Sandra 2011 SP1 (17.36) Released - http://www.sisoftware.net/
We are releasing the first service pack for Sandra, version 2011.SP1 (17.36).
It's the month of fixes, updates and even recalls and we did not want to be left out!
- Fix: Incorrect CPU frequency displayed on Sandy Bridge in Turbo Mode; benchmark scores are not affected. The displayed speed was updated twice.
- Fix: Incorrect CPU frequency displayed on Phenom II/Fusion in Turbo Mode*; IMC and Memory speed were also affected: benchmark scores are not affected. The displayed speed was not updated at all.*
- Improvement: Multi-threaded Memory Bandwidth on Fusion*; score has doubled (~3.3GB/s) though short of what AMD "suggests". No better solution has been found yet.
* Special thanks to Michael Schuette for his help and testing the above fixes and improvements without which they would not been possible. Thanks again!
- Update: Large memory pages support re-added to the Memory Bandwidth, Cache & Memory Bandwidth and Multi-Core Efficiency benchmarks but disabled by default. Please use Options to disable "Use Native Memory Pages" to use large memory pages.
Why disabled by default? Some (older) processors perform worse when using large memory pages for a reason engineers cannot explain. Thus it was best to leave it this way for now.
- Update: GUI reference list colour-matched to the graphs which finally allows you to identify which result corresponds to which value in the graph.
- External Fix: GPGPU Crypto benchmarks work with the latest 266.xx nVidia drivers even in older Sandra versions.
- Fix: Minor various fixes for Windows 7 SP1 RTM.