osbench-microcode Intel Core i5-4670K testing with a MSI Z87-G41 PC Mate(MS-7850) v1.0 (V1.8 BIOS) and MSI AMD Radeon RX 470/480/570/570X/580/580X/590 8GB on Ubuntu 21.10 via the Phoronix Test Suite. microcode 28, post-Spectre/Meltdown: Processor: Intel Core i5-4670K @ 4.30GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: MSI Z87-G41 PC Mate(MS-7850) v1.0 (V1.8 BIOS), Chipset: Intel 4th Gen Core DRAM, Memory: 32GB, Disk: 2 x 500GB Samsung SSD 860, Graphics: MSI AMD Radeon RX 470/480/570/570X/580/580X/590 8GB (1303/2000MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC887-VD, Monitor: NS-PMG248, Network: Qualcomm Atheros AR93xx OS: Ubuntu 21.10, Kernel: 5.15.1-051501+customidle-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 40.5, Display Server: X Server 1.20.13, OpenGL: 4.6 Mesa 21.2.5 kisak-mesa PPA (LLVM 13.0.0), OpenCL: OpenCL 2.1 AMD-APP (3302.5), Vulkan: 1.2.182, Compiler: GCC 9.4.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 microcode 22, pre-Spectre/Meltdown, 2nd run: Processor: Intel Core i5-4670K @ 4.30GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: MSI Z87-G41 PC Mate(MS-7850) v1.0 (V1.8 BIOS), Chipset: Intel 4th Gen Core DRAM, Memory: 32GB, Disk: 2 x 500GB Samsung SSD 860, Graphics: MSI AMD Radeon RX 470/480/570/570X/580/580X/590 8GB (1303/2000MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC887-VD, Monitor: NS-PMG248, Network: Qualcomm Atheros AR93xx OS: Ubuntu 21.10, Kernel: 5.15.1-051501+customidle-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 40.5, Display Server: X Server 1.20.13, OpenGL: 4.6 Mesa 21.2.5 kisak-mesa PPA (LLVM 13.0.0), OpenCL: OpenCL 2.1 AMD-APP (3302.5), Vulkan: 1.2.182, Compiler: GCC 9.4.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 OSBench Test: Create Files us Per Event < Lower Is Better microcode 28, post-Spectre/Meltdown ......... 10.76 |========================== microcode 22, pre-Spectre/Meltdown, 2nd run . 10.60 |========================== OSBench Test: Create Threads us Per Event < Lower Is Better microcode 28, post-Spectre/Meltdown ......... 7.323424 |======================= microcode 22, pre-Spectre/Meltdown, 2nd run . 7.230441 |======================= OSBench Test: Launch Programs us Per Event < Lower Is Better microcode 28, post-Spectre/Meltdown ......... 49.70 |========================== microcode 22, pre-Spectre/Meltdown, 2nd run . 49.46 |========================== OSBench Test: Create Processes us Per Event < Lower Is Better microcode 28, post-Spectre/Meltdown ......... 16.14 |========================== microcode 22, pre-Spectre/Meltdown, 2nd run . 15.49 |========================= OSBench Test: Memory Allocations Ns Per Event < Lower Is Better microcode 28, post-Spectre/Meltdown ......... 63.65 |========================== microcode 22, pre-Spectre/Meltdown, 2nd run . 62.26 |=========================