The expert explained that we are talking about 8th and 11th generation Intel chips, but most likely it applies to all processors from 2007. In particular, Glyn noticed a drop in running speed with the Intel Core i9 10 850K processor.
Also during analysis, he noticed that Windows Defender uses all Intel Core hardware performance counters, even though antiviruses don’t usually need a lot of resources.
The specialist noted that the load itself is not a problem for Windows. But most of the time “Defender” conflicts with other apps.
Source: Ferra
