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Some Minor Performance Hits Observed With New Intel Arrow Lake 0x118 CPU Microcode


Last week Intel released new CPU microcode for a number of processor generations due to the Training Solo vulnerability and Branch Privilege Injection

Last week Intel released new CPU microcode for a number of processor generations due to the Training Solo vulnerability and Branch Privilege Injection. In this article today are some benchmarks looking at the performance difference from simply upgrading to the new CPU microcode on an Intel Core Ultra 9 285K "Arrow Lake" desktop system. While new Linux kernel mitigations were also rolled out as part of the Training Solo vulnerability going public, the article today is just looking at the CPU microcode performance difference for the latest Arrow Lake processors.

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