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SiSoftware Sandra 2016 – the latest version of its award-winning utility which includes remote analysis, benchmarking and diagnostic features for PCs, servers, PDAs, Smart Phones, small office/home office (SOHO) networks and enterprise networks. SiSoftware Sandra (the System ANalyser, Diagnostic and Reporting Assistant) is an information and diagnostic utility. It should provide most of the information (including undocumented) you need to know about your hardware, software and other devices whether hardware or software. 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 ahigh and low-level.



Key features of SiSoftware Sandra 2016:
• 6 native architectures support (x86, x64 – Windows; ARM, ARM64, MIPS, MIPS64, x86, x64 – Android)
• Huge official hardware support through technology partners (AMD/ATI, nVidia, Intel).
• 4 native (GP)GPU/APU platforms support (OpenCL, CUDA, DirectX Compute Shader, OpenGL Compute*).
• 4 native Graphics platforms support (DirectX 12, DirectX 11.x, DirectX 10.x, OpenGL 3.0+).
• 9 language versions (English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Japanese, Chinese (Traditional, Simplified), Russian) in a single installer.
• Enhanced Sandra Lite (Eval) version (free for personal/educational use, evaluation for other uses)

Personal
- Easy "de facto" standard benchmarks for measuring performance.
- Improve understanding of what is inside your computer.
- Compare your system with refernce systems and results.
- Check software configuration and settings and much more.
- Designed especially for Home Users.

Business
- Easy "de facto" standard benchmarks for measuring performance.
- Analyse your network computers.
- Support for machines part of Domain.
- Support for Virtualisation.
- Batch execution of modules.

Tech Support
- Includes all the features of the Business Professional version as well as.
- USB/CD versuon does not require install, save time, saves install
- Allows commercial exploitation / usage.
- Licenecd per technician for simplification.
- Reduces total cost of ownership due to each technician being licensed.
- Ability to run directly from CD or USB without installation. (Portable Version only)

Broad Operating System Support:
• Enhanced for Windows10 / Server 2015 Desktop mode using the latest API.
• New theme for Windows 10 / 8.1 / 8 with high-DPI support (200% 192ppi) 256×256 pixels icons.
• Full support for Windows 8, 7, Vista as well as Server 2012/R2, 2008/R2.
• Updated hardware support for both current and future hardware

What`s new:
This release introduces initial AVX512 benchmarks with all SIMD benchmarks due to be ported once compiler support becomes available:
CPU Multi-Media (Fractal Generation): single, double floating-point; integer, long benchmarks ported to AVX512. [see article Future performance with AVX512]
CPU Crypto (SHA Hashing): SHA2-256 and SHA2-512 multi-buffer ported to AVX512
Hardware support for future arch (AMD and Intel)
Net Multi-Media native vector support is vector width independent and thus will support AVX512 with a future CLR release automatically
GPU Image Processing - new, more complex filters:
Oil Painting: Quantise (9×9) Filter: CUDA, OpenCL
Diffusion: Randomise (256) Filter: CUDA, OpenCL
CPU Image Processing - new, more complex filters:
Oil Painting: Quantise (9×9) Filter: AVX2/FMA, AVX, SSE2
Diffusion: Randomise (256) Filter: AVX2/FMA, AVX, SSE2
More benchmarks will be ported to AVX512 subject to compiler support; currently Microsoft’s VC++ does not support AVX512 intrinsics and in the interest of fairness we do not use specialized compilers


Windows 10 RTM, 8.1, 8, 7;
Windows Server 2016, 2012/R2 and 2008/R2
Visual C++ 2015 (x86/x64)