Sandra 2010 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 an information amp 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 39 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 PCI PCI X PCIe PCI Express database USB USB2 1394 Firewire etc

Native ports for all major operating systems are available
Windows 2000 XP 2003 Vista Longhorn x86
Windows x64 Edition XP 2003 Vista Longhorn AMD64 EM64T
Windows 64 bit Edition 2003 Longhorn IA64
Windows Mobile 2003 2003SE ARM CE 4 20
Windows Mobile 5 ARM CE 5 01
Windows Mobile 6 ARM CE 5 02

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

What are the benefits of Sandra 39 s Live Benchmark Ranking
bull Live access to test results of the latest products on the market as reviewed by established review websites and magazines Currently over 600 publications use SiSoftware products in their reviews please see the Reviews amp Benchmark Results page for the current list of reviews
bull Live access to thousands of results submitted by other Sandra users in addition to the hundreds of reference test results provided by SiSoftware
bull Compare the performance of your devices or the devices you intend to purchase in different platforms check that they meet performance expectations
bull Find out which devices overclock the best see how far other users have overclocked the devices you own get the best performance for your money
bull Automatic backup and restoring of your test results Sandra will download them automatically to a new installation a new computer or any computer on your network
bull Form teams with your friends or colleagues and get your team to rank highest share your test results and benefit from those of many other users Become a part of our worldwide community
bull Open implementation SiSoftware is working with other ranking engines and will add further support as soon as possible

Exciting new features
bull Hundreds of new reference test results thanks to our community of Beta testers Our thanks for all their hard work
bull Support for updated GPGPU Benchmarks AMD Stream 1 4 and nVidia CUDA 2 2
bull Dynamic GPGPU work load scheduler when using different GPGPU cards in the same system or a dedicated GPGPU card in a system with integrated graphics IGP when both support GPGPU features
bull Improved measurement accuracy in Physical Disks File Systems Flash SSD benchmarks 0 01ms instead of 1ms now you can measure the fastest new SSDs and other flash devices more accurately
bull Improved measurement accuracy in Memory Latency Multi Core Efficiency benchmarks 0 1ns instead of 1ns now you can measure the fastest new processors and memory sub systems more accurately
bull VIA Nano mobile 64 bit processor in Windows Vista SP2 Server 2008 SP2 and future Windows 7 Server 2008 R2
bull Advanced test results management including customisation import export to common file formats download of Ranked test results and integration with Price engines to determine the best value products on the market

Key features
bull 4 native architectures support x86 x64 AMD64 EM64T IA64 Itanium2 ARM
bull 2 native GPGPU platforms support AMD CTM STREAM1 nVidia CUDA1 future Intel
bull 3 native Graphics platforms support DirectX 9 DirectX 10 10 1
bull 23 established benchmarking modules 4 new to version 2009
bull Huge official hardware support through technology partners Intel AMD ATI SiS VIA Centaur
bull 7 charting options combined components performance vs speed power cost capacity vs power cost charts
bull 6 language versions English German French Italian Russian Japanese thanks to our Translators
bull Enhanced Sandra Lite version free for personal educational use

Here are the version types in line with industry standards
bull Sandra Lite free for personal educational use no nag screens time limit etc
bull Sandra Advanced for OEMs
bull Sandra Professional commercial
bull Sandra Engineer commercially exploitabile
bull Sandra Enterprise commercial