We are pleased to release R9z (version 31.73) update for Sandra 20/21 with the following changes:
We are releasing a pretty significant benchmark update for ARM/Arm64 after additional testing with support for additional hardware as tested in the field.
We are continuing to make multi-threading improvements across all benchmarks and other modules, including hybrid (big/LITTLE, DynamiQ) architectures, both x86/x64 and ARM/ARM64. Further scheduling and benchmark optimisations are ongoing.
We have a brand-new dynamic workload scheduler for the memory and cache bandwidth benchmarks which takes into account each core’s performance – similar to the processor benchmarks workload scheduler. This way the bandwidth of different cores (big & LITTLE) can be measured in parallel. This works both on the standard x86/x64 platform as well as traditional ARM big/LITTLE platforms.
Please don’t forget to submit benchmark results to the Official SiSoftware Ranker! Many thanks for your continued support.
And please, don’t forget small ISVs like ourselves in these very challenging times. Please buy a copy of Sandra if you find our software useful. Your custom means everything to us!
Hardware Support, Updates & Fixes
- 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 Pro X)
- Broadcom BCM CPU/SoC in Raspberry Pi 3B*, 3B+*, 4B
- Note: BCM SoCs do not include AES/SHA/SM hardware acceleration (!!!)
- 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
- Note: BCM SoCs nor any current Windows device support SVE (Scalable Vector eXtensions).
- 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
- Processor Cluster Support
- Two (2) cluster support for Intel Hybrid [x64]
- Three (3) cluster support for AMD DynamiQ [Arm64]
- Dynamic bandwidth workload allocator for big/LITTLE arch (e.g. ARM DynamiQ, Intel Hybrid)
- Inter-Thread/Core/Module/Node/Package Transfers
- Inter-big/P-Cores Only Latency additional tests
- Inter-LITTLE/E-Cores Only Latency additional tests
- New Operating System Support:
- Windows 11 (x86, x64, ARM, Arm64)
- Windows Server 2022 LTSC (21H2) (x64)
- Windows Server vNext LTSC (2025*) (x64, Arm64)
Reviews using Sandra 20/21:
- SiSoftware
- Microsoft SoC / Surface Pro X
- Broadcom SoC / Raspberry Pi
- TPMs
- Intel CPU / SoC
- Intel 12th Gen Core AlderLake (i9-12900K(F)) Review & Benchmarks – big/LITTLE Performance
- Mythical Intel 12th Gen Core AlderLake 10C/20T big/P Cores (i11-12999X) – AVX512 Extrapolated Performance 😉
- Mythical Intel 12th Gen Core AlderLake 40C/40T E-Cores (i11-12911E) – AVX2 Extrapolated Performance 😉
- big/Performance Core Performance Analysis (Intel 12th Gen Core AlderLake (i9-12900K))
- SiSoftware Official Ranker
- Intel Arc “Alchemist” A380 Graphics
- Intel Arc “Alchemist” A370M Mobile Graphics + Intel Iris Xe Internal Graphics
- Microsoft SQ2 Arm64 (Microsoft Surface X)
- Qualcomm Snapdragon 7c Arm64 (ECS SF40QT)
- Raspberry Pi 4 Model B Arm64 (Broadcom BCM2711)
- Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+ Arm64 (Broadcom BCM2837)
- Apple Silicon on Parallels VM
Update & Download
Commercial version customers can download the free updates from their software distributor; Lite users please download from your favourite download site.
