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SiSoftware Sandra (the Arrangement ANalyser, Diagnostic and Reporting Banana) is an information & diagnostic utility. It should provide nigh of the information (including undocumented) you need to know almost your hardware, software and other devices whether hardware or software. Sandra is a (girl) name of Greek origin that means "defender", "helper of flesh". Nosotros think that's quite fitting.

It works forth the lines of other Windows utilities, however it tries to go beyond them and show you more of what'southward really going on. Giving the user the ability to describe comparisons at both a high and depression-level. Y'all tin get information about the CPU, chipset, video adapter, ports, printers, sound carte, memory, network, Windows internals, AGP, PCI, PCIe, ODBC Connections, USB2, 1394/Firewire, etc.

Native Unicode ports for 32-bit Windows (2000/XP/2003/Vista), 64-bit & x64 Windows (XP/2003/Vista) too equally Windows CE (Pocket PC 2002/2003/2003SE, Smart Telephone 2002/2003/2003SE, CE .Internet 4.20) are available.

  • Criterion UI Change: Select Multi-Threading, Multi-Core, Unmarried-Thread

While information technology was always possible in Sandra to disable hyper-threading (HT) to use only physical cores/modules or disable multi-cadre (MC) to employ only sockets/packages or only ane thread - by using Options - nosotros decided to arrive easier to use.

So now you tin can test either MT, MC, ST - which can be useful on processors that use Turbo/dynamic overclocking and can heave fewer threads to higher speeds.

You tin too run on all APs (application processors) - just not the BSP (boot processor, aka thread 0) just in case the BSP causes AP threads to wait for it to terminate and thus filibuster the completion of the test (even at present there are some problematic systems).

Single-thread will apply an AP non the BSP as generally the BSP is loaded with other tasks (e.one thousand. interrupts).

Note: Sandra uses its own scheduler - thus does not depend on Windows to schedule the threads on specific socket/core (and perchance park the rest). NUMA is besides fully supported and the right NUMA node will be selected every bit advisable for the package/cadre the thread should run on.

Full general Sandra Information

Here are the version types, in line with industry standards:

  • Sandra Calorie-free (costless for personal/educational use - no nag screens, time limit, etc.)
  • Sandra Advanced (for OEMs)
  • Sandra Professional (commercial)
  • Sandra Engineer (commercially exploitabile)
  • Sandra Enterprise (commercial)
  • Sandra Legacy (home enthusiast)

Listing of SiSoftware Sandra Modules:

  • System Summary
  • Mainboard/Chipset/System Monitors Info
  • CPU/BIOS Info
  • APM & ACPI (Avant-garde Power Management) Info
  • PCI(eastward), AGP, CardBus, PCMCIA bus and devices Info
  • Video Data (monitor, card, video bios, caps, etc.)
  • OpenGL Data
  • DirectX (DirectDraw, Direct3D, DirectSound (3D), DirectMusic, DirectPlay, DirectInput) Info
  • Keyboard Info
  • Mouse Info
  • Audio Card (wave, midi, aux, mix) Info
  • MCI Devices (mpeg, avi, seq, vcr, video-disc, moving ridge) Info
  • Joystick Info
  • Printers Info
  • Windows Retentiveness Info
  • Windows Info
  • Font (Raster, Vector, TrueType, OpenType) Information
  • Modem/ISDN TA Information
  • Network Information
  • IP Network Data
  • WinSock & Internet Security Data
  • Drives Information (Removable Hard Disks, CD-ROM/DVD, RamDrives, etc.)
  • Ports (Serial/Parallel) Info
  • Remote Admission Service Connections (Dial-Up, Net)
  • OLE objects/servers Info
  • Processes (Tasks) & Threads Info
  • Modules (DLL, DRV) Info
  • Services & Device Drivers (SYS) Info
  • SCSI Information
  • ATA/ATAPI Data
  • Data Sources Information
  • CMOS/RTC Information
  • Smart Card & SIM Card Information
  • CPU Arithmetic Criterion (MP/MT support)
  • CPU Multi-Media Criterion (including MMX, MMX Enh, 3DNow!, 3DNow! Enh, SSE(two)) (MP/MT support)
  • File System (Removable, Hard Disks, Network, RamDrives) Criterion
  • Removable Storage/Wink Benchmark
  • CD-ROM/DVD Criterion
  • Memory Bandwidth Criterion (MP/MT support)
  • Cache & Retention Bandwidth Benchmark (MP/MT back up)
  • Network/LAN Bandwidth Benchmark
  • Internet/ISP Connectedness Benchmark
  • Internet/ISP Peerage Benchmark
  • Hardware Interrupts Usage
  • DMA Channel Usage
  • I/O Ports Usage
  • Retentiveness Range Usage
  • Plug & Play Enumerator
  • Hardware registry settings
  • Environment settings
  • Registered File Types
  • Key Applications(web-browser, e-mail, news, anti-virus, firewall, etc.)
  • Installed Applications
  • Installed Programs
  • Showtime Carte Applications
  • On-deejay Programs & Libraries
  • Installed Spider web Packages(ActiveX, Coffee classes)
  • System Event Logs
  • Burn-in Wizard(test computer stability)
  • Connect Magician (connect to remote computers, PDAs, Smart Phones and other devices)
  • Combined Functioning Index Wizard (overall computer performance score)
  • Create a Report Wizard (save, print, fax or electronic mail in CIM (SMS/DMI), HTML, XML, RPT or TEXT format)
  • Operation Tune-Upward Sorcerer (tune-up computer)
  • Environment Monitor Wizard (temperatures, voltages, fans, CPU power, cooling solution thermal resistance, etc.)
  • WebUpdate Magician for automatic version updating

What'southward New:

Benchmark Support, Updates & Fixes

  • GP-GPU Processing OpenCL Benchmark: fixed kernel failures on most GP-GPUs. Bug discovered by Marker Poppin.
  • CPU Scientific Benchmark: greatly improved AVX512 GEMM (SGEMM, DGEMM) performance past using the larger 48kB L1D cache (on RKL and ICL-SP) and ameliorate prefetch. [notation AVX2/FMA3 performance is also improved to some extent]
  • CPU Inter-Thread Efficiency Benchmark: reasonably improved AVX512 inter-thread transfers by using larger transfer blocks that take advantage of the larger 48kB L1D cache (on RKL and ICL-SP). [annotation AVX2/FMA3 performance is also improved to some extent]
  • Memory Bandwidth Benchmark: modestly improved AVX512 bandwidth transfers by using the larger 48kB L1D cache( on RKL and ICL-SP) and smarter prefetching. [note AVX2/FMA3 performance is too improved to some extent]
  • Multi-Core Efficiency Benchmark: renamed to "Inter-Thread Efficiency" Benchmark as it now measures and displays inter-thread/core/module (CCX)/node (die)/pakage (socket) thread latencies.
  • Inter-Thread Efficiency Benchmark: enabled 512-bit/AVX512 inter-thread transfers for higher bandwidth utilisation.
  • Inter-Thread Efficiency Benchmark: reduce latency reported to but i of the
  • All CPU Benchmarks: expanded CPU microcode version from 2 digits to 8 digits (i.east. MC--<8V>).
  • All GP-GPU Benchmarks: latest nVidia run-time (v456+ CUDA/OpenCL) at present includes company proper noun in device name which results in duplicated company proper name (east.g. "nVidia NVIDIA 2080Ti") that is pretty ugly.

Please see our article Processor Multi-Cadre Efficiency: Inter-Thread Latency & Bandwidth Benchmarking for an in-depth wait at the benchmark and an example of its results from a mod processor.

Hardware Support, Updates & Fixes

  • All CPU Benchmarks: support Intel Pentium & Celeron (Atom "JasperLake").
  • All CPU Benchmarks: preliminary support Intel Xeon ("IceLake-SP").
  • All CPU Benchmarks: optimised Intel Core/Atom Hybrid ("Lakefield") performance.
  • All CPU Benchmarks: initial fixes for detection that fails to observe TDP/other power values on AMD Mobile Ryzen all - series. Please contact us if you lot accept such a processor and tin help with troubleshooting.
  • All Benchmarks: initial fix scheduler that fails to observe additional modules/CCXes on AMD Ryzen 3000-serial. Please contact u.s.a. if y'all have such a processor and can help with troubleshooting. [Note that Ryzen Serial k, 2000 & 5000 are *not* affected]
  • All Benchmarks: initial fixes for detection that fails to detect TDP/other power values on AMD Mobile Ryzen all series. Please contact u.s.a. if you take such a processor and can aid with troubleshooting.

Boosted Support, Updates & Fixes

  • Branding update: all brand images have re-done in high resolution for modern displays.
  • SiSoftware Official Benchmark Ranker: graphics update with new logo and rosette for #one (gold), #two (silvery), #three (bronze) and lower ratings.
  • All websites: Cloudflare CDN (HTTPS/3) to reduce client load times and support times of loftier load that would overwhelm the Ranker servers and cause DOS. Delight contact us if yous experience any issues.