Ubuntu will supply intel-compute-runtime without Spectre protection, reducing performance by 20%.
Ubuntu has decided to switch by default to providing the intel-compute-runtime package, built with the NEO_DISABLE_MITIGATIONS flag, which disables protection against Spectre-class attacks. According to Ubuntu developers, having such protection leads to a performance reduction of about 20% for the package. The intel-compute-runtime package includes components necessary for using OpenCL and OneAPI Level Zero on systems with Intel GPUs. In the builds provided […]
