We are pleased to release R9 (version 30.69) update for Sandra 20/20 (2020) with the following updates: Sandra 20/20 (2020) Press Release GPGPU Benchmarks CUDA SDK 11.3+ update for nVidia “Ampere” (SM8.x) – deprecated SM3.x support OpenCL SDK updated to 1.2 minimum, 2.x recommended and 3.x experimental. Increased addressing in … Read more…
Note: The original R8 release has been updated to R8t with future hardware support. We are pleased to release R8t (version 30.61) update for Sandra 20/20 (2020) with the following updates: Sandra 20/20 (2020) Press Release JCC Erratum Mitigation Recent Intel processors (SKL “Skylake” and later but not ICL “IceLake”) … Read more…
We are pleased to release R7 (version 30.49) update for Sandra 20/20 (2020) with the following updates: Sandra 20/20 (2020) Press Release Updates & Optimisations CPU Benchmarks: AMD Ryzen 4000 series (APU) preliminary support. GPGPU (CUDA/OpenCL) Benchmarks: nVidia Ampere preliminary support. Database: Optimise performance when accessing/updating benchmark results. Branding (Benchmarks/Ranker): … Read more…
We are pleased to release R6 (version 30.45) update for Sandra 20/20 (2020) with the following updates: Sandra 20/20 (2020) Press Release Internet DNS Benchmark Benchmark the performance of the DNS service. Measure the latency of both cached and un-cached DNS queries to local and remote DNS servers. Internet Overall … Read more…
We are pleased to release R5 (version 30.41) update for Sandra 20/20 (2020) with the following updates: Sandra 20/20 (2020) Press Release Benchmarks: Internet Connection, Internet Peerage Benchmarks: updated list of top websites to test against; additional multi-threading optimisations Hardware Support: Additional IceLake (ICL Gen10 Core), Future* (RKL, TGL Gen11 … Read more…
What is AVX512? AVX512 (Advanced Vector eXtensions) is the 512-bit SIMD instruction set that follows from previous 256-bit AVX2/FMA/AVX instruction set. Originally introduced by Intel with its “Xeon Phi” GPGPU accelerators, it was next introduced on the HEDT platform with Skylake-X (SKL-X/EX/EP) but until now it was not avaible on … Read more…
Note: The original R4 release text has been updated below. The (*) denotes new changes. We are pleased to release R4a (version 30.39) update for 20/20 (2020) with the following updates: Sandra 20/20 (2020) Press Release Benchmarks: Crypto AES Benchmarks*: Optimised AVX512/AVX2-VAES code to outperform AES-HWA where possible. Crypto SHA … Read more…
We are pleased to release R3 (version 30.31) update for 20/20 (2020) with the following updates: Sandra 20/20 (2020) Press Release Hardware Support: Additional PCIe extended capabilities support CPU Cyrptography Benchmarks: Block size changed to ~1500 bytes similar to Ethernet packet Various stability and reliability improvements GPGPU Cyrptography Benchmarks: Block … Read more…
We are pleased to release R2 (version 30.27) update for 20/20 (2020) with the following updates: Sandra 20/20 (2020) Press Release Hardware Support: PCIe extended capabilities support Software Support: ReFS format Disk benchmark stability issues CPU Benchmarks: Tools (Visual C++ compiler 2019) Update GPGPU Benchmarks: CUDA: Updated SDK 10.2/10.1 OpenCL: … Read more…
Update November 25th: Released patch (version 30.24) to add further hardware and software support. Update October 24th: Released patch (version 30.21) to corrrect Windows 7 / Server 2008/R2 run-time issues. We are pleased to release R1 (version 30.24) update for 20/20 (2020) with the following updates: Sandra 20/20 (2020) Press … Read more…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Press Office SiSoftware Sandra 20/20 (2020) Released: Brand-new benchmarks (AI/ML), hardware support Superseded By: SiSoftware Sandra 20/21 (2021). Updates: R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, R7, R8, R9, R10, R11, R12, R13, R14, R16. London, UK, July 18th, 2019 – We are pleased to announce the … Read more…
What is a Recurrent Neural Network (RNN/LSTM)? A RNN is a type of neural network that is primarily made of of neurons that store their previous states thus are said to ‘have memory’. In effect this allows them to ‘remember’ patterns or sequences. However, they can still be used as … Read more…
What is a Convolution Neural Network (CNN/ConvNet)? A CNN is a type of neural network that is primarily made of of neuron layers connected in such a way that they perform convolution over the previous layers: in effect they are filters over the input – the same way a blur/sharpen/edge/etc … Read more…
Note: Updated 2019/June with information regarding MDS as well as change of recent CFL-R microcode vulnerability reporting. We are pleased to release SP4/a/c (version 28.69) update for Sandra Titanium (2018) with the following updates: Sandra Titanium (2018) Press Release Reporting of Operating System (Windows) speculation control settings for the recently … Read more…
