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SiSoft Sandra Benchmarks
SiSoftware Sandra (the System ANalyser, Diagnostic and Reporting Assistant) is an information & 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. Sandra provides similar level of information to Norton SI, Quarterdeck WinProbe/Manifest, etc. The Win32 version is 32-bit and comes in both ANSI (legacy for Windows 98/Me systems) and native Unicode (Windows NT4/200X/.Net) formats. The Win64 version is 64-bit and comes in native Unicode format.
Do note that all the SANDRA benchmarks are synthetic and thus may not tally with real-life performance. The latter stands for whatever your environment is, i.e. which applications you run with what amount of data and so on. It is up to you to decide whether what Sandra measures is what you want to measure.
- Download SANDRA (special Guru3D.com edition)
Here you can find the scores of Sandra:
| Sandra - DhryStone | CPU |
| Gigabyte 8PE667 Ultra 2 @ 2.4 GHz | 6389 |
| PX845PEV-800 @ 2.4 GHz | 6451 |
| PX865PE PROII @ 2.8 GHz no HT | 7432 |
| Athlon XP 3000+ | 8120 |
| Athlon XP 3200+ | 8254 |
| 8IPE1000 Pro 2 -W + MIB + HT | 8500 |
| Pentium 4 - 3.06 GHz | 8802 |
| PX865PE PROII 3.4GHz DC | 10303 |
| 925XECV2 3.46 GHz EE DC | 10454 |
| PX915P/G Pro 3.6 GHz | 10470 |
Above, you can see the CPU performance. In Sandra the 3.6 GHz processor in combo with it's 915 mainboard very much on top, even over the 3.46 GHz Extreme Edition processor. This doesn't say much though. Memory performance is slaughtered with the new 1066 MHz bus, have a look:
| Sandra Memory Performance | MB/s |
| Albatron PX845PE Pro II - DDR333 SC | 2562 |
| Gigabyte 8PE667 Ultra 2 - DDR333 SC | 2524 |
| PX845PEV-800 - DDR333 SC | 2516 |
| PX865PX PROII @ DDR400 DC | 4306 |
| 8IPE1000 Pro 2 -W + MIB/PAT DC + HT | 4500 |
| PX865PX PROII @ DDR400 DC+PAT | 4623 |
| PX915P/G Pro 3.6 GHz DC | 4573 |
| 925XECV2 3.46 GHz EE DC | 5550 |
Memory is based on non tweaked SPD timings. As you can see performance is rather good. On the previous 865 based mainboards we had to use little trick to enable a little extra memory performance as that performance is comparable to 875 chipsets. The graphics clearly show what a difference dual channel memory can do in terms of memory bandwidth.
SC means single channel while DC of course means Dual Channel. Dual Channel memory @ 533+ MHz kicks ass and will boost your overall performance much; if you are on a Pentium platform.
