New cache and memory benchmarks, support for next-gen Intel CPUs

Jun 3, 2013 06:53 GMT  ·  By

FinalWire announced today that AIDA64 (Extreme and Business Edition) has been updated to version 3.00. Being a major version number, the fresh revision brings to the table significant changes.

The developer makes available fully rewritten cache and memory bandwidth benchmarks, tweaked for AVX2, AVX and SSE capable AMD, Intel and VIA CPUs. The tests use as many as 32 threads to measure the bandwidth for read, write and copy operations.

For measuring memory latency, the suite uses a block-random method, which should eliminate the effect of hardware prefetchers and minimize TLB misses.

Improvements extend to optimization of 64-bit assessment routines for AMD “Kabini” and “Temash” APUs.

The new release has initial support for L4 cache bandwidth and latency benchmarks for the upcoming Intel “Crystal Well” processor.

Also worth mentioning is that AIDA64 3.00 can provide GPU details for AMD Radeon HD 7990 “Malta” and nVIDIA GeForce 700 Series.

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