Programmer Kevin Glynn, one of the GPU-Z, MemTest64 and ThrottleStop tools involved, revealed that Windows Defender slows down the system on some PCs with Intel processors.
The antivirus constantly loads all hardware CPU performance counters. Because of this, the performance and stability of the OS drops.
So, he got infected with a microcircuit on a Core i9-10850K chip. Testing showed that the difference in the presence of a bug is 1000 points in the Cinebench benchmark, or 6%. Other PC owners with 8th to 11th generation Intel processors have also confirmed the problem.
Glynn has already informed Microsoft that a free Counter Control utility that resets performance counters is being used as a workaround. If any field says “Windows Defender”, then you need to use the “Reset counters” recipe. [Gizmodo]
Source: Iphones RU
