Intel Volleys New Sandy Bridge CPU Microcode

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Phoronix: Intel Volleys New Sandy Bridge CPU Microcode

For reasons currently unknown, Intel released new CPU microcode on Wednesday for their Sandy Bridge processors...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Intel-2020-New-SNB-CPU-Micro

[Axl_Mas]

Thank for the info! Sandy Bridge still works very well for everyday use, this is a good news that is still so well supported.
I will wait for your benchmarks, hoping no performances issue with this update...

[aufkrawall]

I will wait for your benchmarks, hoping no performances issue with this update...

You can most certainly bet on performance issues, as this non-transparent binary crap even does this for Skylake with certain workloads. I need to boot Linux without intel-ucode to achieve the same JavaScript performance in Firefox as on Windows, despite of setting mitigations=off.
Yes, it's really that craptacular what Intel does on Linux.

[Raka555]

Probably more performance mitigations ...

[jakubo]

could it have to do with the recent attacks on supercomputers like the SuperMUC in Munich?

[Veerappan]

Figures. My current main laptop is a Sandy Bridge i3 (as soon as I find an IdeaPad 7 14" with a Ryzen 4800u available that'll change). Hopefully this doesn't cripple an already aging laptop even more than the spinning rust drive already does.

[Guest]

What about ivy bridge? I've upgraded my personal laptop from sandy bridge myself, as the Intel HD 3000 is borderline unusable.

[NotMine999]

You can most certainly bet on performance issues, as this non-transparent binary crap even does this for Skylake with certain workloads. I need to boot Linux without intel-ucode to achieve the same JavaScript performance in Firefox as on Windows, despite of setting mitigations=off.
Yes, it's really that craptacular what Intel does on Linux.

I wonder what sort of seriously bloated JavaScript you are trying to run....

[HighValueWarrior]

Great ..... more slowdowns.My wifes FX 8350 is going to end up faster soon.

[torsionbar28]

Great ..... more slowdowns.My wifes FX 8350 is going to end up faster soon.

Still a perfectly decent and usable machine IMO.