Quote the header for me, please, the part that says it’s a desktop CPU, please.
Also, seriously? Asrock is never coming near to my racks either. And the other one, c’mon with Audi jacks… these aren’t proper server boards. Same as AMD Ryzen is not a server CPU.
Intel CPUs became about 16% slower due to this year’s mitigations, while AMD CPUs were impacted only by 3%.
This difference is due to the fact that the latest “Zombieload” flaws only affect Intel CPUs.
Intel is losing ground in the CPU market, faster than ever before, and fixing the vulnerabilities are making the situation even worse.
The problem with CPU vulnerabilities is not only a problem of security but also a troubling matter that doesn’t allow engineers much practical margin for mitigating solutions. To put things simply, when a section of the CPU that allows it to process items faster is proven to be insecure, and by taking into account that there can’t be any hardware changes, the only way to deal with the problem is to shut the operation of that section down or make it vastly inefficient. In the most recent case of the ‘ZombieLoad’ flaw, as well as the rest of the Microarchitectural Data Sampling (MDS) mitigations, switching off hyperthreading and flushing buffer memory content more frequently are the ways to go.
These two changes are making Intel CPUs noticeably slower in their processing activities, enough to have a measurable impact. Expert Linux-based benchmarking website Phoronix run extensive tests on the impact of the MDS mitigations on heavy-intensity workloads. As expected, AMD hardware suffered a minor impact from the mitigations that came with the latest kernel update, as MDS vulnerabilities don’t affect AMD CPUs at all. The performance of Intel CPUs, however, has taken a considerable blow. Generally speaking, they have become 16% slower, without even calculating the additional impact that switching off hyper-threading would have.
3000 series (Zen 2) Epyc includes an 8 core part all the way to an 128 core part, which should be equivalent. And consumer Ryzen has always offered features that you can only really find on Intels enterprise products.
I don’t know why you’d still value professional/enterprise grade stuff as much as you do when you’ve been let down as much as you have. Do you really think it made a difference? People on Xeon 8110 Golds got fucked as much as some rando on a 2600K.