Intel: After installing Specter / Meltdown vulnerability patch your computer will slow down to 10%

This article is in the series: Overview of vulnerabilities on Intel, AMD, ARM chips: Meltdown and Specter. Please read all the articles in the series to get information as well as take steps to protect your device against these two serious security holes.

After evaluating performance changes in 6th, 7th and 8th generation Intel-powered computers running Windows 10, Intel has concluded that your computer will be slow from 6 to 10 % after installing Specter / Meltdown fix.

Among the least affected are the 6% (Kaby Lake, Coffee Lake) and SSD models, which are only 6% slower, and the 7 th generation Kaby Lake-H mobile chips will drop by 7% of performance and end use of 6th generation Skylake-S chip is about 8% slower.

However, in some cases the user may not recognize this difference. You may notice a sharp decrease in speed when running heavy applications. For example, users who use complex JavaScript-related web applications can be quite impacted, up to 10%.

A few days ago, Intel admitted that computers would be slowed after users patched on-chip vulnerabilities that allowed hackers to attack remote computers. Intel claims that, at the moment, there has not been any information about the Specter / Meltdown vulnerability being exploited to steal customer information but to ensure safety, everyone should install it. patches.

See more:

1. Origin of the name and logo of Meltdown and Specter - Melting and Ghosts
2. How to know if your Windows computer is affected by Meltdown and Specter?
3. Microsoft's patch of Meltdown and Specter makes Windows Phone unstable, causing a blue screen error on the PC