New Intel Vulnerability mitigation impacting performance?

[Ren Heika]

So I recently got a laptop with an Intel i7-9750H and it started off at a cinebench score of 1224, then the news of the latest intel vulnerabilities came out. After that there were a few windows updates and my score has gone down to around 1140 or 1090 depending on the day. Is this just my imagination or has there been windows patches that have effected performance?

[Duckson McQuack]

Scores can vary based on background processes and other things. Don't be worried.

[Guest]

10 minutes ago, Renton577 said:

So I recently got a laptop with an Intel i7-9750H and it started off at a cinebench score of 1224, then the news of the latest intel vulnerabilities came out. After that there were a few windows updates and my score has gone down to around 1140 or 1090 depending on the day. Is this just my imagination or has there been windows patches that have effected performance?

Possibly. 

Or perhaps you've installed an app that runs in the background recently and it's using resources while you're benchmarking?

Could be anything. Investigate your rig's usage often, maybe you'll see something that stands out or doesn't look right.

[Ren Heika]

2 minutes ago, TeeKayTK said:

Scores can vary based on background processes and other things. Don't be worried.

 

2 minutes ago, ShrimpBrime said:

Possibly. 

Or perhaps you've installed an app that runs in the background recently and it's using resources while you're benchmarking?

Could be anything. Investigate your rig's usage often, maybe you'll see something that stands out or doesn't look right.

These scores are from all background programs off and no apps running, eh maybe I'm overthinking things though.

[Duckson McQuack]

Even the temperature of the room or what you've been doing recently might've warmed up the CPU to the point that it throttles. Most of this within margin of error. What laptop is it?

 

[Ren Heika]

Just now, TeeKayTK said:

Even the temperature of the room or what you've been doing recently might've warmed up the CPU to the point that it throttles. Most of this within margin of error. What laptop is it?

 

Its a Dell G7 7790, Thermals and clocks are consistent under load. 3.6Ghz is the lowest it goes while testing with the majority of the times clocks sticking around 3.8 - 4Ghz