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In a nutshell, the new Coffee Lake Refresh chips like the Core i9-9900K, Core i7-9700K, and the Core i5-9600K now also feature hardware-based protection for Meltdown variant 3 and Meltdown variant 5. These fixes are not present in the new Xeon W-3175X, nor will they be included in the upcoming Core-X Skylake-X Refresh as those are still based on the same silicon but with different binning and cache configurations.
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It will be interesting to see how these hardware-based fixes improve performance versus the software-based mitigation that is present for Coffee Lake.