Benchmarking The Performance Impact To AMD Inception Mitigations

Written by Michael Larabel in Software on 15 August 2023 at 10:30 AM EDT. Page 7 of 8. 35 Comments.
Darktable benchmark with settings of Test: Boat, Acceleration: CPU-only. off was the fastest.
Darktable benchmark with settings of Test: Masskrug, Acceleration: CPU-only. off was the fastest.
GIMP benchmark with settings of Test: resize. off was the fastest.
GIMP benchmark with settings of Test: rotate. off was the fastest.
GIMP benchmark with settings of Test: unsharp-mask. off was the fastest.

Some user applications like the Darktable RAW photography software and GIMP image editor were showing some performance implications due to the new Inception mitigation.

GNU Octave Benchmark benchmark with settings of . off was the fastest.
RawTherapee benchmark with settings of Total Benchmark Time. off was the fastest.

GNU Octave as a MATLAB alternative and the RawTherapee photography software also recorded losses from this safe RET no microcode mitigation.


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