nospectre Intel Core i5-8250U testing with a HP 83B2 (Q78 Ver. 01.04.00 BIOS) and Intel UHD 620 3GB on ManjaroLinux 18.0.3 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 test7: Processor: Intel Core i5-8250U @ 3.40GHz (4 Cores / 8 Threads), Motherboard: HP 83B2 (Q78 Ver. 01.04.00 BIOS), Chipset: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v6/7th, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 256GB SAMSUNG MZVLB256HAHQ-000H1, Graphics: Intel UHD 620 3GB (1100MHz), Audio: Conexant CX8200, Monitor: Acer CB271HK, Network: Intel Connection + Intel Wireless 8265 / 8275 OS: ManjaroLinux 18.0.3, Kernel: 4.20.11-1-MANJARO (x86_64), Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.15.1, Display Server: X Server 1.20.3, Display Driver: intel 2.99.917, OpenGL: 4.5 Mesa 18.3.3, Compiler: GCC 8.2.1 20181127, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 5760x2160 PyBench 2018-02-16 Total For Average Test Times Milliseconds < Lower Is Better nospectre . 1667 |============================================================= spectre ... 1663 |============================================================= test7 ..... 1380 |==================================================