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Re:Intel Confronts Potential ‘PR Nightmare’ With Reported Ch... by TheSwordsman on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @11:11AM (#16062157)
I wonder what implications this will have on those who run Intel in their gaming rigs. I'm due to refresh, and _was_ gonna invest in Intel as my CPU. But this seems pretty damning for that.

I assume the system calls to interact with the GPU, or to do any sort of I/O, are going to incur the performance overhead. So rendering frames, reading/writing from the network, and loading assets from the disk could all cause issues.

And this is just for gaming. Anyone using a cloud provider that's running on Intel needs to worry about similar things.

What a nightmare...

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Re:Intel Confronts Potential ‘PR Nightmare’ With Reported Ch... by a_humean on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @11:12AM (#16062165)
Apparently zero effect: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=x86-PTI-...
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Re:Intel Confronts Potential ‘PR Nightmare’ With Reported Ch... by QShift on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @11:17AM (#16062221)
Well, that's for Linux. We don't exactly know what effects such patches would have on other platforms yet. (do we?)
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Re:Intel Confronts Potential ‘PR Nightmare’ With Reported Ch... by rnhmjoj on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @11:32AM (#16062379)
To make things worse there is an increasing number of games running DRMs like Denuvo and VMProtect that cause a significant performance hit. I think these will be more heavily affected by the patch.
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Re:Intel Confronts Potential ‘PR Nightmare’ With Reported Ch... by obscurantist on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @05:01PM (#16065680)
I don't get why more developers don't take notes from CD Projekt.
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Re:Intel Confronts Potential ‘PR Nightmare’ With Reported Ch... by chrisper on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @11:33AM (#16062392)
Sadly I just bought an 8700k last week. Great CPU until next Tuesday? (Windows Patch Day)

Though even if I lose some percentage, it will still outrun AMD on single core applications (and probably also multi core ones).

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