Epic Games Reports of CPU Performance Issues from Security Patches to Fix Meltdown Vulnerability

Last week, the tech industry was rocked by two major CPU bugs: Meltdown and Spectre. Back then, reports suggested that a fix for the issues would lead to a performance impact of anywhere between 5-3o percent. Early benchmarks suggested that the performance impact was less than 5%. However, as time is passing and the patch is being applied by major tech giants, reports about significant performance issues and its impact are starting to show.

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