SiSoftware has just recently announced the availability of it’s first OpenCL GPGPU Benchmarks as part of Sandra 2010, and now AMD has announced that they’ll be supporting it as a global OpenCL Benchmark package. Such common benchmark suites are popular in the HPC arena as a way to benchmark common performance characteristics in suites like Linpack. Some of the features in Sandra2010 include:
- 4 architectures natively supported (x86, x64/AMD64/EM64T, IA64/Itanium2, ARM)
- 6 languages supported (English, French3, German3, Italian3, Japanese3, Russian3)
- AMD OpenCL 1.01
- nVidia OpenCL 1.0
- GPU + CPU parallel execution supported, up to 8 devices in total.
- Different models of GPUs supported, including integrated GPU + dedicated GPUs.
- Multi-GPUs supported, up to 8 in parallel.
The package is available in several versions with varying feature sets, ranging from a free “Lite” Version to a full “Enterprise” edition.
SiSoftware Zone Sandra2010 Announcement, via AMD Press Release
