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Hello, I need to build a powerful workstation for professional research work. I planned to build a high-end workstation using the i9-7900X but I am concerned about potential performance lost due to Meltdown and Sprectre. My work involves computationally intensive simulations that involves CUDA computations using multiple high-end GPUs. From a thread, I read a -20% performance drop. That is a lot. I know all CPUs are affected. Does the 8700K also suffers from such big performance lost? I don't mind paying for the 7900X as it is work related. However, if the performance drop is so much, I wonder if I should go ahead to buy the components to build the i9-7900X system or just build a i7-8700K system which is $1000 less.
I will use Ubuntu Linux on this workstation most of the time.
Any advice appreciated. Thanks.
I will use Ubuntu Linux on this workstation most of the time.
Any advice appreciated. Thanks.