DownloadFinalWire 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.
Can anyone do a quick roundup of the new tests on their Haswell system & if possible compare it with any of their older builds ?
Yes & apparently ~btw this very issue is discussed here: http://www.realworldtech.com/forum/?threadid=133925&curpostid=133941
from the same forum ~> A major update is rolled out today, http://www.techpowerup.com/184875/finalwire-aida64-v3-00-released.html
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> quite a bad timing now that all reviews are published
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Yes & apparently ~from the same forum ~
AIDA64 updated today
Perhaps some of the reviewers can update their charts accordingly :\
Do you have any other system to do the tests on, other than IVB & using the latest AIDA64, it'll perhaps give us a perspective as to what else has changed.
I'll bench a few more later today.Do you have any other system to do the tests on, other than IVB & using the latest AIDA64, it'll perhaps give us a perspective as to what else has changed.
Quick run on the FX8350 box.
Looks like, 3.00 uses different methods, in all of my tests, I have got much worse latencies versus 2.85.was latency so high (particularly the l3) on older Aida versions!?
Possibly one of the slowest system going around D:
Looks like, 3.00 uses different methods, in all of my tests, I have got much worse latencies versus 2.85.
Coming up: Merom, Pentium 4 and Thuban
WTH the L2 Cache latency is ~7x worse now, quite similar to grimpr's 8350 & its L3 Cache latency, definitely poor(er) results for AMDthey definately changed a lot, and since you didn't mentioned Brisbane:
WTH the L2 Cache latency is ~7x worse now, quite similar to grimpr's 8350 & its L3 Cache latency, definitely poor(er) results for AMD
Interesting, also worth noting is that your FX's L2 Cache read/write/copy numbers are off the charts even though the latency has nearly doubledIt says it clearly, thats where the latencies come from. Whats interesting is that they use all threads avalaible to measure real cache bandwidth, this is where the Core i7s & the FX will shine, the increase is big.
Yes I understand that but apparently such a drastic change could skew alot of calculations & other charts !Read again the description of the new test. Hardware prefetchers hide latency and Intel has the best ones.
Interesting, also worth noting is that your FX's L2 Cache read/write/copy numbers are off the charts even though the latency has nearly doubled Yes I understand that but apparently such a drastic change could skew alot of calculations & other charts !
Yup seeing the IVB numbers above I can see why this is a welcome change however, as you said, there needs to be some more clarity especially wrt the accuracy of these numbers & the error margin :hmm:All i know is that it uses all available threads at 100%, so the numbers are the total throughput of the chip with its load/store units and not per module or core as were the old version, still many unknowns though we need more details and benchmarks to come to a conclusion, big upgrade that changes everything.