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Windows 10: No Mitigations Processor: Intel Core i9-7960X @ 2.81GHz (16 Cores / 32 Threads), Motherboard: MSI X299 SLI PLUS (MS-7A93) (1.A0 BIOS), Memory: 4 x 4096 MB 3000MHz, Disk: 238GB INTEL SSDPEKKW256G8, Graphics: AMD Radeon RX 550 2GB, Network: Intel I211 Gigabit Connection
OS: Microsoft Windows 10 Pro Build 17763, Kernel: 10.0 (x86_64), Display Driver: 22.19.677.257, OpenCL: OpenCL 2.0 AMD-APP (2442.9), File-System: NTFS, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160
Windows 10: Meltdown Mitigations Windows 10: Spectre + Meltdown Mitigations OS: Microsoft Windows 10 Pro Build 17763, Kernel: 10.0 (x86_64), Display Driver: 22.19.677.257, OpenCL: OpenCL 2.0 AMD-APP (2442.9), Compiler: GCC 7.1.0, File-System: NTFS, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160
Windows 8: Spectre + Meltdown Mitigations Windows 8: Meltdown Mitigations Windows 8: No Mitigations Processor: Intel Core i9-7960X @ 2.80GHz (16 Cores / 32 Threads)Motherboard: MSI X299 SLI PLUS (MS-7A93) (1.A0 BIOS), Memory: 4 x 4096 MBDisk: 238GB NVMe INTEL SSDPEKKW25Graphics: Microsoft Basic DisplayNetwork: Intel I211 Gigabit Connection + ASIX AX88772B USB2.0 to Fast + Microsoft ISATAP + LAN7500 USB 2.0 to 10/100/1000
OS: Microsoft Windows 8.1 Pro Build 9600, Kernel: 6.3 (x86_64), Display Driver: 6.3.9600.16384, Compiler: GCC 7.1.0, File-System: NTFS, Screen Resolution: 1024x768
BlogBench BlogBench is designed to replicate the load of a real-world busy file server by stressing the file-system with multiple threads of random reads, writes, and rewrites. The behavior is mimicked of that of a blog by creating blogs with content and pictures, modifying blog posts, adding comments to these blogs, and then reading the content of the blogs. All of these blogs generated are created locally with fake content and pictures. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
Windows 10 Windows 8 OpenBenchmarking.org Final Score, More Is Better BlogBench 1.1 Test: Read Meltdown Mitigations No Mitigations Spectre + Meltdown Mitigations 2K 4K 6K 8K 10K SE +/- 96.00, N = 2 SE +/- 365.50, N = 2 SE +/- 23.50, N = 2 SE +/- 145.00, N = 2 SE +/- 49.50, N = 2 SE +/- 228.50, N = 2 8504 8162 7549 7955 7693 7246
Windows 10 Windows 8 OpenBenchmarking.org Final Score, More Is Better BlogBench 1.1 Test: Write Meltdown Mitigations No Mitigations Spectre + Meltdown Mitigations 60 120 180 240 300 SE +/- 3.00, N = 2 SE +/- 0.50, N = 2 SE +/- 3.00, N = 2 SE +/- 4.00, N = 2 SE +/- 1.00, N = 2 261 258 228 230 226 211
Flexible IO Tester Fio is an advanced disk benchmark that depends upon the kernel's AIO access library. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
Windows 8 Windows 10 OpenBenchmarking.org IOPS, More Is Better Flexible IO Tester 3.1 Type: Random Write - IO Engine: Linux AIO - Buffered: Yes - Direct: No - Block Size: 4KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory No Mitigations Meltdown Mitigations Spectre + Meltdown Mitigations 70K 140K 210K 280K 350K SE +/- 4000.00, N = 2 SE +/- 8000.00, N = 2 SE +/- 3500.00, N = 2 SE +/- 500.00, N = 2 SE +/- 2000.00, N = 2 SE +/- 1500.00, N = 2 312000 285000 215500 185500 148000 127500
Diskspd Windows 8 Windows 10 OpenBenchmarking.org IOPS, More Is Better Diskspd 2.0.21 Threads Per Target: 1 - Write Requests (Percent): 0 - Read Only - File Size: 100M - Block Size: 2MB No Mitigations Meltdown Mitigations Spectre + Meltdown Mitigations 200 400 600 800 1000 SE +/- 20.37, N = 2 SE +/- 18.85, N = 2 SE +/- 13.53, N = 2 SE +/- 2.03, N = 2 SE +/- 0.25, N = 2 SE +/- 6.97, N = 2 1091 688 680 862 858 849
Flexible IO Tester Fio is an advanced disk benchmark that depends upon the kernel's AIO access library. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
Windows 8 Windows 10 OpenBenchmarking.org MB/s, More Is Better Flexible IO Tester 3.1 Type: Random Write - IO Engine: Linux AIO - Buffered: Yes - Direct: No - Block Size: 4KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory No Mitigations Meltdown Mitigations Spectre + Meltdown Mitigations 300 600 900 1200 1500 SE +/- 16.50, N = 2 SE +/- 30.50, N = 2 SE +/- 13.50, N = 2 SE +/- 1.50, N = 2 SE +/- 7.00, N = 2 SE +/- 5.50, N = 2 1218 1113 843 725 579 500
Diskspd Windows 8 Windows 10 OpenBenchmarking.org MB/s, More Is Better Diskspd 2.0.21 Threads Per Target: 1 - Write Requests (Percent): 0 - Read Only - File Size: 100M - Block Size: 2MB No Mitigations Meltdown Mitigations Spectre + Meltdown Mitigations 500 1000 1500 2000 2500 SE +/- 40.72, N = 2 SE +/- 37.69, N = 2 SE +/- 27.06, N = 2 SE +/- 4.06, N = 2 SE +/- 0.50, N = 2 SE +/- 13.94, N = 2 2182 1375 1360 1725 1717 1699
IOzone The IOzone benchmark tests the hard disk drive / file-system performance. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
Windows 8 Windows 10 OpenBenchmarking.org MB/s, More Is Better IOzone 3.465 Record Size: 4Kb - File Size: 4GB - Disk Test: Read Performance No Mitigations Meltdown Mitigations Spectre + Meltdown Mitigations 400 800 1200 1600 2000 SE +/- 2.79, N = 2 SE +/- 6.52, N = 2 SE +/- 1.53, N = 2 SE +/- 1.37, N = 2 SE +/- 0.59, N = 2 SE +/- 5.91, N = 2 2060 1878 1293 1267 1213 895
Flexible IO Tester Fio is an advanced disk benchmark that depends upon the kernel's AIO access library. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
Windows 8 Windows 10 OpenBenchmarking.org MB/s, More Is Better Flexible IO Tester 3.1 Type: Random Read - IO Engine: Windows AIO - Buffered: Yes - Direct: No - Block Size: 2MB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory No Mitigations Meltdown Mitigations Spectre + Meltdown Mitigations 1600 3200 4800 6400 8000 SE +/- 6.50, N = 2 SE +/- 5.50, N = 2 SE +/- 5.50, N = 2 SE +/- 5.50, N = 2 SE +/- 2.00, N = 2 SE +/- 4.00, N = 2 7408 7366 7318 3674 3650 3556
Windows 8 Windows 10 OpenBenchmarking.org MB/s, More Is Better Flexible IO Tester 3.1 Type: Random Write - IO Engine: Windows AIO - Buffered: Yes - Direct: No - Block Size: 2MB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory No Mitigations Meltdown Mitigations Spectre + Meltdown Mitigations 1200 2400 3600 4800 6000 SE +/- 55.50, N = 2 SE +/- 242.50, N = 2 SE +/- 220.50, N = 2 SE +/- 2.00, N = 2 SE +/- 23.50, N = 2 SE +/- 2.00, N = 2 5797 5459 5446 2810 2747 2707
Windows 8 Windows 10 OpenBenchmarking.org MB/s, More Is Better Flexible IO Tester 3.1 Type: Sequential Read - IO Engine: Windows AIO - Buffered: Yes - Direct: No - Block Size: 2MB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory No Mitigations Meltdown Mitigations Spectre + Meltdown Mitigations 1600 3200 4800 6400 8000 SE +/- 8.00, N = 2 SE +/- 0.50, N = 2 SE +/- 5.00, N = 2 SE +/- 52.50, N = 2 SE +/- 3.50, N = 2 SE +/- 44.00, N = 2 7385 7373 7322 3647 3586 3565
Windows 8 Windows 10 OpenBenchmarking.org MB/s, More Is Better Flexible IO Tester 3.1 Type: Sequential Write - IO Engine: Windows AIO - Buffered: Yes - Direct: No - Block Size: 2MB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory No Mitigations Meltdown Mitigations Spectre + Meltdown Mitigations 600 1200 1800 2400 3000 SE +/- 11.00, N = 2 SE +/- 17.00, N = 2 SE +/- 12.00, N = 2 SE +/- 1.50, N = 2 SE +/- 15.50, N = 2 SE +/- 4.00, N = 2 2979 2951 2923 2777 2754 2680
7-Zip Compression This is a test of 7-Zip using p7zip with its integrated benchmark feature or upstream 7-Zip for the Windows x64 build. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
Windows 8 Windows 10 OpenBenchmarking.org MIPS, More Is Better 7-Zip Compression 16.02 Compress Speed Test No Mitigations Meltdown Mitigations Spectre + Meltdown Mitigations 20K 40K 60K 80K 100K SE +/- 307.50, N = 2 SE +/- 620.00, N = 2 SE +/- 70.50, N = 2 SE +/- 253.50, N = 2 SE +/- 342.00, N = 2 SE +/- 760.00, N = 2 84503 83332 82630 75399 73105 73047
Redis Windows 8 Windows 10 OpenBenchmarking.org Requests Per Second, More Is Better Redis 3.2.1 Test: SET No Mitigations Meltdown Mitigations Spectre + Meltdown Mitigations 200K 400K 600K 800K 1000K SE +/- 199.81, N = 2 SE +/- 12353.19, N = 2 SE +/- 6690.94, N = 2 SE +/- 8263.91, N = 2 SE +/- 2862.44, N = 2 SE +/- 10459.94, N = 2 1154135 1134436 1083465 715377 711781 655496
Windows 8 Windows 10 OpenBenchmarking.org Requests Per Second, More Is Better Redis 3.2.1 Test: GET No Mitigations Meltdown Mitigations Spectre + Meltdown Mitigations 300K 600K 900K 1200K 1500K SE +/- 22383.81, N = 2 SE +/- 3665.88, N = 2 SE +/- 7023.63, N = 2 SE +/- 14285.03, N = 2 SE +/- 4260.03, N = 2 SE +/- 442.97, N = 2 1543296 1537879 1406604 992663 983980 897465
PHPBench PHPBench is a benchmark suite for PHP. It performs a large number of simple tests in order to bench various aspects of the PHP interpreter. PHPBench can be used to compare hardware, operating systems, PHP versions, PHP accelerators and caches, compiler options, etc. The number of iterations used is 1,000,000. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
Windows 8 Windows 10 OpenBenchmarking.org Score, More Is Better PHPBench 0.8.1 PHP Benchmark Suite Meltdown Mitigations Spectre + Meltdown Mitigations No Mitigations 80K 160K 240K 320K 400K SE +/- 4.00, N = 2 SE +/- 1045.50, N = 2 SE +/- 1741.00, N = 2 SE +/- 1166.50, N = 2 SE +/- 1444.50, N = 2 SE +/- 1374.50, N = 2 367800 362516 361923 218575 216597 212225
Geekbench Windows 10 Windows 8 OpenBenchmarking.org Score, More Is Better Geekbench 4.3.3 Test: Multi Core No Mitigations Meltdown Mitigations Spectre + Meltdown Mitigations 9K 18K 27K 36K 45K SE +/- 60.50, N = 2 SE +/- 21.00, N = 2 SE +/- 167.00, N = 2 SE +/- 151.00, N = 2 SE +/- 158.50, N = 2 SE +/- 124.50, N = 2 41760 41341 41084 39378 39265 38725
Windows 10 Windows 8 OpenBenchmarking.org Score, More Is Better Geekbench 4.3.3 Test: Single Core No Mitigations Meltdown Mitigations Spectre + Meltdown Mitigations 1100 2200 3300 4400 5500 SE +/- 1.50, N = 2 SE +/- 3.50, N = 2 SE +/- 6.50, N = 2 SE +/- 4.50, N = 2 SE +/- 8.50, N = 2 SE +/- 3.50, N = 2 5300 5263 5256 5168 5109 5098
OpenSSL Windows 8 Windows 10 OpenBenchmarking.org Signs Per Second, More Is Better OpenSSL 1.0.1g RSA 4096-bit Performance Spectre + Meltdown Mitigations No Mitigations Meltdown Mitigations 40 80 120 160 200 SE +/- 0.15, N = 2 SE +/- 0.10, N = 2 SE +/- 1.15, N = 2 SE +/- 0.05, N = 2 SE +/- 0.05, N = 2 SE +/- 0.05, N = 2 182 181 181 134 134 131
Ethr Ethr is a cross-platform Golang-written network performance measurement tool developed by Microsoft that is capable of testing multiple protocols and different measurements. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
OpenBenchmarking.org Microseconds, Fewer Is Better Ethr 2019-01-02 Server Address: 127.0.0.1 - Protocol: TCP - Test: Latency - Threads: 8 No Mitigations Meltdown Mitigations Spectre + Meltdown Mitigations 6 12 18 24 30 SE +/- 0.08, N = 2 SE +/- 0.39, N = 2 SE +/- 0.08, N = 2 14.33 15.48 23.98 MAX: 998.6 MAX: 997.76 MAX: 998.15
OpenBenchmarking.org Microseconds, Fewer Is Better Ethr 2019-01-02 Server Address: 127.0.0.1 - Protocol: TCP - Test: Latency - Threads: 16 No Mitigations Meltdown Mitigations Spectre + Meltdown Mitigations 6 12 18 24 30 SE +/- 0.12, N = 2 SE +/- 0.04, N = 2 SE +/- 0.12, N = 2 14.20 15.02 24.06 MAX: 998.05 MAX: 998.25 MAX: 997.6
DaCapo Benchmark This test runs the DaCapo Benchmarks written in Java and intended to test system/CPU performance. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
Windows 8 Windows 10 OpenBenchmarking.org msec, Fewer Is Better DaCapo Benchmark 9.12-MR1 Java Test: H2 Spectre + Meltdown Mitigations No Mitigations Meltdown Mitigations 800 1600 2400 3200 4000 SE +/- 47.00, N = 2 SE +/- 219.00, N = 2 SE +/- 101.50, N = 2 SE +/- 25.00, N = 2 SE +/- 17.50, N = 2 SE +/- 93.00, N = 2 3141 3313 3337 3549 3728 3794
Windows 8 Windows 10 OpenBenchmarking.org msec, Fewer Is Better DaCapo Benchmark 9.12-MR1 Java Test: Jython No Mitigations Spectre + Meltdown Mitigations Meltdown Mitigations 1300 2600 3900 5200 6500 SE +/- 16.00, N = 2 SE +/- 54.50, N = 2 SE +/- 63.00, N = 2 SE +/- 121.00, N = 2 SE +/- 30.50, N = 2 3907 4016 4024 5560 5617 5853
Go Benchmarks Benchmark for monitoring real time performance of the Go implementation for HTTP, JSON and garbage testing per iteration. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
Windows 10 Windows 8 OpenBenchmarking.org Nanoseconds/Operation, Fewer Is Better Go Benchmarks Test: http Meltdown Mitigations No Mitigations Spectre + Meltdown Mitigations 1600 3200 4800 6400 8000 SE +/- 26.50, N = 2 SE +/- 13.50, N = 2 SE +/- 78.50, N = 2 SE +/- 64.00, N = 2 SE +/- 25.00, N = 2 4401 4413 4677 6680 6789 7394
OSBench OSBench is a collection of micro-benchmarks for measuring operating system primitives like time to create threads/processes, launching programs, creating files, and memory allocation. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
Windows 8 Windows 10 OpenBenchmarking.org Ns Per Event, Fewer Is Better OSBench Test: Memory Allocations No Mitigations Meltdown Mitigations Spectre + Meltdown Mitigations 30 60 90 120 150 SE +/- 0.33, N = 2 SE +/- 0.39, N = 2 SE +/- 0.04, N = 2 SE +/- 0.06, N = 2 SE +/- 0.71, N = 2 SE +/- 0.65, N = 2 63.45 73.17 75.99 125.00 130.00 138.00
t-test1 Windows 8 Windows 10 OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better t-test1 2017-01-13 Threads: 2 No Mitigations Meltdown Mitigations Spectre + Meltdown Mitigations 60 120 180 240 300 SE +/- 0.54, N = 2 SE +/- 0.31, N = 2 SE +/- 0.21, N = 2 SE +/- 0.09, N = 2 SE +/- 0.19, N = 2 SE +/- 0.13, N = 2 160 174 221 180 197 280
Perl Benchmarks Perl benchmark suite that can be used to compare the relative speed of different versions of perl. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
Windows 8 Windows 10 OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better Perl Benchmarks Test: Interpreter No Mitigations Meltdown Mitigations Spectre + Meltdown Mitigations 0.0034 0.0068 0.0102 0.0136 0.017 SE +/- 0.00022825, N = 2 SE +/- 0.00010482, N = 2 SE +/- 0.00032087, N = 2 SE +/- 0.00008812, N = 2 SE +/- 0.00006256, N = 2 SE +/- 0.00009105, N = 2 0.01090204 0.01134052 0.01310041 0.01298367 0.01363817 0.01507877
SQLite This is a simple benchmark of SQLite. At present this test profile just measures the time to perform a pre-defined number of insertions on an indexed database. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
Windows 10 Windows 8 OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better SQLite 3.22 Timed SQLite Insertions Meltdown Mitigations No Mitigations Spectre + Meltdown Mitigations 20 40 60 80 100 SE +/- 7.06, N = 2 SE +/- 0.05, N = 2 SE +/- 0.36, N = 2 SE +/- 15.80, N = 2 SE +/- 1.09, N = 2 SE +/- 0.14, N = 2 50.52 62.58 66.55 75.96 93.48 93.97
Blender Blender is an open-source 3D creation software project. This test is of Blender's Cycles benchmark with various sample files. GPU computing via OpenCL or CUDA is supported. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
Windows 8 Windows 10 OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better Blender 2.79a Blend File: BMW27 - Compute: CPU-Only Meltdown Mitigations Spectre + Meltdown Mitigations No Mitigations 50 100 150 200 250 152 153 153 203 206 211
LAME MP3 Encoding LAME is an MP3 encoder licensed under the LGPL. This test measures the time required to encode a WAV file to MP3 format. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
Windows 8 Windows 10 OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better LAME MP3 Encoding 3.100 WAV To MP3 No Mitigations Spectre + Meltdown Mitigations Meltdown Mitigations 4 8 12 16 20 SE +/- 0.02, N = 2 SE +/- 0.03, N = 2 SE +/- 0.01, N = 2 SE +/- 0.02, N = 2 SE +/- 0.01, N = 2 SE +/- 0.03, N = 2 11.19 11.23 11.23 15.18 15.28 15.57
Git This test measures the time needed to carry out some sample Git operations on an example, static repository that happens to be a copy of the GNOME GTK tool-kit repository. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
Windows 8 Windows 10 OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better Git Time To Complete Common Git Commands Meltdown Mitigations No Mitigations Spectre + Meltdown Mitigations 3 6 9 12 15 SE +/- 0.08, N = 2 SE +/- 0.14, N = 2 SE +/- 0.01, N = 2 SE +/- 0.14, N = 2 SE +/- 0.01, N = 2 SE +/- 0.06, N = 2 10.23 10.32 10.92 12.09 12.42 12.76 1. git version 2.20.1.windows.1
Darktable Darktable is an open-source photography / workflow application this will use any system-installed Darktable program or on Windows will automatically download the pre-built binary from the project. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
Windows 10 Windows 8 OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better Darktable 2.4.1 Test: Masskrug - Acceleration: CPU-only No Mitigations Spectre + Meltdown Mitigations Meltdown Mitigations 0.1215 0.243 0.3645 0.486 0.6075 SE +/- 0.02, N = 2 SE +/- 0.01, N = 2 SE +/- 0.01, N = 2 SE +/- 0.01, N = 2 SE +/- 0.01, N = 2 SE +/- 0.01, N = 2 0.50 0.51 0.54 0.51 0.52 0.52
Tesseract OCR Tesseract-OCR is the open-source optical character recognition (OCR) engine for the conversion of text within images to raw text output. This test profile relies upon a system-supplied Tesseract installation. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
Windows 8 Windows 10 OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better Tesseract OCR v4.0.0.20181030 Time To OCR 7 Images No Mitigations Meltdown Mitigations Spectre + Meltdown Mitigations 20 40 60 80 100 SE +/- 0.18, N = 2 SE +/- 0.17, N = 2 SE +/- 0.13, N = 2 SE +/- 0.12, N = 2 SE +/- 0.15, N = 2 SE +/- 0.24, N = 2 52.84 54.17 65.84 76.88 80.61 89.08
AppTimer Windows 8 Windows 10 OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better AppTimer Time To Launch: LibreOffice No Mitigations Meltdown Mitigations Spectre + Meltdown Mitigations 0.2228 0.4456 0.6684 0.8912 1.114 0.41 0.42 0.90 0.76 0.89 0.99
Windows 10 Windows 8 OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better AppTimer Time To Launch: Blender 2.79 Meltdown Mitigations Spectre + Meltdown Mitigations No Mitigations 0.009 0.018 0.027 0.036 0.045 0.03 0.04 0.04 0.03 0.03 0.03
Windows 8 Windows 10 OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better AppTimer Time To Launch: File Explorer No Mitigations Meltdown Mitigations Spectre + Meltdown Mitigations 0.0203 0.0406 0.0609 0.0812 0.1015 0.06 0.07 0.07 0.07 0.09 0.09
Windows 8 Windows 10 OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better AppTimer Time To Launch: VLC Media Player Spectre + Meltdown Mitigations Meltdown Mitigations No Mitigations 0.036 0.072 0.108 0.144 0.18 0.12 0.13 0.13 0.15 0.15 0.16
GIMP OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better GIMP 2.10.0 Test: unsharp-mask No Mitigations Meltdown Mitigations Spectre + Meltdown Mitigations 14 28 42 56 70 SE +/- 1.60, N = 2 SE +/- 1.96, N = 2 SE +/- 1.54, N = 2 58.20 59.55 62.18
OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better GIMP 2.10.0 Test: resize No Mitigations Meltdown Mitigations Spectre + Meltdown Mitigations 4 8 12 16 20 SE +/- 0.21, N = 2 SE +/- 0.38, N = 2 SE +/- 0.10, N = 2 15.34 15.87 16.56
OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better GIMP 2.10.0 Test: rotate No Mitigations Meltdown Mitigations Spectre + Meltdown Mitigations 6 12 18 24 30 SE +/- 0.09, N = 2 SE +/- 0.08, N = 2 SE +/- 0.09, N = 2 24.37 24.81 26.14
OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better GIMP 2.10.0 Test: auto-levels No Mitigations Meltdown Mitigations Spectre + Meltdown Mitigations 9 18 27 36 45 SE +/- 0.10, N = 2 SE +/- 0.18, N = 2 SE +/- 0.02, N = 2 37.68 38.21 39.56
OSBench OSBench is a collection of micro-benchmarks for measuring operating system primitives like time to create threads/processes, launching programs, creating files, and memory allocation. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
Windows 8 Windows 10 OpenBenchmarking.org us Per Event, Fewer Is Better OSBench Test: Create Threads No Mitigations Meltdown Mitigations Spectre + Meltdown Mitigations 8 16 24 32 40 SE +/- 0.03, N = 2 SE +/- 0.27, N = 2 SE +/- 0.18, N = 2 SE +/- 0.06, N = 2 SE +/- 0.35, N = 2 SE +/- 1.23, N = 2 28.20 29.64 32.61 30.31 30.99 36.43
Windows 8 Windows 10 OpenBenchmarking.org us Per Event, Fewer Is Better OSBench Test: Launch Programs No Mitigations Meltdown Mitigations Spectre + Meltdown Mitigations 600 1200 1800 2400 3000 SE +/- 723.90, N = 2 SE +/- 21.31, N = 2 SE +/- 6.63, N = 2 SE +/- 15.60, N = 2 SE +/- 30.81, N = 2 SE +/- 16.71, N = 2 1185 1947 2051 2295 2388 2624
Windows 10: No Mitigations Processor: Intel Core i9-7960X @ 2.81GHz (16 Cores / 32 Threads), Motherboard: MSI X299 SLI PLUS (MS-7A93) (1.A0 BIOS), Memory: 4 x 4096 MB 3000MHz, Disk: 238GB INTEL SSDPEKKW256G8, Graphics: AMD Radeon RX 550 2GB, Network: Intel I211 Gigabit Connection
OS: Microsoft Windows 10 Pro Build 17763, Kernel: 10.0 (x86_64), Display Driver: 22.19.677.257, OpenCL: OpenCL 2.0 AMD-APP (2442.9), File-System: NTFS, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160
Testing initiated at 11 March 2019 19:45 by user windows.
Windows 10: Meltdown Mitigations Testing initiated at 11 March 2019 20:05 by user windows.
Windows 10: Spectre + Meltdown Mitigations Processor: Intel Core i9-7960X @ 2.81GHz (16 Cores / 32 Threads), Motherboard: MSI X299 SLI PLUS (MS-7A93) (1.A0 BIOS), Memory: 4 x 4096 MB 3000MHz, Disk: 238GB INTEL SSDPEKKW256G8, Graphics: AMD Radeon RX 550 2GB, Network: Intel I211 Gigabit Connection
OS: Microsoft Windows 10 Pro Build 17763, Kernel: 10.0 (x86_64), Display Driver: 22.19.677.257, OpenCL: OpenCL 2.0 AMD-APP (2442.9), Compiler: GCC 7.1.0, File-System: NTFS, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160
Testing initiated at 12 March 2019 04:16 by user windows.
Windows 8: Spectre + Meltdown Mitigations Testing initiated at 12 March 2019 17:47 by user phoronix.
Windows 8: Meltdown Mitigations Testing initiated at 12 March 2019 20:00 by user phoronix.
Windows 8: No Mitigations Processor: Intel Core i9-7960X @ 2.80GHz (16 Cores / 32 Threads), Motherboard: MSI X299 SLI PLUS (MS-7A93) (1.A0 BIOS), Memory: 4 x 4096 MB, Disk: 238GB NVMe INTEL SSDPEKKW25, Graphics: Microsoft Basic Display, Network: Intel I211 Gigabit Connection + ASIX AX88772B USB2.0 to Fast + Microsoft ISATAP + LAN7500 USB 2.0 to 10/100/1000
OS: Microsoft Windows 8.1 Pro Build 9600, Kernel: 6.3 (x86_64), Display Driver: 6.3.9600.16384, Compiler: GCC 7.1.0, File-System: NTFS, Screen Resolution: 1024x768
Testing initiated at 12 March 2019 22:14 by user phoronix.