Product Reviews – Benchmarking 101

SiSoftware hardware reviews and articles on benchmarking:

2021 – Reviews with Sandra 20/21

	Intel 14th Gen Core RaptorLake-Refresh (i7 14700K(F)) Review & Benchmarks – Hybrid Top-End Performance Intel 13th Gen Core RaptorLake (i9 13900K(F)) PreView & Benchmarks – Hybrid Performance Intel 13th Gen Core RaptorLake (i5 13600K(F)) PreView & Benchmarks – Mid-Range Hybrid Intel 13th Gen Core AlderLake-Refresh (i5 13400) PreView & Benchmarks – Value Hybrid Efficiency big/LITTLE cores Performance Analysis – Intel Core AlderLake to RaptorLake Intel Xeon W9 HEDT Sapphire Rapids Preview & Benchmarks Intel 12th Gen Core AlderLake Mobile (i7-12700H) Review & Benchmarks – Hybrid Mobile Performance Intel 12th Gen Core AlderLake (i9 12900K) Review & Benchmarks – Hybrid Top-End Performance Intel 11th Gen Core RocketLake AVX512 Performance Improvement vs. AVX2/FMA3 Intel Core Gen 11 RocketLake (i9 11900K) Review & Benchmarks – Top-End AVX512 Performance Intel Core Gen 11 RocketLake (i7 11700K) Review & Benchmarks – Mainstream AVX512 Performance
	Intel ARC (“Alchemist”) A380 GP-GPU Graphics – OpenCL Performance Intel 11th Gen Core RocketLake – Cache & Memory Performance (2x DDR4-3200) Intel Iris Gen 12 (UHD 750) Rocketlake (i7 11700K) Review & Benchmarks – GP-GPU Performance
	AMD Ryzen 7 7800X-3D (Zen4 V-Cache) Review & Benchmarks – VCache for the Win! AMD Ryzen 9 7950X-3D (Zen4 V-Cache) Review & Benchmarks – A hybrid cache too far AMD Ryzen 9 7950X (Zen4 Raphael) Review & Benchmarks – AVX512 Top-End Domination AMD Ryzen 7 7700X (Zen4 Raphael) Review & Benchmarks – AVX512 Mainstream Performance AMD Ryzen 5 7600X (Zen4 Raphael) Review & Benchmarks – Value AVX512 Performance AMD Ryzen 7 5800X-3D (Zen3 V-Cache) Review & Benchmarks – CPU Performance
	Microsoft Surface Pro X – Windows Arm64 on Microsoft SQ2 Performance Windows 11 Arm64 WoW – x64 Emulation Performance Windows 10 Arm64 WoW – x86 Emulation Performance
	Windows Arm64 on Qualcomm Snapdragon 7c Performance
	Raspberry Pi 4B Review: Windows Arm64 on Broadcom BCM2711 Raspberry Pi 3B+ Review: Windows Arm64 on Broadcom BCM2837
	Crypto-processor (TPM) Benchmarking: Discrete vs. AMD, Intel, Microsoft Hyper-V

2020 – Reviews with Sandra 20/20

	AMD Radeon RX 6900XT (RDNA2, Navi2X) Review & Benchmarks – GP-GPU Performance AMD Radeon RX 6800 (RDNA2, Navi2L) Review & Benchmarks – GP-GPU Performance AMD Ryzen 9 5950X (Zen3) – CPU 16-core/32-thread Performance AMD Ryzen 7 5800X (Zen3) – CPU 8-core/16-thread Performance AMD Ryzen 5 5600X (Zen3) – CPU 6-core/12-thread Performance
	nVidia RTX 3090, 3080: Ampere GPGPU performance in CUDA and OpenCL nVidia RTX 2080Ti: Turing GPGPU performance in CUDA and OpenCL
	Intel DG1 Discrete (Iris Xe Max Gen12) Review & Benchmarks – GP-GPU Performance Intel Core Gen 11 TigerLake ULV (i7-1165G7) – CPU AVX512 Performance Intel Iris Plus G7 Gen12 XE TigerLake ULV (i7-1165G7) – GP-GPU Performance AVX512-IFMA(52) Improvement for IceLake and TigerLake Benchmarks of JCC Erratum Mitigation – Intel CPUs Intel Core Gen 10 CometLake (i9-10900K) – CPU 10-core/20-thread Performance Intel Core Gen 10 IceLake ULV (i7-1065G7) – CPU AVX512 Performance Intel Iris Plus G7 Gen 11 IceLake ULV (i7-1065G7) – GP-GPU Performance AVX512 Improvement for Icelake Mobile (i7-1065G7 ULV)
	ZHAOXIN KaiXian KX-U6780A Benchmarks – CPU Performance
	Performance Impact of Hyper-V virtualisation (Windows 10 Pro) – Compute

2019-2018 – Reviews with Sandra Titanium (2018)

	nVidia Titan V/X : FP16 and Tensor CUDA Performance nVidia Titan X : Pascal GP (GPU) Performance in CUDA & OpenCL nVidia Titan V : Volta GP (GPU) Performance in CUDA & OpenCL
	Intel Core i9 10980X (Cascade Lake) – CPU 18-core/36-thread AVX512 Performance Intel Core Gen10 CometLake ULV (i7-10510U) – CPU Performance Intel Core i9 9900K CofeeLake-R – CPU 8-core/16-thread Performance Intel Core i9 9900K CofeeLake-R – 2-channel DDR4 Cache & Memory Performance Intel Core i7 8700K CofeeLake – CPU 6-core/12-thread Performance Intel Core i7 8700K CofeeLake – 2-channel DDR4 Cache & Memory Performance Intel Core CofeeLake/R Graphics – UHD 630 GP (GPU) Performance
	AMD Ryzen 9 3900X (Zen2) – CPU 12-core/24-thread Performance AMD Ryzen 7 3700X (Zen2) – CPU 8-core/16-thread Performance AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3970X, 3960X Review & Benchmarks – CPU Performance AMD Radeon 5700XT: (RDNA, Navi) – GP-GPU Performance in OpenCL AMD Radeon VII: Vega2 GP GPU Performance in OpenCL AMD Ryzen 5 Mobile (2500U) – CPU Performance AMD Ryzen 5 Mobile (2500U) – Cache & Memory Performance AMD Ryzen+ Mobile (2500U) – Vega 8 GP (GPU) Performance AMD Ryzen 7 2700X, 2600 (Zen+) – CPU 8-core/16-thread Performance AMD Ryzen 7 2700X, 2600 (Zen+) – 2-channel DDR4 Cache & Memory Performance

2017-2016 – Reviews with Sandra Platinum (2016)

	Intel Core i9 7900X (SKL-X) – CPU 10-core/20-thread AVX512 Performance Intel Core i9 7900X (SKL-X) – 4-channel @ 3200Mt/s Cache & Memory Performance AVX512 Improvement for Skylake-X (Core i9-7900X)
	AMD Threadripper 1950X (Zen) – CPU 16-core/32-thread Performance AMD Threadripper 1950X (Zen) – 4-channel DDR4 Cache & Memory Performance NUMA Improvement for AMD ThreadRipper (1950X) AMD Ryzen 1700X – CPU 8-core/16-thread Performance AMD Ryzen 1700X – Cache and Memory Performance

2015-2014 – Reviews with Sandra Gold (2015)

	AMD A4 “Mullins” APU CPU: Time does not stand still… AMD A4 “Mullins” APU GP (GPU) (Radeon R4): Time does not stand still…
	Microsoft .Net Vectors (CLR 4.6 RyuJIT) Performance
	Intel Graphics GP (GPU) Performance Intel Atom X7 (CherryTrail 2015) CPU: Closing on Core M? Intel Atom X7 (CherryTrail 2015) GP (GPU): Closing on Core M?
	ARM big.LITTLE: The trouble with heterogeneous multi-processing: when 4 are better than 8 (or when 8 is not always the “lucky” number) Samsung Exynos 5433 64-bit Cortex A57/A53: Krait Killer? ARM Mali T760 GP (GPU) (Exynos 5433 SoC): FP64 Champion – Adreno Killer?