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SiSoftware has announced the availability of SiSoftware Sandra 2009, the latest version of its award-winning utility which includes remote analysis, benchmarking and diagnostic features for PCs, servers, PDAs1, Smart Phones1, small office/home office (SOHO) networks and enterprise networks.

SiSoftware Sandra (the System ANalyser, Diagnostic and Reporting Assistant) is a 32 and 64-bit Windows system analyser that includes benchmarking, testing and listing modules. It works along the lines of other Windows utilities, however it tries to go beyond them and show you more of what's really going on. Giving the user the ability to draw comparisons at both a high and low-level. You can get information about the CPU, chipset, video adapter, ports, printers, sound card, memory, network, Windows internals, AGP, ODBC Connections, USB2, 1394/Firewire, etc.

All major technologies are supported and taken advantage of:

* SMP - Multi-Processor
* MC - Multi-Core
* SMT/HT - Hyper-Threading
* MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3 - Multi-Media instructions
* Wireless MMX - Mobile multi-media instructions
* NUMA - Non-Uniform Memory Access
* AMD64/EM64T/x64 - 64-bit extensions to x86
* IA64 - Intel* Itanium 64-bit

New modules

* Graphics (GPGPU) Processing: Benchmark the graphics performance of the graphics processors (GPGPUs). Such operations are used by specialised software, e.g. scientific software, image manipulation, video decoders/encoders, games that make GPU performance pretty important.

* Graphics (GPGPU) Bandwidth: Benchmark the bandwidth of the memory of the graphics processors (GPGPUs) and the bandwidth of the bus that connects them to your computer. The speed at which the data can be sent to the GPGPUs, internally processed and the results sent back is as important as the processing power of the GPGPUs.

* Video (GFX) Rendering: Benchmark the graphics performance of the video adapters (GFXs). Shows how your graphics processors handle rendering in comparison to other typical graphics processors. Such operations are used by all graphics software, image manipulation, video decoders/encoders, games and modern operating systems.

* Video (GFX) Memory: Benchmark the bandwidth of the memory of the video adapters (GFXs) and the bandwidth of the bus that connects them to your computer.

* Cryptographic Performance: Benchmark the cryptographic performance of modern processors that support hardware cryptographic engines. The most common algorithms, AES (AES128, AES256) for encryption/decryption and SHA (SHA1, SHA256) for hashing are supported.

Key features

* 4 native architectures support (x86, x64/AMD64/EM64T, IA64/Itanium2, ARM).
* 2 native GPGPU platforms support (AMD CTM/STREAM1, nVidia CUDA1, future Intel).
* 3 native Graphics platforms support (DirectX 9, DirectX 10/10.1).
* 23 established benchmarking modules, 4 new to this version.
* Huge official hardware support through technology partners (Intel, AMD/ATI, SiS, VIA).
* 7 charting options: combined, components, performance vs. speed/power/cost, capacity vs. power/cost charts.
* 6 language versions (English, German, French, Italian, Russian, Chinese) in a single installer.
* Enhanced Sandra Lite version (free for personal/educational use)

Notes:

1 .NET (Compact) Framework 2.0 and later supported.
2 Sun Java SE 6 (1.6.x) and later supported.
3 By special arrangement.
4 By special arrangement; device SDK required.
5 By special arrangement; Applet version only.
6 Unreleased, next-generation pre-release platforms at publication time.

OS: Windows 2003/XP/Vista (32-bit & 64-bit)

Size: 18.7 MB