SiSoftware Sandra 20/20/12 (2020 R12) Updates & Fixes

As we move towards Sandra 20/21 release, we are pleased to release R12 (version 30.85) update for Sandra 20/20 (2020) with the following changes:

Sandra 20/20 (2020) Press Release

Optimisations & Fixes:

• CPU Crypto Benchmark:
  • AES HWA acceleration not used when available. [30.81 fix]
  • VAES / AVX2 HWA acceleration may not be used on AMD Zen3. [30.85 fix]
• CPU Support:
  • Intel TigerLake (TGL) memory details system crash (blue screen).
• GP-GPU Support:
  • Intel TigerLake (TGL) video/GP details system crash (blue screen).
  • Updated AMD video detection support.
• Disk Support:
  • Microsoft Storage Spaces (Direct) storage pools support.
  • Various (e.g. Micron) NVMe SSD detection.

Reviews using Sandra 20/20:

• BabelTechReviews
  • AMD GP-GPUs
    • The Red Devil RX 6900 XT 50-game Review vs. the RTX 3090 FE (Part 1)
  • nVidia
    • The RTX 3070 FE Arrives at $499 to Match the RTX 2080 Ti’s Performance
    • The RTX 3090 Founders Edition Performance Revealed – 35+ Games, SPEC & Workstation & GPGPU Benchmarked
    • The RTX 3080 Arrives – Ampere Performance Revealed – 35+ Games & GPGPU Benchmarked
• SiSoftware
  • AMD CPUs/GP-GPUs
    • AMD Radeon RX 6800 (RDNA2, Navi2) Review & Benchmarks – GPGPU Performance
    • AMD Ryzen 9 5950X (Zen3) – CPU 16-core/32-thread Performance
    • AMD Ryzen 5 5600X (Zen3) – CPU 6-core/12-thread Performance
    • AMD Ryzen 7 5800X (Zen3) – CPU 8-core/16-thread Performance
  • nVidia GP-GPUs
    • nVidia 3090, 3080 RTX: Ampere GPGPU performance in CUDA and OpenCL
  • Microsoft
    • Performance Impact of Hyper-V virtualisation (Windows 10 Pro) – Compute
  • Intel CPUs / APUs
    • Intel DG1 Discrete (Iris Xe Max Gen12) Review & Benchmarks – GPGPU Performance
    • AVX512-IFMA(52) Improvement for IceLake and TigerLake
    • Intel Core Gen11 TigerLake ULV (i7-1165G7) Review & Benchmarks – CPU AVX512 Performance
    • Intel Iris Plus G7 Gen12 XE TigerLake ULV (i7-1165G7) Review & Benchmarks – GPGPU Performance

Update & Download

Commercial version customers can download the free updates from their software distributor; Lite users please download from your favourite download site.

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