AVX-512 Benchmarks and AMD Raven Ridge Support

FinalWire Ltd. today announced the immediate availability of AIDA64 Extreme 5.97 software, a streamlined diagnostic and benchmarking tool for home users; the immediate availability of AIDA64 Engineer 5.97 software, a professional diagnostic and benchmarking solution for corporate IT technicians and engineers; the immediate availability of AIDA64 Business 5.97 software, an essential network management solution for small and medium scale enterprises; and the immediate availability of AIDA64 Network Audit 5.97 software, a dedicated network audit toolset to collect and manage corporate network inventories.

The latest AIDA64 update implements 64-bit AVX-512 accelerated benchmarks, adds monitoring of sensor values on Asus ROG RGB LED motherboards and video cards, and supports the latest AMD and Intel CPU platforms as well as the new graphics and GPGPU computing technologies by both AMD and nVIDIA.

New features & improvements

• AVX-512 optimized benchmarks for Intel “Skylake-X” and “Cannon Lake” CPUs
• Microsoft Windows 10 Spring Creators Update support
• AVX2 and FMA accelerated 64-bit benchmarks for AMD Ryzen “Pinnacle Ridge” and “Raven Ridge” processors
• Asus ROG RGB LED motherboard and video card support
• Optimized 64-bit benchmarks for Intel Atom C3000 “Denverton” SoC
• Improvements for Intel “Cannon Lake PCH” chipset based motherboards
• Corsair K68 RGB LED keyboard and Dark Core RGB LED mouse support
• 64-bit multi-threaded benchmarks for Intel Celeron/Pentium “Gemini Lake” SoC
• Advanced support for 3ware, AMD, HighPoint, Intel, JMicron, LSI RAID controllers
• GPU details for AMD Radeon Pro SSG, Radeon Pro WX 3100
• GPU details for nVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5GB, Quadro V100, Titan V

AIDA64 March Update

AVX-512 accelerated benchmarks

64-bit multi-threaded AVX-512 optimized benchmarks for Intel Core “Skylake-X” high-end desktop processors, Intel Xeon Scalable “Skylake-SP” server CPUs, Intel Xeon W “Skylake-W” workstation processors, Intel Xeon Phi “Knights Landing” HPC CPUs, and for the upcoming Intel “Cannon Lake” processors. AIDA64 benchmarks and System Stability Test now utilize AVX-512, AVX2, AVX, Fused Multiply-Add (FMA) instructions, and AES-NI hardware acceleration of capable Intel processors. Improved support for Intel Xeon D “Skylake-D” SoC. SSE4, AES-NI and SHA optimized benchmarks for Intel Celeron/Pentium “Gemini Lake” low-power desktop and mobile SoC, and for Intel Atom C3000 “Denverton” integrated server SoC.

Microsoft Windows 10 Spring Creators Update support

Operating system details, installed programs list, and security software information for the upcoming Microsoft Windows 10 Spring Creators Update 1803. Optimized and fixed ACPI query, tree enumeration and temperature measurement modules.

Optimized 64-bit benchmarks for AMD Ryzen “Pinnacle Ridge” and “Raven Ridge” processors

AIDA64 CPUID Panel, Cache & Memory Benchmark panel, GPGPU Benchmark panel, System Stability Test, and all cache, memory and processor benchmarks are fully optimized for AMD Ryzen “Pinnacle Ridge” high-performance desktop processors and AMD Ryzen “Raven Ridge” desktop and mobile APUs, utilizing AVX2, FMA3, AES-NI and SHA instructions. Detailed chipset information for AMD Ryzen integrated memory controllers. Improved support for AMD Epyc 3000 “Snowy Owl” SoC.

Asus ROG RGB LED motherboard and video card support

The existing AIDA64 RGB LED module has been extended to cover Asus ROG RGB LED motherboards and video adapters, using the Asus Aura API. CPU and memory utilization, network traffic, temperatures, voltages, fan speeds, and power draw measurements can now all be monitored on RGB devices, using various visual representations. RGB LED device support for Corsair K68, Corsair Dark Core, Corsair Dark Core SE.

Improvements for Intel “Cannon Lake PCH” chipset based motherboards

Temperature, voltage and fan speed monitoring for Intel “Cannon Lake PCH” based 4th Generation LGA1151 motherboards and 2nd Generation Intel “Coffee Lake” processors. Detailed chipset information for Intel “Cannon Lake PCH” south bridge, and for the integrated memory controller of Intel “Coffee Lake”, “Whiskey Lake” and “Cannon Lake” processors. Detailed SPD information for high performance DDR4 memory modules with XMP 2.0 memory profiles. Support for the latest 5Gbps Ethernet LAN controllers.

Support for the latest hardware technologies

Multi-threaded OpenCL GPGPU benchmarks, graphics processor, OpenGL and GPGPU details, temperature and cooling fan monitoring for the latest GPUs: AMD Radeon E9260, Radeon Pro SSG, Radeon Pro WX 2100, Radeon Pro WX 3100; nVIDIAGeForce GTX 1060 5GB, Quadro P500, Quadro P620, Quadro V100, Titan V. Vulkan graphics accelerator diagnostics for AMD, Intel and nVIDIA graphics accelerators. Advanced support for 3ware, AMD, HighPoint, Intel, JMicron, LSI RAID controllers. Improved support for AData SP580, Samsung PM871a, Samsung PM871b SSDs.