release intended to address the Meltdown vulnerability.
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Following up to our initial testing of the Meltdown patch for Windows 10, today we're looking deeper into the matter by testing a patched desktop system, by addressing the two now famous security flaws, Meltdown and Spectre, by applying the OS-level patch and a firmware update, more precisely a motherboard BIOS update.