Windows 10 Meltdown/Spectre Patch Performance Impact Assessment

Cinebench R15

Cinebench R15 is one of the industry’s go-to benchmarks when looking at CPU performance, though we can see there that the difference pre and post-Windows 10’s security patch that the difference is clearly within the margin of error. There is only a single point difference between most of the scores below, which is well below anything that would be noticeable to an end user.