$499 AMD Ryzen 9 3900X Almost as Fast as $2000 Intel Core I9-9980XE

Re:$499 AMD Ryzen 9 3900X Almost as Fast as $2000 Intel Core... by pkaye on Friday June 28, 2019 @06:08PM (#20309170)

Also doesn't Intel have a lot more known security flaws?

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Re:$499 AMD Ryzen 9 3900X Almost as Fast as $2000 Intel Core... by IshKebab on Friday June 28, 2019 @08:01PM (#20309870)

One more, assuming you mean meltdown. But that's the easy one to fix.

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Re:$499 AMD Ryzen 9 3900X Almost as Fast as $2000 Intel Core... by old-gregg on Friday June 28, 2019 @08:20PM (#20309950)

Not true. Copy-pasting from my Ryzen terminal:

   $ spectre-meltdown-checker | grep "NOT VULNERABLE" | wc -l  
   12

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Re:$499 AMD Ryzen 9 3900X Almost as Fast as $2000 Intel Core... by butteroverflow on Saturday June 29, 2019 @03:00AM (#20311195)

So? The same script reports 11 lines on my 4 year old Haswell. It should read as "mitigated or not vulnerable" instead of simply "not vulnerable".

Edit: oh wait, it's actually 12 lines, the same as on your system. The reason it reported 11 on the first run is because KPTI has been disabled manually here.

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Re:$499 AMD Ryzen 9 3900X Almost as Fast as $2000 Intel Core... by old-gregg on Monday July 01, 2019 @05:26PM (#20329912)

:) I grepped for the wrong thing. Here's a better version:

   $ sudo spectre-meltdown-checker | grep "Not affected" | wc -l


   On Skylake: 0
   On Ryzen  : 10

I don't have an Ivy Bridge CPU to test this on, but AMD has suffered from _significantly_ fewer number of vulnerabilities than Intel, not just "one more" as the top commenter suggested.

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Re:$499 AMD Ryzen 9 3900X Almost as Fast as $2000 Intel Core... by pkaye on Friday June 28, 2019 @09:34PM (#20310248)

What about the recent one ZombieLoad?

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