AMD Immune to Crippling MDS Vulnerabilities

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Perhaps unsurprisingly at this point, new security vulnerabilities have been found in Intel's CPUs dating all the way back to 2008.

Known as Zombieload, RIDL, Fallout, and MDS, these holes in Intel's architecture are the latest in a string of vulnerabilities that have been revealed one after the other since the early 2018 debut of Meltdown.

It's not just security holes that are plaguing Intel, the patches for them also harm Intel as well.

Operating system- and software-level solutions to Intel's many vulnerabilities reduce the performance of its processors.

The Linux-focused Phoronix website tested the performance difference on Intel's Core i9 7980XE and found that the performance reduction was often around 10%, but sometimes as high as 50%. AMD, not requiring any patches, obviously loses no performance.

Consumers with Intel processors may accept these vulnerabilities so as to avoid performance penalties, but those who opted for Ryzen, Threadripper, and Epyc, are surely relieved that they can escape with their performance intact and security unaffected.

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