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Please enable the Ranker to automatically download reference/aggregate results. No reference results are included with the software.
Click the Options button on the toolbar, then Customize Rank Engine... |
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By default charts (bars, graphs, etc.) animate as there is more information to be displayed than space on small screens; by cycling we can display more information.
You can turn it off by clickin... |
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In order to run the graphics (GPGPU) modules and benchmarks, your system must meet the hardware and software requirements:
Sandra:
Sandra Platinum/2017, Titanium/2018 and later: support OpenCL 2.x, Di... |
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In order to run the video (graphics) modules and benchmarks, your system must meet the hardware and software requirements:
For ALL operating systems - you need the latest DirectX. Download DirectX End... |
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While it should be easier to get DirectX ComputeShader working than OpenCL in Windows, as it is part of DirectX, it may actually be more complicated:
Windows 10, 8.1, 8 and 7 are set. Windows Vista re... |
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Under Windows, huge pages (1GB) are not supported - yet!
To use large pages (2-4MB) pages you specifically need to give your user the "lock pages in memory" privilege using Local Security Policy.
Note... |
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The Physical Disk benchmark accesses the disk directly thus is partition/volume/file system independent.
As the writing (like the reading) is done at various positions on the disk (some random) i... |
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ATI/AMD has put together a KB article on the steps required to get this working:
KB75 - Tips and suggestions for running SiSoftware Sandra 201X OpenCL GPGPU benchmarks with AMD/ATI Stream SDK v2.0
You... |
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This benchmark requires Windows 7 (and later) as it contains Media Foundation transcode (MFT) support. Unfortunately older versions of Windows do not contain API that allows 3-rd party software to use... |
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Operating System support is required to save/restore extended SIMD state - and thus use these SIMD instruction sets AVX, AVX2/FMA, AVX512*, etc.
You need Windows 7 SP1/Server 2008 R2 SP1 or later to p... |
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There are many ways to do this:
Enable Ranking and create an account. Submit your results by benchmarking your computer and then ask your friends to search for your results through "Database To... |
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* All Sandra versions only use the Visual Studio standard compilers and the public MASM, YASM and NASM assemblers (as published online). We use blended optimisation optimised for speed (O2). We do not... |
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Please see this detailed article on how to configure Sandra on remote computer and how to connect to it:
http://www.sisoftware.co.uk/?d=qa&f=remote |
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Some versions of Hyper-V may not enable OSXSAVE to save/restore the new CPU state supporting 256-bit (or wider) registers. Thus, AVX, AVX2/FMA or AVX512 (and later) instruction sets cannot be used. On... |
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Note that an operating system (OS) needs to support the new extended CPU state (OS-XSAVE) to allow software to use new instruction sets like AVX, AVX2/FMA, AVX512*, etc.Windows 7, 8.x, 10.x or later, ... |
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No, no proprietary libraries (e.g. Intel MKL, FFTW, etc.) are used nor included/required. Why? This way we have full control over the implementation, optimisations and all code paths (i.e. SSE2/AVX/FM... |
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No, no proprietary libraries (e.g. nV cuBLAS, cuFFT; AMD APPML, clMath etc.) are used nor included/required. Why? This way we have full control over the implementation, optimisations and all code path... |
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