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Re:Intel publishes misleading benchmarks against AMD by Twirrim on Wednesday November 06, 2019 @01:21PM (#21465321)
> In the contrary, Intel has a lot of failures the last 2 years. Spectre, meltdown, ... This isn't bad luck anymore, it's more like bad karma if you are religious.

AMD also suffered from Spectre and Meltdown. Admittedly not all the variants of it that have since come out, Intel has done way worse there, but AMD instances _are_ vulnerable if they lack microcode updates and OS patches.

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Re:Intel publishes misleading benchmarks against AMD by outworlder on Wednesday November 06, 2019 @01:28PM (#21465419)
According to this: https://www.techrepublic.com/article/spectre-and-meltdown-ex...

> Presently, 13 Spectre variants and 14 Meltdown variants have been identified. Initially, AMD processors were thought to be immune to Meltdown, though one variant has been successfully demonstrated on AMD systems.

ONE variant. So technically true. But the situation on the Intel side is far worse.

Intel got way too greedy with their optimizations.

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Re:Intel publishes misleading benchmarks against AMD by darkcoderrises on Wednesday November 06, 2019 @04:29PM (#21467570)
Yeah, but isn't being greedy with optimizations good?
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Re:Intel publishes misleading benchmarks against AMD by lifty on Wednesday November 06, 2019 @05:49PM (#21468442)
Not when it comes at the expense of security. Perhaps there are contexts where security is not important and this rule does not apply, but it clearly is a problem for CPUs.
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