SANDRA isn’t always a benchmark that is included in hardware reviews but I believe it shouldn’t be ignored. SANDRA provides a vigorous package that tests your system in a rather large array of benchmarks. There are many aspects of benchmark that can be executed. We will be considering – CPU, memory and GPGPU tests.
One shame about this platform is the use of just a single channel memory controller, the memory bandwidth suffers greatly here, and it is well documented at how memory starved the GPU is. This is also the reason the majority of our APU tests are done so in a memory starved environment as to highlight any improvement memory bandwidth provided by any architecture change.
