vivster said:
Being unaffected by Spectre doesn't make my CPU faster, though. |
It's not about speed really, it's about security. Just know that no amount of encyrption will really safely store data on an affected PC, as a Spectre attack can glimpse sensitive information from RAM. Intel, instead of having to choose whether to impact perfomance with a patch or keep the systems up to speed decided that they'll just put an optional flag for program compilation, thus forcing programmers to choose if they want to implement the patch for eacg individual program. That's a complete lack of responsability on Intel's part and will probably mean over a decade worth of CPU's will remain vulnerable to Spectre.
If security is completely unimportant to you and you just want performance, Intel is atm still in the lead. But they're certainly atm less trustworthy then AMD.
