What are AVX, AVX512? AVX or “Advanced Vector eXtensions” is a family of SIMD instructions on x86/x64 that have expanded the old SSE/2 (Streaming SIMD Extensions) that themselves have extended/expanded the original SIMD x86 instruction set: MMX (Multi-Media eXtensions). AVX2 increases the width to 256-bit while AVX512 increases the width … Read more…
Note: Version R10a (aka 31.78) has replaced R10 (aka 31.76-77). We are pleased to release R10a (version 31.78) update for Sandra 20/21 with the following changes: Sandra 20/21 Press Release We are releasing more benchmark updates for ARM/Arm64 after additional testing with support for additional hardware as tested in the … Read more…
We are pleased to release R9z (version 31.73) update for Sandra 20/21 with the following changes: Sandra 20/21 Press Release 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 … Read more…
Note: Versions R9a-x have now been updated to R9z. We are pleased to release R9 (version 31.66) update for Sandra 20/21 with the following changes: Sandra 20/21 Press Release Happy New Year 2022! After a good test, we are now shipping Sandra with ARM64 support for Windows – running on … Read more…
What is big.LITTLE? ARM’s big.LITTLE arch made big waves on launch way back in 2011; it was heralded as a great way to combine performance with power: a “big” (computationally powerful but power hungry) core was to be coupled with a “LITTLE” (slow but low-power) core – and switched as … Read more…
