nospectre Intel Core i7-7500U testing with a LENOVO Lenovo ideapad 710S-13IKB (3HCN12S2 BIOS) and Intel HD 620 3072MB on Gentoo/Linux via the Phoronix Test Suite. nospectre: Processor: Intel Core i7-7500U @ 2.40GHz (2 Cores / 4 Threads), Motherboard: LENOVO Lenovo ideapad 710S-13IKB (3HCN12S2 BIOS), Chipset: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v6/7th, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 1000GB Samsung SSD 960 EVO 1TB, Graphics: Intel HD 620 3072MB (1050MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC236, Network: Qualcomm Atheros QCA6174 802.11ac Wireless OS: Gentoo/Linux, Kernel: 4.20.2-gentoo (x86_64), Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.14.5, Display Driver: intel 2.99.917, OpenGL: 4.5 Mesa 18.3.1, Compiler: GCC 8.2.0 + Clang 7.0.1 + LLVM 7.0.1, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 spectre: Processor: Intel Core i7-7500U @ 3.50GHz (2 Cores / 4 Threads), Motherboard: LENOVO Lenovo ideapad 710S-13IKB (3HCN12S2 BIOS), Chipset: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v6/7th, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 1000GB Samsung SSD 960 EVO 1TB, Graphics: Intel HD 620 3072MB (1050MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC236, Network: Qualcomm Atheros QCA6174 802.11ac Wireless OS: Gentoo/Linux, Kernel: 4.20.2-gentoo (x86_64), Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.14.5, Display Driver: intel 2.99.917, OpenGL: 4.5 Mesa 18.3.1, Compiler: GCC 8.2.0 + Clang 7.0.1 + LLVM 7.0.1, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 PyBench 2018-02-16 Total For Average Test Times Milliseconds < Lower Is Better nospectre . 1667 |============================================================= spectre ... 1663 |=============================================================