Some Minor Performance Hits Observed With New Intel Arrow Lake 0x118 CPU Microcode

Last week Intel released new CPU microcode for a number of processor generations due to the Training Solo vulnerability and Branch Privilege Injection. In this article today are some benchmarks looking at the performance difference from simply upgrading to the new CPU microcode on an Intel Core Ultra 9 285K "Arrow Lake" desktop system...

May 20, 2025 - 15:15
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Some Minor Performance Hits Observed With New Intel Arrow Lake 0x118 CPU Microcode
Last week Intel released new CPU microcode for a number of processor generations due to the Training Solo vulnerability and Branch Privilege Injection. In this article today are some benchmarks looking at the performance difference from simply upgrading to the new CPU microcode on an Intel Core Ultra 9 285K "Arrow Lake" desktop system...