SiSoftware Sandra 2021

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-- Veröffentlicht durch ocinside am 11:20 am 1. Nov. 2023

SiSoftware Sandra R26 31.137 wurde gerade veröffentlicht und kann nun von unserem Server heruntergeladen werden :thumb:


- Hardware Support
Resolved detection issues with Intels 14th Gen Core RaptorLake-Refresh e.g. 14700KF
Resolved reporting issues with AMDs Gen4 Ryzen e.g. 7950X-3D

- Software Support
Resolved detection issues with tiered Storage Pools e.g. Windows Storage Spaces
Updated Official Ranker API for greater reliability

- Windows Defender Core Isolation features and Sandras Kernel Driver
Sandra is compatible with most Core Isolation” security features and you can have those enabled:
Memory Integrity – Compatible, can enable
Memory Access Protection – Compatible, can enable
Microsoft Vulnerable Driver Blocklist – Kernel driver compatible
Kernel-mode Hardware-enforced Stack Protection – Kernel driver not compatible, but software will still run with reduced functionality

- Kernel-mode Hardware-enforced Stack Protection and Sandras Kernel Driver

When running Sandra on recent Windows 11 versions and hardware you may receive a pop-up stating that Sandra.sys aka the kernel driver cannot be loaded on this device due to a security feature called Hardware-enforced Stack Protection. Microsoft has started to ask Windows users to enable this new security features that may not be compatible with Sandra’s kernel driver Sandra.sys. As this driver must run in kernel space and directly interacts with hardware – as with most other hardware utilities of this type, e.g. game anti-cheats, anti-virus/malware and similar kernel-level software – it cannot be compatible with all features. While we are working on finding a solution, unfortunately there is no easy or immediate fix for it. While most of the features will still work without the kernel device driver – its hardware detection functionality is greatly reduced, e.g. CPU/Chipset/Memory data will not be available e.g. CPU multipliers, memory controller timings, memory modules detection, etc.. You can still run the benchmarks. For full Sandra functionality, you will need to disable this feature and perhaps re-enable it later if all your other software is compatible with it. While we are working on a solution, unfortunately there is no immediate/easy work-around or fix.


-- Veröffentlicht durch ocinside am 10:52 am 6. Aug. 2023

SiSoftware Sandra R25 31.133 wurde gerade veröffentlicht und kann nun von unserem Server heruntergeladen werden :thumb:


- CPU Multi-Media Benchmarks
AVX-iFMA(52): New 256-bit code path based on AVX512-iFMA(52) 512-bit for future arch (e.g. Meteor Lake MTL, Arrow Lake ARL). We saw +66% improvement as detailed in our AVX512-iFMA(52) Improvement for IceLake & TigerLake article.
AVX512-FP16: New code path for Xeon processors that support AVX512-FP16. We expect +90% improvement over FP32 if precision loss in acceptable (e.g. zoomed out fractals).
Note: Future FP16 code-paths will also be added to the other CPU benchmarks, however some parts may remain FP32 as the loss of precision would make the results useless. We have explored this in our GP-GPU article dealing with FP16 support: FP16 GP-GPU Image Processing Performance & Quality.

- CPU Cryptogaphy Benchmarks
SHA2-512 HWA: Hardware-accelerated hashing SHA512 code-path – based on current SHA2-256 HWA. We expect ~3x (three times) better performance based on the SHA2 non-accelerated/HWA results.
Future SM3-256 (China) HWA: Hardware-accelerated hashing SM3 code-path (China's version of SHA hashing functions). We expect similar performance improvement to SHA HWA.
Future SM4-128/256 (China) HWA: Hardware-accelerated block crypto SM4 code-path (China's version of AES block crypto functions). We expect similar performance improvement to AES HWA.
Note: We will default to SM4 + SM3 benchmarks – rather than AES + SHA for both CPU & GP-GPU Cryptography benchmarks when China locale is detected as these algorithms are more likely to be used there.

- All CPU Benchmarks – AVX10 Support
AVX10.2+ 256-bit future code paths (FP32, FP64 and FP16) for Hybrid architectures (e.g. Meteor Lake MTL, Arrow Lake ARL). Note both Core (P) and Atom (E) will run the same 256-bit width binary and not different widths
AVX10.1+ 512-bit & AVX512 shared code path (FP32, FP64 and FP16) for Xeon architectures
Possible AVX10.2+ 128-bit future code path for Atom/Other discrete architectures if required

- Hardware Support
Intel 14th gen Hybrid Raptor Lake Refresh RPL-S support
Intel future gen Hybrid Meteor Lake (MTL-S/M/P/N), Arrow Lake (ARL-S/U), Lunar Lake (LNL-M) detection
Intel future gen Xeon Granite Rapids SP/D detection


-- Veröffentlicht durch ocinside am 13:59 am 1. März 2023

SiSoftware Sandra 31.117 mit AMD X3D Unterstützung wurde online gestellt und kann nun von unserem Server heruntergeladen werden :thumb:


- CPU / Platform Detection
Additional Intel Core 13 (RaptorLake) H/P/U-Series support
Preliminary AMD Ryzen 3D V-Cache/L3 (7950X-3D, 7900X-3D, 7800X-3D etc) support
- GP-GPU Benchmarks
Updated CUDA SDK


-- Veröffentlicht durch ocinside am 7:05 am 16. Dez. 2022

SiSoftware Sandra 31.115 wurde online gestellt und kann nun von unserem Server heruntergeladen werden :thumb:


- Benchmarks, Hardware Support updates and fixes
GP-GPU – CUDA
Updated to CUDA 11.8
Support for 8.9/9.0 devices
nVidia 4090 series FP16 validation failure (too low precision for image size)
GP-GPU Memory Bandwidth
Corrected DirectX Compute (11/12) bandwidths with internal graphics
Memory Detection
Intel XMP 3.0, AMD EXPO DDR5 detection missing in some instances
Jedec, Intel XMP 2.0 DDR4 write timings if provided by newer standard revision
Corrected timings (tRP, tRAS) for some Intel ADL/RPL systems
Missing memory timings for some mobile Intel ADP-P/U systems
Added support for more chipsets (both AMD and Intel)


-- Veröffentlicht durch ocinside am 9:45 am 19. Okt. 2022

SiSoftware Sandra 2021 31.109 wurde online gestellt und kann nun von unserem Server heruntergeladen werden :thumb:


- Benchmarks, Hardware Support updates and fixes
Cluster Bandwidth Contribution: All Cache/Memory Benchmarks
It is the sum of the bandwidth of all cores in each cluster (%)
Reveals how much the big/P & LITTLE/E core clusters have contributed compute power wise to each benchmark score in percent: e.g. on Intel 12600K - Memory Bandwidth Benchmark:
60% big/P Cluster - 40% LITTLE/E Atom cluster
Core Bandwidth Ratio: All Cache/Memory Benchmarks
It is the ratio of the big/P Core vs. LITTLE/E core bandwidth (ratio)
Reveals just how much more performant the big/P Cores are vs. the LITTLE/E cores.
2.15x big/P Core - 1.x LITTLE/E Atom core

- Additional Hardware Support
Additional AMD Ryzen 7000 (Zen4) support
Enabled DDR5 SPD (Hub, PMIC, TS) AMD information
Additional Intel Sapphire Rapids (SRP-X/EX) support
Enabled DDR5 SPD (Hub, PMIC, TS) Intel information

- Example of performance contribution/ratio on Intel Core i5 12600K (ADL):
Cluster Bandwidth Contribution (per Cluster type)
Integer Memory Bandwidth : 64% big Cores Cluster – 32% LITTLE cores Cluster
Float Memory Bandwidth : 65% big Cores Cluster – 32% LITTLE cores Cluster
L1D (1st Level) Data Cache Bandwidth : 78% big Cores Cluster – 18% LITTLE cores Cluster
L2 (2nd Level) Unified/Data Cache Bandwidth : 89% big Cores Cluster – 7% LITTLE cores Cluster
L3 (3rd Level) Unified/Data Cache Bandwidth : 90% big Cores Cluster – 7% LITTLE cores Cluster
Note: Here we sum the memory bandwidth performance contribution for all cores in the type of cluster.
Note2: This feature also works on Arm64 big.LITTLE / DynamicQ SoCs, it is not tied to x86 Intel hybrid systems.
Cluster Bandwidth Ratio (per core type)
Integer Memory Bandwidth : 1.3x big-Core – 1.0x LITTLE-core
Float Memory Bandwidth : 1.4x big-Core – 1.0x LITTLE-core
L1D (1st Level) Data Cache Bandwidth : 2.9x big-Core – 1.0x LITTLE-core
L2 (2nd Level) Unified/Data Cache Bandwidth : 8.5x big-Core – 1.0x LITTLE-core
L3 (3rd Level) Unified/Data Cache Bandwidth : 8.6x big-Core – 1.0x LITTLE-core
Note: Here we divide the cluster performance contribution by the number of cores in each cluster – and then work out the big/LITTLE ratio. If SMT is enabled or not, we still only count the number of cores per cluster, not threads.


-- Veröffentlicht durch ocinside am 7:30 am 7. Sep. 2022

SiSoftware Sandra 2021 31.104 wurde online gestellt und kann nun von unserem Server heruntergeladen werden :thumb:


- Benchmarks, Hardware Support updates and fixes
Parallelism: All CPU/Memory Benchmarks
Additional Multi-Threaded big/P Cores Only aka only using threads running on big/P cores (SMT)
Note that as (current) LITTLE/E Atom cores do not support SMT, there is no corresponding option for them yet

Cache & Memory Bandwidth Benchmark
Improved/fixed hybrid bandwidth workload allocation when all cores types are used; e.g. on Intel 12600K:
Memory Bandwidth Improvement: 49GB/s to 56GB/s: +14% improvement (float AVX2/buffered)
L1D Cache Bandwidth – not affected/improvement
L2 Caches Bandwidth fix: 145GB/s to 836GB/s
L3 Cache Bandwidth fix: 56GB/s to 452GB/s

Cluster Performance Contribution: All CPU/Memory Benchmarks
It is the sum of the performance of all cores in each cluster (%)
Reveals how much the big/P & LITTLE/E core clusters have contributed compute power wise to each benchmark score in percent: e.g. on Intel 12600K - CPU Arithmetic Benchmark:
80% big/P Cluster - 20% LITTLE/E Atom cluster

Core Performance Ratio: All CPU/Memory Benchmarks
It is the ratio of the big/P Core vs. LITTLE/E core performance (ratio)
Reveals just how much more performant the big/P Cores are vs. the LITTLE/E cores.
2.15x big/P Core - 1.x LITTLE/E Atom core

- Future Hardware Support
Additional AMD Ryzen 7000 (Zen4) support
Enabled DDR5 SPD (Hub, PMIC, TS) AMD information
Additional Intel Sapphire Rapids (SRP-X/EX) support
Enabled DDR5 SPD (Hub, PMIC, TS) Intel information



-- Veröffentlicht durch ocinside am 9:13 am 24. Juli 2022

SiSoftware Sandra 2021 31.98 R15 wurde online gestellt und kann nun von unserem Server heruntergeladen werden :thumb:


CUDA GP-GPU Benchmarks
- Updated to CUDA SDK 11.8 with nVidia Ada support GeForce RTX 4090, et.]

Memory Bandwidth Benchmark
- 3-5% bandwidth increase due to L1D block/prefetch optimisations e.g. AVX512 AMD Zen4, Intel ICL-SP, future arch.

Memory Latency Benchmark
- "In-Page Random" memory access latency pattern – additional TLB ranges randomisation in addition to the randomisation within each TLB range. Credit Rob Williams @ TechGage – many thanks!
Benchmark now fails (does not run at all) if TLB information cannot be detected, e.g. CPU does not report it.
This change affects both Data and Code latencies.

- Note that the other tests "Full Random" and "Sequential" memory access patterns – are *not* affected – as the pattern is not affected by TLB data.

- It is always recommended to use "2MB/large" pages rather than "4kB/normal" pages in order to minimise "TLB miss" penalties which is the reason for the “in-page random” test. Please see How to enable large/huge memory pages in Windows.

Cryptography Benchmark
- 3-5% bandwidth increase due to L1D block/prefetch optimisations e.g. AVX512-VAES AMD Zen4, Intel ICL-SP, future arch.

Client (GUI)
- Light/Dark-mode colour optimisations


-- Veröffentlicht durch ocinside am 6:44 am 5. Juli 2022

SiSoftware Sandra 2021 31.97 R14c wurde online gestellt und kann nun von unserem Server heruntergeladen werden :thumb:


Memory Latency Benchmark
- "In-Page Random" memory access latency pattern – TLB range fix – that resulted in too-low memory score (latency) to be reported on modern Intel systems (e.g. AlderLake with large L3 cache).
- Better random number generator (2^32 vs. 2^15 states) in order to defeat any possible access pattern detection by the CPU.
- Note that the other tests "Full Random" and "Sequential" memory access patterns – arenot- affected - as the pattern is not affected by TLB data.
- It is always recommended to use "2MB/large" pages rather than "4kB/normal" pages in order to minimise TLB miss penalties which is the reason for the "in-page random" test.
- Reverted to testing latencies of all cores thus "Multi-Core" rather than just 1 thread/core "Single-Core" so that on hybrid systems (AlderLake, RaptorLake, etc.) the average/overall latency does not favour just to Big/P cores. This does increase run-time of test proportional with number of cores.

Memory Bandwidth Benchmark
- Increased buffer sizes for modern processors to match L1D cache size

Cryptography Benchmark
- fixed HWA code paths (AES, SHA) not engaging R13x regression

Hardware
- Resolved L2, L3, L4 caches counts detection R13x regression



-- Veröffentlicht durch ocinside am 14:06 am 14. Juni 2022

SiSoftware Sandra 2021 31.93 R14 wurde online gestellt und kann nun von unserem Server heruntergeladen werden :thumb:


- Hardware
Resolved L2 & L3 cache count detection [R13x regression]
- Client (GUI)
Light/Dark-mode font optimisations


-- Veröffentlicht durch ocinside am 7:32 am 19. Mai 2022

SiSoftware Sandra 2021 31.88 R13 wurde online gestellt und kann nun von unserem Server heruntergeladen werden :thumb:


- Hardware
Intel 4th gen Intel Xeon Sapphire Rapids ADL-SP AVX512+ support
Intel 3rd gen Intel Xeon Whitley Ice Lake ICL-SP AVX512+ support
AMD Ryzen 6000 Mobile platform
Future hardware support

- Benchmarks
Memory Bandwidth Benchmark: fixed failure with multiple cores/threads CPUs e.g. ICL-SP
Cache Bandwidth Benchmark: fixed failure with multiple cores/threads CPUs e.g. ICL-SP

- Client GUI
Light/Dark-mode font optimisations
Icon dynamic colour customisation


-- Veröffentlicht durch ocinside am 16:13 am 29. März 2022

SiSoftware Sandra 2021 31.81 R11 wurde gerade online gestellt :thumb:


Hardware Support, Updates & Fixes
- Intel AlderLake, RaptorLake – memory module sizes
- AMD Ryzen 5000+ series – memory module sizes
- Dark-mode detection
- Light/Dark-mode colours for benchmark items
- Light/Dark-mode font optimisations
- Icon dynamic colour customisation


-- Veröffentlicht durch ocinside am 7:14 am 1. März 2022

SiSoftware Sandra 2021 31.78 R10a wurde gerade online gestellt :thumb:


-- Veröffentlicht durch ocinside am 7:48 am 23. Feb. 2022

SiSoftware Sandra 2021 31.76 wurde online gestellt und kann nun von unserem Server heruntergeladen werden :thumb:


Multi-Media Benchmarks
- Integer Int16 / Int32 Arm64 128-bit NEON Benchmarks
+41% Int16 16×16 > 32 improvement [Pi4: 51MPix/s vs. 36.7]
+28% Int32 32×32 > 64 improvement [Pi4: 32MPix/s vs. 24.8]
+5% Int64 64×64 > 128 improvement
- Preliminary SVE/SVE2 Benchmarks

Cryptography Benchmarks
- Multi-Buffer Arm64 128-bit NEON Hashing Benchmarks
+100% improvement SHA2-256, SHA1
- Preliminary AES HWA hardware acceleration support AES256, AES128
- Preliminary SHA HWA hardware acceleration support SHA2-256, SHA1

Memory & Cache Benchmarks
- Buffered Arm64 128-bit NEON Integer/Floating-Point Benchmarks
+33% bandwidth improvement [Pi4: 8GB/s vs. 6GB/s]
- Preliminary SVE/SVE2 Benchmarks

Inter-Thread/Core/Module/Node/Package Transfers
- Arm64 128-bit NEON Transfers
+25% bandwidth improvement

Hardware
- AMD EPYC Milan module/core detection issues
- AMD EPYC Milan additional support


-- Veröffentlicht durch ocinside am 14:02 am 31. Jan. 2022

SiSoftware Sandra 2021 31.73 wurde online gestellt und kann nun von unserem Server heruntergeladen werden :thumb:


ARM64 AArch64 Support
- ARM Cortex AArch64 CPU/SoCs including A7X, A5X, A700, A500, X1
- Qualcomm Snapdragon 7c, 8cx / Kryo CPU/SoC
- Apple M1 through virtualization, e.g. Parallels VM
- Microsoft SQ1, SQ2 Surface X
- Broadcomm BCM CPU/SoC in Raspberry Pi 4B and the older Pi 3B+, 3B

Hardware
- Intel RaptorLake RPL 13th Gen Core preliminary support S/H
- Resolved memory reporting issues on Intel AlderLake ADL 12th Gen Core, RaptorLake RPL 13th Gen
- ARM NEON support for both AArch64 & AArch32

Memory & Cache Benchmarks
- Dynamic bandwidth workload allocator for big/LITTLE arch e.g. ARM DynamiQ, Intel Hybrid
Buffered Memory Bandwidth
Direct Cache L1D, L2, L3, L4 Bandwidth

CPU Benchmarks
- Dynamic work-allocator enabled by default on all benchmarks except where not possible
- Additional Core/Thread selection support
big/P Cores Only but not threads – thus 8T – only Core cores
LITTLE/E Cores Only thus 8T – only Atom cores
Multi-Threaded big/P Cores – only Core cores w/SMT – thus 16T
Single Thread big/P Core – 1T thus single Core core
Single Thread LITTLE/E Core – 1T thus single Atom core

New Operating System Support
- Windows 11
- Windows Server 2022 LTSC 21H2
- Windows Server vNext Windows 11 kernel


-- Veröffentlicht durch ocinside am 8:22 am 10. Jan. 2022

SiSoftware Sandra 2021 31.66 wurde online gestellt und kann nun von unserem Server heruntergeladen werden :thumb:


ARM64 (AArch64) Support
- ARM Cortex AArch64 CPU/SoCs including A7X, A5X, X1
- Qualcomm Snapdragon 7c / Kryo CPU/SoC
- Broadcomm BCM CPU/SoC in Raspberry Pi 4B (and the older Pi 3B+, 3B)

Hardware
- Intel RaptorLake (RPL) 13th Gen Core preliminary support (S/H)
- Resolved memory reporting issues on Intel AlderLake (ADL) 12th Gen Core

Memory & Cache Benchmarks
- Dynamic bandwidth workload allocator for big/LITTLE arch (e.g. ARM DynamiQ, Intel Hybrid)
Buffered Memory Bandwidth
Direct Cache L1D, L2, L3, L4 Bandwidth

CPU Benchmarks
- Dynamic work-allocator enabled by default on all benchmarks (except where not possible)
- Additional Core/Thread selection support
big/P Cores Only (but not threads – thus 8T) – only Core cores
LITTLE/E Cores Only (thus 8T) – only Atom cores
Multi-Threaded big/P Cores – only Core cores w/SMT – thus 16T
Single Thread big/P Core – (1T) thus single Core core
Single Thread LITTLE/E Core – (1T) thus single Atom core

Cache Latency
- Single-thread testing for shorter benchmark time
- big/LITTLE core latency test (L1D/L1I P/E, L2 P/E, L3, L4)

Memory & Cache Bandwidth
- Larger transfers improving bandwidth (AVX512, AVX2)
- big/LITTLE cores bandwidth (L1D/L1I P/E, L2 P/E, L3, L4)

New Operating System Support
- Windows 11
- Windows Server 2022 LTSC (21H2)
- Windows Server vNext (Windows 11 kernel)


-- Veröffentlicht durch ocinside am 7:42 am 28. Nov. 2021

SiSoftware Sandra 2021 31.60 R8x wurde gerade online gestellt :thumb:


-- Veröffentlicht durch ocinside am 8:05 am 23. Nov. 2021

SiSoftware Sandra 2021 31.59 R8x wurde online gestellt und kann von unserem Server runtergeladen werden :thumb:


- Memory & Cache Benchmarks
Dynamic bandwidth workload allocator for big/LITTLE arch (e.g. Intel AlderLake)
Buffered Memory Bandwidth
Direct Cache L1D, L2, L3 Bandwidth

- Hardware:
Crash (BSOD) on Intel AlderLake Desktop (ADL-S) Memory, Cache and Video, GP-GPU benchmarks.
If this is happening to you, please get it touch so that we can fix it. Many thanks!
Crash (BSOD) on Intel TigerLake H (TGL-H) Memory, Cache and Video, GP-GPU benchmarks.
If this is happening to you, please get it touch so that we can fix it. Many thanks!
Possible memory timing information issues on Intel TigerLake, AlderLake
Possible crash (BSOD) on AMD Ryzen Mobile (all versions) CPU benchmarks

- CPU Benchmarks:
Dynamic work-allocator enabled by default on all benchmarks (except where not possible)
Additional Core/Thread selection support
big/P Cores Only (but not threads – thus 8T) – only Core cores
LITTLE/E Cores Only (thus 8T) – only Atom cores
Multi-Threaded big/P Cores – only Core cores w/SMT – thus 16T
Single Thread big/P Core – (1T) thus single Core core
Single Thread LITTLE/E Core – (1T) thus single Atom core

- Cache Latency:
Single-thread testing for shorter benchmark time
big / LITTLE core latency test (L1D/L1I P/E, L2 P/E, L3)

- Memory & Cache Bandwidth:
Larger transfers improving bandwidth
big / LITTLE cores bandwidth (L1D/L1I P/E, L2 P/E, L3)

- New Operating System Support:
Windows 11
Windows Server 2022 LTSC (21H2)
Windows Server vNext (Windows 11 kernel)


-- Veröffentlicht durch ocinside am 14:54 am 20. Okt. 2021

SiSoftware Sandra 2021 31.49 R7a wurde online gestellt und kann von unserem Server runtergeladen werden :thumb:


Hardware:
Intel “Rocket Lake” (RKL) additional models update
Intel “Lakefield” (LKF) additional models update, hybrid updates (as per ADL)
Intel “Alder Lake” (ADL) additional models update
Fixed BSOD (blue-screen-of-death) when Core Isolation/Memory Integrity is enabled on AMD Ryzen systems
Fixed memory display issue on Intel SKL/KBL/CFL systems

CPU Benchmarks:
Dynamic work-allocator enabled by default on all benchmarks (except where not possible)
Additional Core/Thread selection support
“big/P Cores Only” (but not threads – thus 8T) – only “Core” cores
“LITTLE/E Cores Only” (thus 8T) – only “Atom” cores
“Multi-Threaded big/P Cores” – only “Core” cores w/SMT – thus 16T
“Single Thread big/P Core” – (1T) thus single “Core” core
“Single Thread LITTLE/E Core” – (1T) thus single “Atom” core

Cache Latency:
Single-thread testing for shorter benchmark time
big / LITTLE core latency test (L1D/L1I P/E, L2 P/E, L3)

Memory & Cache Bandwidth:
Dynamic work-allocator enabled on hybrid systems only for now (further testing needed)
Larger transfers improving bandwidth
big / LITTLE cores bandwidth (L1D/L1I P/E, L2 P/E, L3)

New Operating System Support:
Windows 11
Windows Server 2022 LTSC (21H2)
Windows Server vNext (Windows 11 kernel)


-- Veröffentlicht durch ocinside am 7:56 am 28. Sep. 2021

SiSoftware Sandra 2021 31.41 R6a wurde online gestellt und kann von unserem Server runtergeladen werden :thumb:


We are continuing to make improvements for hybrid (big/LITTLE) architectures - like Intel's Alder Lake (ADL). In addition to detection, there are scheduling and benchmark optimisations that are ongoing.

- Hardware Support, Updates & Fixes

- Intel Alder Lake (ADL) LITTLE/E cores detection and presentation

- Fixed BSOD (blue-screen-of-death) with Core Isolation/Memory Integrity enabled on Skylake+ (SKL) systems

- CPU Benchmarks:

- Additional Core/Thread selection support
big/P Cores Only (but not threads - thus 8T) - only Core cores
LITTLE/E Cores Only (thus 8T) - only Atom cores
Multi-Threaded big/P Cores - only Core cores w/SMT - thus 16T
Single Thread big/P Core - (1T) thus single Core core
Single Thread LITTLE/E Core - (1T) thus single Atom core

- Cache Latencies:
- big / LITTLE core latency test (L1D/L1I P/E, L2 P/E, L3)

- Cache Bandwidths:
- big / LITTLE cores bandwidth (L1D/L1I P/E, L2 P/E, L3)

- New Operating System Support:
- Windows 11
- Windows Server 2022


-- Veröffentlicht durch ocinside am 15:28 am 4. Sep. 2021

SiSoftware Sandra 2021 31.37 wurde online gestellt und kann nun von unserem Server runtergeladen werden :thumb:


When we introduced the crypto-processor (TPM) benchmark and information module in Sandra 20/21 – we had no idea that just a few months later Microsoft would mandate its presence for the newly announced Windows 11. With this R5 update we are now expanding on both benchmarking and information, allowing both users and reviewers to view, test and benchmark their TPMs.

Sandra supports both the mandated TPM 2.0 as well as older TPM 1.2 devices (with reduced algorithm support), discrete hardware TPMs, platform-based TPMs (e.g. Intel/PTT, AMD/PSP) and virtual TPMs (e.g. Hyper-V, VmWare).
Hardware Support, Updates & Fixes

- Crypto-Processor (TPM) Benchmark:
- China Algorithms test: SM3/256 hashing and SM4-128 encrypt/decrypt

- Crypto-Processor (TPM) Information:
- Additional algorithms support (SM3/256, SM4-128)

- New Operating System Support:
- Windows 11
- Windows Server 2022


-- Veröffentlicht durch ocinside am 15:32 am 28. Juni 2021

SiSoftware Sandra 202131.29  wurde online gestellt und kann nun von unserem Server runtergeladen werden :thumb:


Benchmark Support, Updates & Fixes
- All CPU Benchmarks: internal stability fixes; additional AVX512 optimisations.
- All GP-GPU Benchmarks: internal stability fixes; additional Ampere Ti optimisations.



-- Veröffentlicht durch ocinside am 17:11 am 2. Juni 2021

SiSoftware Sandra 2021 31.25 wurde online gestellt und kann nun von unserem Server runtergeladen werden :thumb:


-- Veröffentlicht durch ocinside am 12:48 am 24. Mai 2021

SiSoftware Sandra 2021 31.23 wurde online gestellt und kann nun von unserem Server runtergeladen werden :thumb:


Benchmark Support, Updates & Fixes
- CPU Scientific Benchmark: greatly improved AVX512 GEMM (SGEMM, DGEMM) performance by using the larger 48kB L1D cache (on RKL and ICL-SP) and better prefetch. [note AVX2/FMA3 performance is also improved to some extent]

- CPU Inter-Thread Efficiency Benchmark: reasonably improved AVX512 inter-thread transfers by using larger transfer blocks that take advantage of the larger 48kB L1D cache (on RKL and ICL-SP). [note AVX2/FMA3 performance is also improved to some extent]

- Memory Bandwidth Benchmark:  modestly improved AVX512 bandwidth transfers by using the larger 48kB L1D cache( on RKL and ICL-SP) and smarter prefetching. [note AVX2/FMA3 performance is also improved to some extent]

Hardware Support, Updates & Fixes
- All CPU Benchmarks: support Intel Pentium & Celeron (Atom “JasperLake”).
- All CPU Benchmarks: preliminary support Intel Xeon (“IceLake-SP”).
- All CPU Benchmarks: optimised Intel Core/Atom Hybrid (“Lakefield”) performance.
- All CPU Benchmarks: initial fixes for detection that fails to detect TDP/other power values on AMD Mobile Ryzen all - series. Please contact us if you have such a processor and can help with troubleshooting.

Additional Support, Updates & Fixes
- Branding update: all brand images have re-done in high resolution for modern displays.
- SiSoftware Official Benchmark Ranker: graphics update with new logo and rosette for #1 (gold), #2 (silver), #3 (bronze) and lower ratings.
- All websites: Cloudflare CDN (HTTPS/3) to reduce client load times and support times of high load that would overwhelm the Ranker servers and cause DOS. Please contact us if you experience any issues.



-- Veröffentlicht durch ocinside am 15:15 am 20. April 2021

Ich weiß gar nicht seit wie vielen Jahrzehnten ich es einsetze, aber ich meine es bereits mit einem der letzten 486er oder zumindest mit der ersten Pentium Serie verwendet zu haben :godlike:

Apropos, SiSoftware Sandra 2021 31.20 wurde gerade als neue Version mit jede Menge Fixes online gestellt und kann nun von unserem Server runtergeladen werden :thumb:


Benchmark Support, Updates & Fixes
- CPU "Multi-Core Efficiency" Benchmark: renamed to CPU "Inter-Thread Efficiency" Benchmark as it now measures and displays inter-thread/core/module (CCX)/node (die)/pakage (socket) thread latencies.
- CPU Inter-Thread Efficiency Benchmark: enabled 512-bit/AVX512 inter-thread transfers for higher bandwidth utilisation on larger block sizes (64kB+).
- CPU Inter-Thread Efficiency Benchmark: reduce latency reported to just one mutex average not both (sum producer/consumer).
- All CPU Benchmarks: expanded CPU microcode version from 2 digits to 8 digits.
- All GP-GPU Benchmarks: latest nVidia run-time (driver version 456+ CUDA/OpenCL) now includes company name in device name which results in duplicated company name (e.g. "nVidia NVIDIA 2080Ti") that is pretty ugly.
- CUDA GP-GPU Benchmarks: updated to CUDA 11.3 SDK.

Hardware Support, Updates & Fixes
- All CPU Benchmarks: fix scheduler that fails to detect additional modules/CCXes on AMD Ryzen 3000-series – resulting in poor performance (all threads on CCX0).
- All CPU Benchmarks: fix scheduler that fails to detect cores on old AMD (Athlon/Phenom) and Intel (Core 1/2) processors – resulting in poor performance (all threads on core 0).
- All CPU Benchmarks: fix for failure to display results/scores on some Windows 10 systems.
- All CPU Benchmarks: initial fixes for detection that fails to detect TDP/other power values on AMD Mobile Ryzen all series. Please contact us if you have such a processor and can help with troubleshooting.
- Please accept our apologies if you have been affected by the above issues; they are due to incorrectly skipped testing that has been addressed.

Additional Support, Updates & Fixes
- Branding update: all brand images have re-done in high resolution for modern displays.
- SiSoftware Official Benchmark Ranker: server has been replaced with a newer/faster server with the latest HTTP updates (HTTPS/2, BR(otli), etc.)
- SiSoftware Official Benchmark Ranker: far larger number of reference benchmark results (150/300 from 15/100) downloaded thanks to server update.
- All websites: Cloudflare CDN (HTTPS/3) to reduce client load times and support times of high load that would overwhelm the Ranker servers and cause DOS.



-- Veröffentlicht durch MHz1988 am 21:56 am 30. März 2021

Sisoftware habe ich viele jahre nicht mehr verwendet.
Ich finds mittlerweile wieder gut.


-- Veröffentlicht durch ocinside am 18:14 am 4. März 2021

Gerade wurde eine neue Version von SiSoftware Sandra 20/21 (2021) für Windows 10, Windows 8.1, Windows 7, Server 2016, 2012/R2 und 2008/R2 veröffentlicht.

SiSoft Sandra Lite 2021 steht natürlich wieder auf unserem Server als Download bereit und kann dort runtergeladen werden:
SiSoftware Sandra Lite 2021
Die älteren SiSoftware Sandra Versionen stehen dort ebenfalls weiterhin als Archiv zur Verfügung.

Hier sind die neuen Features:


New Information Modules:
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* Crypto-Processor (TPM)

Information about the crypto-processor installed in your computer.

* Storage Spaces (Direct)

Information about the storage clusters, nodes, pools (software RAID) and the virtual disks connected to your computer.

* Virtual Machine Computers

Information about the virtual machine (VM) guests hosted by your computer (MS Hyper-V, VmWare Workstation)

* Biometrics

Information about the biometric identification devices connected to your computer.


New Benchmarks:
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* Crypto-Processor (TPM) Benchmark

Benchmark the cryptographic performance of the crypto-processor (TPM). Measure the random number generator, hashing (SHA, etc.), encryption/decryption (AES) bandwidth.

* Internet DNS Benchmark

Benchmark the performance of the DNS service. Measure the latency of both cached and un-cached DNS queries to local and remote DNS servers.

* Overall Software VM (.Net/Java) Score

A combined performance index all software VM engine benchmarks, .Net (CLR) Arithmetic, Multi-Media and Java (JVM) Arimetic and Multi-Media.


Updated Benchmarks:
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* Processor Multi-Core Efficiency Benchmark

Separate reporting of different type latencies (inter-thread/core/module/node/die/package/socket), e.g. when testing multi-module (CCX on AMD) processors:

Inter-Thread (same Core) Latency : (ns)
Inter-Core (same Module) Latency : (ns)
Inter-big/LITTLE Core (same Module, different Core Type) Latency : (ns)
Inter-Module (same Package) Latency : (ns)
Inter-Node/Die (same Package) Latency : (ns)
Inter-Package (different Socket) Latency: (ns)


Updated Client (GUI):
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Brand-new "dark-mode" using native operating system (Windows 10+, Server 2019+) theme and colours, with automatic "light/dark" switch based on schedule. The Official SiSoftware Ranker has also been "dark-mode" enabled with theme selected based on web-browser setting.


* Brand-new hardware support and optimisations for brand-new CPU & GP-GPU architectures:

- AMD
- AMD Ryzen CPU 5000-series (Zen3)
- AMD Radeon RX 6000 GP-GPU (RDNA2, Navi2)
- Hygon/AMD CPU (Zen)
- All the fixes in the very latest Sandra 20/20

- Intel
- Preliminary Intel Core Gen 11 ("RocketLake" RKL), Gen 12 ("Alderlake" ADL)
- Intel Core Gen 11  ("TigerLake" TGL), Iris Xe (Gen12) graphics
- Intel DG1 (Iris Xe Max) dedicated graphics
- All the fixes in the very latest Sandra 20/20

- nVidia
- nVidia GeForce RTX 3000-series (Ampere) CUDA 8.x

- Zhaoxin/Centaur
- ZHAOXIN KaiXian KX-6000, KX-5000



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