The Combined Impact Of Mitigations On Cascade Lake Following Recent JCC Erratum + TAA
Written by Michael Larabel in Software on 24 November 2019 at 10:37 AM EST. Page 4 of 7. 14 Comments.
Intel's OSPray renderer was one of the cases where the mitigations really weren't affecting the performance up until losing Hyper Threading.
It was the same story with Embree too.
Coremark saw its performance hits from the new CPU microcode and then if disabling HT over security concerns.