Core i9 9900K Spectre Meltdown Mitigations
Spectre and Meltdown benchmarks by Michael Larabel for a future article on Phoronix.com


Default Mitigations: 

	Processor: Intel Core i9-9900K @ 5.00GHz (8 Cores / 16 Threads), Motherboard: ASUS PRIME Z390-A (0506 BIOS), Chipset: Intel Cannon Lake PCH Shared SRAM, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: Samsung SSD 970 EVO 250GB, Graphics: AMD Radeon RX Vega 8GB, Audio: Realtek ALC1220, Monitor: Acer B286HK, Network: Intel Connection

	OS: Ubuntu 18.10, Kernel: 4.19.0-041900-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.30.1, Display Server: X Server 1.20.1, Display Driver: amdgpu 18.1.0, OpenGL: 4.5 Mesa 18.2.2 (LLVM 7.0.0), Compiler: GCC 8.2.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160

No Mitigations: 

	Processor: Intel Core i9-9900K @ 5.00GHz (8 Cores / 16 Threads), Motherboard: ASUS PRIME Z390-A (0506 BIOS), Chipset: Intel Cannon Lake PCH Shared SRAM, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: Samsung SSD 970 EVO 250GB, Graphics: AMD Radeon RX Vega 8GB, Audio: Realtek ALC1220, Monitor: Acer B286HK, Network: Intel Connection

	OS: Ubuntu 18.10, Kernel: 4.19.0-041900-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.30.1, Display Server: X Server 1.20.1, Display Driver: amdgpu 18.1.0, OpenGL: 4.5 Mesa 18.2.2 (LLVM 7.0.0), Compiler: GCC 8.2.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160


Compile Bench 0.6
Test: Initial Create
MB/s > Higher Is Better
Default Mitigations . 672 |=================================================
No Mitigations ...... 716 |====================================================


Compile Bench 0.6
Test: Read Compiled Tree
MB/s > Higher Is Better
Default Mitigations . 4128 |=================================================
No Mitigations ...... 4282 |===================================================


Node.js Express HTTP Load Test

Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better
Default Mitigations . 10512 |=================================================
No Mitigations ...... 10817 |==================================================


Node.js Octane Benchmark

Score > Higher Is Better
Default Mitigations . 54085 |==================================================
No Mitigations ...... 54299 |==================================================


Hackbench
Count: 16 - Type: Process
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Default Mitigations . 29.91 |==================================================
No Mitigations ...... 27.39 |==============================================


PostgreSQL pgbench 10.3
Scaling: Buffer Test - Test: Normal Load - Mode: Read Only
TPS > Higher Is Better
Default Mitigations . 232333 |================================================
No Mitigations ...... 238649 |=================================================


GIMP 2.10.6
Test: resize
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Default Mitigations . 7.27 |===================================================
No Mitigations ...... 7.29 |===================================================


Redis 4.0.8
Test: GET
Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better
Default Mitigations . 2926835 |===========================================
No Mitigations ...... 3236314 |================================================


Redis 4.0.8
Test: SET
Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better
Default Mitigations . 2265871 |================================================
No Mitigations ...... 2224709 |===============================================


Stress-NG 0.07.26
Test: Socket Activity
Bogo Ops/s > Higher Is Better
Default Mitigations . 7485 |============================================
No Mitigations ...... 8643 |===================================================


Stress-NG 0.07.26
Test: Context Switching
Bogo Ops/s > Higher Is Better
Default Mitigations . 5371104 |=======================================
No Mitigations ...... 6626411 |================================================


Stress-NG 0.07.26
Test: System V Message Passing
Bogo Ops/s > Higher Is Better
Default Mitigations . 9936007  |==========================================
No Mitigations ...... 11119268 |===============================================


Memcached mcperf 1.5.10
Method: Get
Operations Per Second > Higher Is Better
Default Mitigations . 166507 |===========================================
No Mitigations ...... 187716 |=================================================


Memcached mcperf 1.5.10
Method: Set
Operations Per Second > Higher Is Better
Default Mitigations . 98846  |===========================================
No Mitigations ...... 113223 |=================================================


NGINX Benchmark 1.9.9
Static Web Page Serving
Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better
Default Mitigations . 50245 |============================================
No Mitigations ...... 56815 |==================================================


Systemd Total Boot Time
Test: Total
ms < Lower Is Better
Default Mitigations . 30052 |==================================================
No Mitigations ...... 28051 |===============================================


OSBench
Test: Create Files
us Per Event < Lower Is Better
Default Mitigations . 10.39 |==================================================
No Mitigations ...... 9.23  |============================================


OSBench
Test: Create Threads
us Per Event < Lower Is Better
Default Mitigations . 8.14 |===================================================
No Mitigations ...... 7.70 |================================================


OSBench
Test: Launch Programs
us Per Event < Lower Is Better
Default Mitigations . 24.12 |==================================================
No Mitigations ...... 24.02 |==================================================


OSBench
Test: Create Processes
us Per Event < Lower Is Better
Default Mitigations . 17.23 |==================================================
No Mitigations ...... 16.57 |================================================