Following today’s disclosure by Intel of the CrossTalk/SRBDS vulnerability that is MDS-based and vulnerable across physical cores with affected instructions, Intel released new CPU microcode to mitigate the most prone/significant instructions. I’ve been benchmarking the impact of this new microcode on multiple systems and will have a full report tonight or tomorrow morning… But here is a look specifically at the look at the impact on the RdRand performance…

Source: Phoronix – RdRand Performance As Bad As ~3% Original Speed With CrossTalk/SRBDS Mitigation