Tests for a future article on Phoronix.com.
Compare your own system(s) to this result file with the
Phoronix Test Suite by running the command:
phoronix-test-suite benchmark 1903120-PTS-WIN8WIN185
Windows 8 vs. Windows 10 - Spectre/Meltdown Benchmarks,
"BlogBench 1.1 - Test: Read",
Higher Results Are Better
"Windows 10: No Mitigations",7796,8527
"Windows 10: Meltdown Mitigations",8408,8600
"Windows 10: Spectre + Meltdown Mitigations",7525,7572
"Windows 8: Spectre + Meltdown Mitigations",7017,7474
"Windows 8: Meltdown Mitigations",7643,7742
"Windows 8: No Mitigations",7810,8100
"t-test1 2017-01-13 - Threads: 2",
Lower Results Are Better
"Windows 10: No Mitigations",179.6581568718,179.83153510094
"Windows 10: Meltdown Mitigations",196.42945718765,196.81285905838
"Windows 10: Spectre + Meltdown Mitigations",280.30888700485,280.04325389862
"Windows 8: Spectre + Meltdown Mitigations",221.41182780266,220.99996781349
"Windows 8: Meltdown Mitigations",173.87943005562,174.50357794762
"Windows 8: No Mitigations",159.90863394737,160.98576498032
"Geekbench 4.3.3 - Test: Multi Core",
Higher Results Are Better
"Windows 10: Spectre + Meltdown Mitigations",41251,40917
"Windows 10: Meltdown Mitigations",41362,41320
"Windows 10: No Mitigations",41699,41820
"Windows 8: Spectre + Meltdown Mitigations",38600,38849
"Windows 8: Meltdown Mitigations",39106,39423
"Windows 8: No Mitigations",39529,39227
"Maxon Cinebench 15.038 - Test: Single-Core Test",
Higher Results Are Better
"Windows 10: No Mitigations",
"Windows 10: Meltdown Mitigations",
"Windows 10: Spectre + Meltdown Mitigations",
"Windows 8: Spectre + Meltdown Mitigations",
"Windows 8: Meltdown Mitigations",
"Windows 8: No Mitigations",
"Blender 2.79a - Blend File: BMW27 - Compute: CPU-Only",
Lower Results Are Better
"Windows 10: No Mitigations",
"Windows 10: Meltdown Mitigations",
"Windows 10: Spectre + Meltdown Mitigations",
"Windows 8: Spectre + Meltdown Mitigations",
"Windows 8: Meltdown Mitigations",
"Windows 8: No Mitigations",
"Geekbench 4.3.3 - Test: Single Core",
Higher Results Are Better
"Windows 10: Spectre + Meltdown Mitigations",5249,5262
"Windows 10: Meltdown Mitigations",5266,5259
"Windows 10: No Mitigations",5301,5298
"Windows 8: Spectre + Meltdown Mitigations",5094,5101
"Windows 8: Meltdown Mitigations",5100,5117
"Windows 8: No Mitigations",5163,5172
"SQLite 3.22 - Timed SQLite Insertions",
Lower Results Are Better
"Windows 10: No Mitigations",62.631168842316,62.530459880829
"Windows 10: Meltdown Mitigations",57.582139968872,43.466928958893
"Windows 10: Spectre + Meltdown Mitigations",66.911110877991,66.183765888214
"Windows 8: Spectre + Meltdown Mitigations",94.565142869949,92.391415119171
"Windows 8: Meltdown Mitigations",94.1054251194,93.833065032959
"Windows 8: No Mitigations",91.761189937592,60.165713071823
"Tesseract OCR v4.0.0.20181030 - Time To OCR 7 Images",
Lower Results Are Better
"Windows 10: No Mitigations",76.998067140579,76.764446973801
"Windows 10: Meltdown Mitigations",80.767925977707,80.461409807205
"Windows 10: Spectre + Meltdown Mitigations",88.844751119614,89.320939779282
"Windows 8: Spectre + Meltdown Mitigations",65.965386867523,65.710292816162
"Windows 8: Meltdown Mitigations",54.337080001831,54.005686998367
"Windows 8: No Mitigations",53.025902032852,52.661167144775
"Perl Benchmarks - Test: Interpreter",
Lower Results Are Better
"Windows 10: No Mitigations",0.013071793768797,0.012895545035601
"Windows 10: Meltdown Mitigations",0.013575611539377,0.013700728348214
"Windows 10: Spectre + Meltdown Mitigations",0.015169821187259,0.014987724550828
"Windows 8: Spectre + Meltdown Mitigations",0.013421274896978,0.012779536262409
"Windows 8: Meltdown Mitigations",0.011235693561961,0.011445341552635
"Windows 8: No Mitigations",0.011130282467533,0.010673791428227
"GIMP 2.10.0 - Test: unsharp-mask",
Lower Results Are Better
"Windows 8: Meltdown Mitigations",61.511346817017,57.598315000534
"Windows 8: Spectre + Meltdown Mitigations",63.715451955795,60.645249128342
"Windows 8: No Mitigations",59.793060779572,56.598115921021
"7-Zip Compression 16.02 - Compress Speed Test",
Higher Results Are Better
"Windows 10: No Mitigations",72287,73807
"Windows 10: Meltdown Mitigations",75652,75145
"Windows 10: Spectre + Meltdown Mitigations",72763,73447
"Windows 8: Spectre + Meltdown Mitigations",82559,82700
"Windows 8: Meltdown Mitigations",82712,83952
"Windows 8: No Mitigations",84195,84810
"GIMP 2.10.0 - Test: auto-levels",
Lower Results Are Better
"Windows 8: Meltdown Mitigations",38.393661975861,38.033570051193
"Windows 8: Spectre + Meltdown Mitigations",39.534353971481,39.580353975296
"Windows 8: No Mitigations",37.581180810928,37.783836841583
"IOzone 3.465 - Record Size: 4Kb - File Size: 4GB - Disk Test: Read Performance",
Higher Results Are Better
"Windows 10: No Mitigations",1268.8359375,1266.0966796875
"Windows 10: Meltdown Mitigations",1212.740234375,1213.9140625
"Windows 10: Spectre + Meltdown Mitigations",888.7958984375,900.6103515625
"Windows 8: Spectre + Meltdown Mitigations",1290.9892578125,1294.0546875
"Windows 8: Meltdown Mitigations",1871.93359375,1884.9833984375
"Windows 8: No Mitigations",2062.646484375,2057.060546875
"PHPBench 0.8.1 - PHP Benchmark Suite",
Higher Results Are Better
"Windows 10: No Mitigations",217408,219741
"Windows 10: Meltdown Mitigations",218041,215152
"Windows 10: Spectre + Meltdown Mitigations",213599,210850
"Windows 8: Spectre + Meltdown Mitigations",361470,363561
"Windows 8: Meltdown Mitigations",367796,367804
"Windows 8: No Mitigations",360182,363664
"Diskspd 2.0.21 - Threads Per Target: 1 - Write Requests (Percent): 0 - Read Only - File Size: 100M - Block Size: 2MB",
Higher Results Are Better
"Windows 10: No Mitigations",860.21,864.28
"Windows 10: Meltdown Mitigations",858.55,858.05
"Windows 10: Spectre + Meltdown Mitigations",842.38,856.32
"Windows 8: Spectre + Meltdown Mitigations",666.46,693.52
"Windows 8: Meltdown Mitigations",668.7,706.39
"Windows 8: No Mitigations",1070.49,1111.22
"Diskspd 2.0.21 - Threads Per Target: 1 - Write Requests (Percent): 0 - Read Only - File Size: 100M - Block Size: 2MB",
Higher Results Are Better
"Windows 10: No Mitigations",1720.43,1728.56
"Windows 10: Meltdown Mitigations",1717.1,1716.1
"Windows 10: Spectre + Meltdown Mitigations",1684.76,1712.63
"Windows 8: Spectre + Meltdown Mitigations",1332.93,1387.05
"Windows 8: Meltdown Mitigations",1337.4,1412.79
"Windows 8: No Mitigations",2140.98,2222.43
"AppTimer - Time To Launch: VLC Media Player",
Lower Results Are Better
"Windows 10: No Mitigations",0.15075
"Windows 10: Meltdown Mitigations",0.14925
"Windows 10: Spectre + Meltdown Mitigations",0.159033
"Windows 8: Spectre + Meltdown Mitigations",0.115314
"Windows 8: Meltdown Mitigations",0.134467
"Windows 8: No Mitigations",0.131267
"Flexible IO Tester 3.1 - Type: Sequential Write - IO Engine: Windows AIO - Buffered: Yes - Direct: No - Block Size: 2MB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory",
Higher Results Are Better
"Windows 10: No Mitigations",2738,2769
"Windows 10: Meltdown Mitigations",2775,2778
"Windows 10: Spectre + Meltdown Mitigations",2684,2676
"Windows 8: Spectre + Meltdown Mitigations",2935,2911
"Windows 8: Meltdown Mitigations",2934,2968
"Windows 8: No Mitigations",2968,2990
"Flexible IO Tester 3.1 - Type: Random Write - IO Engine: Windows AIO - Buffered: Yes - Direct: No - Block Size: 2MB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory",
Higher Results Are Better
"Windows 10: No Mitigations",2723,2770
"Windows 10: Meltdown Mitigations",2808,2812
"Windows 10: Spectre + Meltdown Mitigations",2705,2709
"Windows 8: Spectre + Meltdown Mitigations",5225,5666
"Windows 8: Meltdown Mitigations",5216,5701
"Windows 8: No Mitigations",5741,5852
"Flexible IO Tester 3.1 - Type: Random Write - IO Engine: Linux AIO - Buffered: Yes - Direct: No - Block Size: 4KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory",
Higher Results Are Better
"Windows 10: No Mitigations",185000,186000
"Windows 10: Meltdown Mitigations",146000,150000
"Windows 10: Spectre + Meltdown Mitigations",129000,126000
"Windows 8: Spectre + Meltdown Mitigations",212000,219000
"Windows 8: Meltdown Mitigations",293000,277000
"Windows 8: No Mitigations",316000,308000
"Flexible IO Tester 3.1 - Type: Random Write - IO Engine: Linux AIO - Buffered: Yes - Direct: No - Block Size: 4KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory",
Higher Results Are Better
"Windows 10: No Mitigations",723,726
"Windows 10: Meltdown Mitigations",572,586
"Windows 10: Spectre + Meltdown Mitigations",505,494
"Windows 8: Spectre + Meltdown Mitigations",829,856
"Windows 8: Meltdown Mitigations",1143,1082
"Windows 8: No Mitigations",1234,1201
"Flexible IO Tester 3.1 - Type: Random Read - IO Engine: Windows AIO - Buffered: Yes - Direct: No - Block Size: 2MB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory",
Higher Results Are Better
"Windows 10: No Mitigations",3648,3652
"Windows 10: Meltdown Mitigations",3668,3679
"Windows 10: Spectre + Meltdown Mitigations",3552,3560
"Windows 8: Spectre + Meltdown Mitigations",7323,7312
"Windows 8: Meltdown Mitigations",7371,7360
"Windows 8: No Mitigations",7414,7401
"Flexible IO Tester 3.1 - Type: Sequential Read - IO Engine: Windows AIO - Buffered: Yes - Direct: No - Block Size: 2MB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory",
Higher Results Are Better
"Windows 10: No Mitigations",3609,3521
"Windows 10: Meltdown Mitigations",3699,3594
"Windows 10: Spectre + Meltdown Mitigations",3582,3589
"Windows 8: Spectre + Meltdown Mitigations",7327,7317
"Windows 8: Meltdown Mitigations",7372,7373
"Windows 8: No Mitigations",7377,7393
"GIMP 2.10.0 - Test: rotate",
Lower Results Are Better
"Windows 8: Meltdown Mitigations",24.892194986343,24.73522901535
"Windows 8: Spectre + Meltdown Mitigations",26.235926866531,26.048004150391
"Windows 8: No Mitigations",24.282859802246,24.454145908356
"Redis 3.2.1 - Test: SET",
Higher Results Are Better
"Windows 10: No Mitigations",707113.56,723641.38
"Windows 10: Meltdown Mitigations",708918.19,714643.06
"Windows 10: Spectre + Meltdown Mitigations",645036.44,665956.31
"Windows 8: Spectre + Meltdown Mitigations",1090155.88,1076774
"Windows 8: Meltdown Mitigations",1122082.63,1146789
"Windows 8: No Mitigations",1154334.5,1153934.88
"AppTimer - Time To Launch: LibreOffice",
Lower Results Are Better
"Windows 10: No Mitigations",0.756167
"Windows 10: Meltdown Mitigations",0.893567
"Windows 10: Spectre + Meltdown Mitigations",0.99445
"Windows 8: Spectre + Meltdown Mitigations",0.903233
"Windows 8: Meltdown Mitigations",0.4189
"Windows 8: No Mitigations",0.405883
"DaCapo Benchmark 9.12-MR1 - Java Test: Jython",
Lower Results Are Better
"Windows 10: No Mitigations",5623,5497
"Windows 10: Meltdown Mitigations",5738,5496
"Windows 10: Spectre + Meltdown Mitigations",5822,5883
"Windows 8: Spectre + Meltdown Mitigations",4000,4032
"Windows 8: Meltdown Mitigations",4078,3969
"Windows 8: No Mitigations",
"Ethr 2019-01-02 - Server Address: 127.0.0.1 - Protocol: TCP - Test: Latency - Threads: 8",
Lower Results Are Better
"Windows 10: No Mitigations",14.250363108206,14.407759000734
"Windows 10: Meltdown Mitigations",15.869314857582,15.088408916218
"Windows 10: Spectre + Meltdown Mitigations",24.062585365854,23.905792682927
"OpenSSL 1.0.1g - RSA 4096-bit Performance",
Higher Results Are Better
"Windows 10: No Mitigations",133.6,133.7
"Windows 10: Meltdown Mitigations",133.8,133.9
"Windows 10: Spectre + Meltdown Mitigations",130.5,130.6
"Windows 8: Spectre + Meltdown Mitigations",181.4,181.7
"Windows 8: Meltdown Mitigations",181.9,179.6
"Windows 8: No Mitigations",181.1,181.3
"Ethr 2019-01-02 - Server Address: 127.0.0.1 - Protocol: TCP - Test: Latency - Threads: 16",
Lower Results Are Better
"Windows 10: No Mitigations",14.082067480258,14.32067833698
"Windows 10: Meltdown Mitigations",15.060782208589,14.971722306525
"Windows 10: Spectre + Meltdown Mitigations",24.182653562654,23.932841463415
"AppTimer - Time To Launch: Blender 2.79",
Lower Results Are Better
"Windows 10: No Mitigations",0.0408
"Windows 10: Meltdown Mitigations",0.0345583
"Windows 10: Spectre + Meltdown Mitigations",0.0376333
"Windows 8: Spectre + Meltdown Mitigations",0.033575
"Windows 8: Meltdown Mitigations",0.0349083
"Windows 8: No Mitigations",0.0349417
"AppTimer - Time To Launch: File Explorer",
Lower Results Are Better
"Windows 10: No Mitigations",0.0941667
"Windows 10: Meltdown Mitigations",0.0721
"Windows 10: Spectre + Meltdown Mitigations",0.0902167
"Windows 8: Spectre + Meltdown Mitigations",0.0723833
"Windows 8: Meltdown Mitigations",0.0672833
"Windows 8: No Mitigations",0.0646833
"Redis 3.2.1 - Test: GET",
Higher Results Are Better
"Windows 10: No Mitigations",978377.88,1006947.94
"Windows 10: Meltdown Mitigations",988239.88,979719.81
"Windows 10: Spectre + Meltdown Mitigations",897907.88,897021.94
"Windows 8: Spectre + Meltdown Mitigations",1399580.13,1413627.38
"Windows 8: Meltdown Mitigations",1534212.88,1541544.63
"Windows 8: No Mitigations",1565680.25,1520912.63
"GIMP 2.10.0 - Test: resize",
Lower Results Are Better
"Windows 8: Meltdown Mitigations",16.251450061798,15.484394073486
"Windows 8: Spectre + Meltdown Mitigations",16.464740037918,16.655803918839
"Windows 8: No Mitigations",15.547554016113,15.125024080276
"LAME MP3 Encoding 3.100 - WAV To MP3",
Lower Results Are Better
"Windows 10: No Mitigations",15.283928871155,15.268736124039
"Windows 10: Meltdown Mitigations",15.199167013168,15.167444944382
"Windows 10: Spectre + Meltdown Mitigations",15.596201896667,15.543968915939
"Windows 8: Spectre + Meltdown Mitigations",11.258816957474,11.20317196846
"Windows 8: Meltdown Mitigations",11.241438150406,11.218333005905
"Windows 8: No Mitigations",11.212912082672,11.172315120697
"Maxon Cinebench 15.038 - Test: Multi-Core Test",
Higher Results Are Better
"Windows 10: No Mitigations",
"Windows 10: Meltdown Mitigations",
"Windows 10: Spectre + Meltdown Mitigations",
"Windows 8: Spectre + Meltdown Mitigations",
"Windows 8: Meltdown Mitigations",
"Windows 8: No Mitigations",
"Go Benchmarks - Test: http",
Lower Results Are Better
"Windows 10: No Mitigations",
"Windows 10: Meltdown Mitigations",4427,4374
"Windows 10: Spectre + Meltdown Mitigations",4690,4663
"Windows 8: Spectre + Meltdown Mitigations",7419,7369
"Windows 8: Meltdown Mitigations",6853,6725
"Windows 8: No Mitigations",6758,6601
"Git - Time To Complete Common Git Commands",
Lower Results Are Better
"Windows 10: No Mitigations",11.940438985825,12.230430841446
"Windows 10: Meltdown Mitigations",12.428400039673,12.404695034027
"Windows 10: Spectre + Meltdown Mitigations",12.818825960159,12.705175876617
"Windows 8: Spectre + Meltdown Mitigations",10.928668022156,10.906299114227
"Windows 8: Meltdown Mitigations",10.146118164062,10.312618970871
"Windows 8: No Mitigations",10.177617073059,10.453230142593
"FLAC Audio Encoding 1.3.2 - WAV To FLAC",
Lower Results Are Better
"Windows 10: No Mitigations",12.724101066589,12.693972110748
"Windows 10: Meltdown Mitigations",12.68455696106,12.646235942841
"Windows 10: Spectre + Meltdown Mitigations",13.036623954773,12.98064994812
"Windows 8: Spectre + Meltdown Mitigations",9.913694858551,9.7972271442413
"Windows 8: Meltdown Mitigations",9.7229819297791,9.6412110328674
"Windows 8: No Mitigations",9.725564956665,9.6255030632019
"DaCapo Benchmark 9.12-MR1 - Java Test: H2",
Lower Results Are Better
"Windows 10: No Mitigations",3701,3887
"Windows 10: Meltdown Mitigations",3524,3574
"Windows 10: Spectre + Meltdown Mitigations",3745,3710
"Windows 8: Spectre + Meltdown Mitigations",3094,3188
"Windows 8: Meltdown Mitigations",3438,3235
"Windows 8: No Mitigations",3094,3532
"OSBench - Test: Launch Programs",
Lower Results Are Better
"Windows 10: No Mitigations",2357.382,2419.001
"Windows 10: Meltdown Mitigations",2310.628,2279.431
"Windows 10: Spectre + Meltdown Mitigations",2640.515,2607.092
"Windows 8: Spectre + Meltdown Mitigations",2057.228732,2043.965606
"Windows 8: Meltdown Mitigations",1926.070039,1968.692906
"Windows 8: No Mitigations",1908.408972,460.613597
"OSBench - Test: Create Threads",
Lower Results Are Better
"Windows 10: No Mitigations",30.254,30.367
"Windows 10: Meltdown Mitigations",30.643,31.346
"Windows 10: Spectre + Meltdown Mitigations",37.654,35.198
"Windows 8: Spectre + Meltdown Mitigations",32.426649,32.791321
"Windows 8: Meltdown Mitigations",29.363392,29.906753
"Windows 8: No Mitigations",28.229262,28.170914
"OSBench - Test: Memory Allocations",
Lower Results Are Better
"Windows 10: No Mitigations",125.3257,125.4494
"Windows 10: Meltdown Mitigations",128.821,130.2472
"Windows 10: Spectre + Meltdown Mitigations",136.937,138.2402
"Windows 8: Spectre + Meltdown Mitigations",75.94626,76.032688
"Windows 8: Meltdown Mitigations",73.565654,72.781244
"Windows 8: No Mitigations",63.125093,63.77968
"Darktable 2.4.1 - Test: Masskrug - Acceleration: CPU-only",
Lower Results Are Better
"Windows 10: No Mitigations",0.482,0.526
"Windows 10: Meltdown Mitigations",0.546,0.535
"Windows 10: Spectre + Meltdown Mitigations",0.523,0.498
"Windows 8: Spectre + Meltdown Mitigations",0.531,0.516
"Windows 8: Meltdown Mitigations",0.516,0.531
"Windows 8: No Mitigations",0.516,0.5
"BlogBench 1.1 - Test: Write",
Higher Results Are Better
"Windows 10: No Mitigations",
"Windows 10: Meltdown Mitigations",264,258
"Windows 10: Spectre + Meltdown Mitigations",227,228
"Windows 8: Spectre + Meltdown Mitigations",210,212
"Windows 8: Meltdown Mitigations",222,230
"Windows 8: No Mitigations",227,233