Intel 11th Gen Core RocketLake AVX512 Performance Improvement vs AVX2/FMA3

What is AVX512? AVX512 (Advanced Vector eXtensions) is the 512-bit SIMD instruction set that follows from previous 256-bit AVX2/FMA3/AVX instruction set. Originally introduced by Intel with its “Xeon Phi” GPGPU accelerators – albeit in a somewhat different form – it has finally made it to its desktop CPU lines with … Read more…

SiSoftware Sandra 20/21-R1X Updates and Fixes

Service Pack 1 (SP1) Download

We are pleased to release R1X (version 31.20) update for Sandra 20/21 with the following changes: Sandra 20/21 Press Release Note: We have also back-ported most of the fixes to release R16x (version 30.120) update for Sandra 20/20 out now. Please update to this version of you are still using … Read more…

Intel Iris Gen 12 (UHD 750) Rocketlake Review & Benchmarks – GP-GPU Performance

Intel iRIS Xe Gen 12

What is “RocketLake”? It is the desktop/workstation version of the true “next generation” Core (gen 10+) architecture  – finally replacing the ageing “Skylake (SKL)” arch and its many derivatives that are still with us (“CometLake (CML)”, etc.). It is a combination of the “IceLake (ICL)” CPU cores launched about a … Read more…