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Core 9000 series

Tom's is reported that, "The new lineup of processors also comes with in-built silicon mitigations for the Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities".
https://www.tomshardware.co.uk/intel-9th-generation-coffee-lake-refresh,news-59262.html

EDIT: LOL, Anandtech are not so convinced, "This would, theoretically, give Intel a chance to implement some of the hardware mitigations for Spectre/Meltdown. As of the time of writing, we have not been given any indication that this is the case, perhaps due to the core design being essentially a variant of Skylake in a new processor."
https://www.anandtech.com/show/13401/intel-9th-gen-cpus-9900k-9700k-9600k
 
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Short and to the point - I thought the event did what it said on the tin.

5Ghz out of the box on x number of cores for the 9900k for the same power draw as the 8700k is impressive. I know plenty sim racers who use VR that will be lapping these up.
 
stephenb said:
Short and to the point - I thought the event did what it said on the tin.

5Ghz out of the box on x number of cores for the 9900k for the same power draw as the 8700k is impressive. I know plenty sim racers who use VR that will be lapping these up.
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5GHz max boost on one core vs 4.7GHz max boost on one core isn't that impressive.
 
IT Troll said:
Tom's is reported that, "The new lineup of processors also comes with in-built silicon mitigations for the Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities".
https://www.tomshardware.co.uk/intel-9th-generation-coffee-lake-refresh,news-59262.html
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I don't think I believe that. All the more reliable info I've seen says the in-silicon mitigations won't be seen until the post-coffee lake architectures. See here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whiskey_Lake_(microarchitecture)

Building in those mitigations would require changing the architecture, and that's not something which is typically done within a simple refresh like this for Coffee Lake.
 
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