The Spectre Mitigation Performance Impact On AMD Ryzen 5000 "Zen 3" Processors

Written by Michael Larabel in Processors on 2 December 2020 at 03:29 PM EST. Page 4 of 6. 8 Comments.
AMD Ryzen 5000 Zen 3 Mitigation Test
AMD Ryzen 5000 Zen 3 Mitigation Test
AMD Ryzen 5000 Zen 3 Mitigation Test

As we've been used to seeing over the past three years, it really depends on the particular workload for how impact it is by Spectre mitigations (and Meltdown, L1TF, TAA, MDS, and others on Intel CPUs).

AMD Ryzen 5000 Zen 3 Mitigation Test
AMD Ryzen 5000 Zen 3 Mitigation Test
AMD Ryzen 5000 Zen 3 Mitigation Test
AMD Ryzen 5000 Zen 3 Mitigation Test

Ultimately whether you leave your CPU at the defaults or if disabling the Spectre mitigations, the Ryzen 5000 series performance continues to be terrific.

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