Did anyone notice any memory bandwidth problem with the 2018 firmware? On UserBenchmark.com, I can see several results with more than 6GB/s multi-core, but I only managed to achieve 3.4GB. I have upgraded the machine to the latest firmware and installed two sticks (which limits it to 1333MHz), but I am not expecting the memory bandwidth to half.
I think one suspect is the newer CPU microcode in the BIOS which probably included some Spectre/Meltdown fix; however, similar microcode update is included in Windows 10 anyway.
Also, all
benchmarks indicate some noticeable performance drop on the SSDs (compared to the same disks' performance in other computers). I am not sure if this is due to CPU power or inferior disk controller design.