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 |=================================================== Hackbench Count: 16 - Type: Process Seconds < Lower Is Better Default Mitigations . 29.91 |================================================== No Mitigations ...... 27.39 |============================================== 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 |=============================================== Systemd Total Boot Time Test: Total ms < Lower Is Better Default Mitigations . 30052 |================================================== No Mitigations ...... 28051 |=============================================== GIMP 2.10.6 Test: resize Seconds < Lower Is Better Default Mitigations . 7.27 |=================================================== No Mitigations ...... 7.29 |=================================================== 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 |================================================ 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 |================================================== Node.js Express HTTP Load Test Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Default Mitigations . 10512 |================================================= No Mitigations ...... 10817 |================================================== 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 |=============================================== PostgreSQL pgbench 10.3 Scaling: Buffer Test - Test: Normal Load - Mode: Read Only TPS > Higher Is Better Default Mitigations . 232333 |================================================ No Mitigations ...... 238649 |================================================= Node.js Octane Benchmark Score > Higher Is Better Default Mitigations . 54085 |================================================== No Mitigations ...... 54299 |==================================================