first Intel Core i5-6300U testing with a LENOVO 20FNX013US (R06ET65W 1.39 BIOS) and Intel Skylake GT2 [HD 520] on LinuxMint 19.1 via the Phoronix Test Suite. with_mitigations: Processor: Intel Core i5-6300U @ 3.00GHz (2 Cores / 4 Threads), Motherboard: LENOVO 20FNX013US (R06ET65W 1.39 BIOS), Chipset: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v5/E3-1500, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 512GB SAMSUNG MZ7LN512, Graphics: Intel Skylake GT2 [HD 520] (1000MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC293, Network: Intel I219-LM + Intel 8260 OS: LinuxMint 19.1, Kernel: 4.15.0-55-generic (x86_64), Display Server: X Server 1.19.6, Display Driver: modesetting 1.19.6, Compiler: GCC 7.4.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Rodinia 2.4 Test: OpenMP LavaMD Seconds < Lower Is Better with_mitigations . 463.97 |==================================================== Rodinia 2.4 Test: OpenMP CFD Solver Seconds < Lower Is Better with_mitigations . 128.51 |==================================================== NAMD 2.13b1 ATPase Simulation - 327,506 Atoms days/ns < Lower Is Better with_mitigations . 10.47 |===================================================== x264 2018-09-25 H.264 Video Encoding Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better with_mitigations . 16.26 |===================================================== x265 3.0 H.265 1080p Video Encoding Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better with_mitigations . 9.07 |====================================================== 7-Zip Compression 16.02 Compress Speed Test MIPS > Higher Is Better with_mitigations . 8744 |====================================================== Stockfish 9 Total Time Nodes Per Second > Higher Is Better with_mitigations . 4002701 |=================================================== asmFish 2018-07-23 1024 Hash Memory, 26 Depth Nodes/second > Higher Is Better with_mitigations . 4401373 |=================================================== Timed GCC Compilation 8.2 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better with_mitigations . 3204.69 |=================================================== Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 4.18 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better with_mitigations . 419.15 |==================================================== POV-Ray 3.7.0.7 Trace Time Seconds < Lower Is Better with_mitigations . 296.19 |==================================================== Radiance Benchmark 5.0 Test: Serial Seconds < Lower Is Better with_mitigations . 1072.13 |=================================================== Radiance Benchmark 5.0 Test: SMP Parallel Seconds < Lower Is Better with_mitigations . 584.38 |==================================================== OpenSSL 1.1.1 RSA 4096-bit Performance Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better with_mitigations . 430.83 |==================================================== ctx_clock Context Switch Time Clocks < Lower Is Better with_mitigations . 1010 |====================================================== Sysbench 2018-07-28 Test: CPU Events Per Second > Higher Is Better with_mitigations . 3323.25 |===================================================