the most mega LOL news ever: advertise that your processors are not affected by vulnerabilities and yet deliberately compromise it with a backdoor (PSP)

Manoathe most mega LOL news ever: advertise that your processors are not affected by vulnerabilities and yet deliberately compromise it with a backdoor (PSP)

So, what if your processor is compromised and you compromise it further with the IME, how do you call that?

lel man sounds to me like the same thing :)

Manoathe most mega LOL news ever: advertise that your processors are not affected by vulnerabilities and yet deliberately compromise it with a backdoor (PSP)

lol at the attempt at obfuscation.

Intel CPU Dies should be round with the amount of corner cutting they have been doing.

Manoathe most mega LOL news ever: advertise that your processors are not affected by vulnerabilities and yet deliberately compromise it with a backdoor (PSP)

There is worst : your processors are affected by vulnerabilities and yet deliberately compromise it with a backdoor, then say these vulnerabilities can be avoided by lowering performance by 30%.

Manoathe most mega LOL news ever: advertise that your processors are not affected by vulnerabilities and yet deliberately compromise it with a backdoor (PSP)

Are you forgetting Intel Management Engine???

Why does MDS tool say SMT is vulnerable ? here Ryzen 1600x

XuperWhy does MDS tool say SMT is vulnerable ? here Ryzen 1600x

Simultaneous Multithreading is the name of the technology

Hyper Threading is just branding.

CrackongThere is worst : your processors are affected by vulnerabilities and yet deliberately compromise it with a backdoor, then say these vulnerabilities can be avoided by lowering performance by 30%.

Please cite that 30% claim, and bear in mind that the performance impacts of the patches have REDUCED over time, restoring much of the lost performance.

Additionally, the worst performance regression I am aware of at ANY time, in any workload as a result of any Spectre/Meltdown patch was 24% impact - and that was specifically on one piece of software: postgres.

Since that time, there have been numerous new patches and revisions, and performance impact has been reduced in all cases, to either no impact at all (for most consumer tasks), or low single digit % hits for anything professional or datacentre.

Microsoft (not Intel) have also stated that their 1H-2019 Windows 10 patch will reduce the performance impact of all Spectre and Meltdown mitigations to "Noise level" - IE, low impact than could be explained by simple test variance, thus eliminating the issue related to those patches entirely. (Linux has had retpoline enabled for a few months now btw, so is also no longer significantly impacted by spectre patch performance regressions)

www.techpowerup.com/248714/windows-10-1h-2019-update-to-reduce-performance-impact-of-spectre-v2-mitigations

Medallishlol at the attempt at obfuscation.

Intel CPU Dies should be round with the amount of corner cutting they have been doing.

I genuinely love this answer :roll:

GlacierNinePlease cite that 30% claim, and bear in mind that the performance impacts of the patches have REDUCED over time, restoring much of the lost performance.

Additionally, the worst performance regression I am aware of at ANY time, in any workload as a result of any Spectre/Meltdown patch was 24% impact - and that was specifically on one piece of software: postgres.

Since that time, there have been numerous new patches and revisions, and performance impact has been reduced in all cases, to either no impact at all (for most consumer tasks), or low single digit % hits for anything professional or datacentre.

Microsoft (not Intel) have also stated that their 1H-2019 Windows 10 patch will reduce the performance impact of all Spectre and Meltdown mitigations to "Noise level" - IE, low impact than could be explained by simple test variance, thus eliminating the issue related to those patches entirely. (Linux has had retpoline enabled for a few months now btw, so is also no longer significantly impacted by spectre patch performance regressions)

www.techpowerup.com/248714/windows-10-1h-2019-update-to-reduce-performance-impact-of-spectre-v2-mitigations

I'm thinking he's talking about disabling hyperthreading suggestion Intel gave for 7th gen or older processors. Obviously this is just my guess.

And I almost went for an i3 8100.

ExV6kI genuinely love this answer :roll:

Cpu production wafers are round.

Are ham handed MS updates forcing the patch for Intel vulnerabilities on AMD systems?

Divide OverflowAre ham handed MS updates forcing the patch for Intel vulnerabilities on AMD systems?

There's no way to confirm it, but that might be the case. Linus had a very heated discussion with Intel about the Linux kernel's mitigations during the first Spectre patches, he was screaming at Intel for trying to force the patch on all CPUs.

GlacierNinePlease cite that 30% claim.

Please follow Intel's suggestion and disable HT in your i7 CPUs for maximum security, enjoy your 30% reduced performance and your newborn i5 CPU.


(Edit) I am sorry, I was wrong, it should be 40%.
Mac Performance Drops Up to 40% With Intel Vulnerability Mitigations

"We believe [...] . We have not been able to demonstrate [...]".
Well, its doesn't sound great, but it's good enough.

Manoathe most mega LOL news ever: advertise that your processors are not affected by vulnerabilities and yet deliberately compromise it with a backdoor (PSP)

There is no more evidence the PSP is a backdoor than the Intel ME.

They both are just really bad ideas.

Crackong(Edit) I am sorry, I was wrong, it should be 40%.
Mac Performance Drops Up to 40% With Intel Vulnerability Mitigations

Yeah, we aren't mac users but cool story bro.

GoldenXThere's no way to confirm it

Run MDS tool. You can confirm it and no, it looks like right now it needs a microcode command to enable mitigations. AMD is unlikely to release this command in it's AGESA since it does not appear to think it needs it. I believe them to be correct, but the world is crazy as of late.

XuperWhy does MDS tool say SMT is vulnerable ? here Ryzen 1600x

Probably looking at the Spectre flags. In which case: You probably are vulnerable. What AGESA?