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Sandra - Synthetic Tests
SiSoftware's 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.

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Below you can find the scores of Sandra starting with CPU performance:

Dhrystone is a suite of arithmetic and string manipulating programs. Since the whole program should be really small, it fits into the processor cache. It can be used to measure two aspects, both the processor's speed as well as the optimizing capabilities of the compiler. The resulting number is the number of executions of the program suite per second. Times are changing quickly, the Athlon 64 FX-60 shows a massive gain ...  yes the 2005 edition of Sandra supports dual-core technology.

WinStone Business

This is a kind of "MS Office" like benchmark and focusses on business like applications. It's not yet fully multi-threaded optimized benchmark. It is however real-world performance. This software is very susceptible for extra cache.

Winstone Content Creation

Content creation is a benchmark focused on diverse multimedia functions of the PC. The software has not been optimized for dual-core technology and that shows, but .. that's still extremely fast performance.