How much will the meltdown patches cost the industry in electricity?

Posted by ashtonian on Friday January 26, 2018 @01:17PM
from the self-post dept.

based on the performance penalties

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Re:How much will the meltdown patches cost the industry in e... by 534b44a on Friday January 26, 2018 @02:13PM (#16242013)

Even though CPUs have been made more power efficient the last decade, I've read that there'll be a performance reduction of 30-50% on the intel ones.

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Re:How much will the meltdown patches cost the industry in e... by ashtonian on Friday January 26, 2018 @02:53PM (#16242337)

I thought it was more like 20-30% for specific applications, mostly database stuff.

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