Intel Ice Lake "0x78" Microcode Update Having Small But Measurable Performance Hits

Written by Michael Larabel in Software on 10 May 2020 at 07:39 PM EDT. Page 3 of 4. 15 Comments.
For a lot of different tests I'm seeing slightly lower performance out of the Ice Lake 0x78 microcode.

Python and PHP were among the language tests with slight impairments.


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