How convenient for Intel - they have been unable to improve significantly on the single threaded performance since the 4790K but with this "fix", newer CPUs will magically start to look better than the old ones..
It’s vulnerable to Spectre even to Variant 2 but they define it as a very low risk what ever that means and only issuing fixes for Variant 1.
It looks like the second variant of Spectre the out of bounds check is the culprit here; if AMD isn’t vulnerable at all it would be great but to me it looks like they are sitting on the fence to wait and see where the exploits go.
It’s vulnerable to Spectre even to Variant 2 but they define it as a very low risk what ever that means and only issuing fixes for Variant 1.
It looks like the second variant of Spectre the out of bounds check is the culprit here; if AMD isn’t vulnerable at all it would be great but to me it looks like they are sitting on the fence to wait and see where the exploits go.