AIDA64 v5.99 Press Release

Intel Cascade Lake Benchmarks and Fake nVIDIA Video Cards Detection

BUDAPEST, Hungary - November 20, 2018 - FinalWire Ltd. today announced the immediate availability of AIDA64 Extreme 5.99 software, a streamlined diagnostic and benchmarking tool for home users; the immediate availability of AIDA64 Engineer 5.99 software, a professional diagnostic and benchmarking solution for corporate IT technicians and engineers; the immediate availability of AIDA64 Business 5.99 software, an essential network management solution for small and medium scale enterprises; and the immediate availability of AIDA64 Network Audit 5.99 software, a dedicated network audit toolset to collect and manage corporate network inventories.

The new AIDA64 release implements optimized benchmarks for the upcoming Intel “Cascade Lake” processors, adds fake nVIDIA video cards detection, monitoring of sensor values on Matrix Orbital GTT displays, 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 accelerated benchmarks for Intel Cascade Lake processors
Fake nVIDIA video cards detection
Cooler Master MasterKeys MK750 and SteelSeries Apex M750 RGB LED keyboard support
Matrix Orbital GTT and RoboPeak RPUSBDisp LCD support
Cooler Master MasterMouse MM530 and SteelSeries Rival 600 RGB LED mouse support
Aqua Computer D5 Next and Quadro sensor support
Improvements for Intel Z390 chipset based motherboards
Corsair ST100 RGB LED headset stand support
SanDisk X600 SSD support
Advanced support for LSI RAID controllers
32 processor groups support
WDDM 2.5 support
SteelSeries QcK Prism RGB LED mousepad support
GPU details for AMD Radeon RX 580 2048SP and Radeon RX 590
GPU details for nVIDIA GeForce RTX and Quadro RTX Series

What’s new since AIDA64 v5.00

Microsoft Windows 10 October 2018 Update support
AVX and FMA accelerated FP32 and FP64 ray tracing benchmarks
Vulkan graphics accelerator diagnostics
RemoteSensor smartphone and tablet LCD integration
Logitech Arx Control smartphone and tablet LCD integration
Proper DPI scaling to better support high-resolution LCD and OLED displays
AVX-512 optimized benchmarks for Intel Skylake-X and Cannon Lake CPUs
AVX and FMA accelerated 64-bit benchmarks for AMD A-Series Bristol Ridge and Carrizo APUs
AVX2 and FMA accelerated 64-bit benchmarks for AMD Ryzen Pinnacle Ridge, Raven Ridge, Summit Ridge and Threadripper processors
AVX2 and FMA accelerated 64-bit benchmarks for Intel Broadwell, Kaby Lake, Kaby Lake-X, Skylake and Skylake-X CPUs
AVX and SSE accelerated 64-bit benchmarks for AMD Nolan APU
Optimized 64-bit benchmarks for Intel Apollo Lake, Braswell, Cherry Trail, Denverton, Gemini Lake processors
VAES optimized AES benchmark
Preliminary support for Intel Knights Mill HPC CPU
Improved support for Intel Cannon Lake CPU
Advanced SMART disk health monitoring
Hot Keys to switch LCD pages, start or stop logging, show or hide SensorPanel
Asus, Corsair, Logitech, Razer RGB LED keyboard, mouse and mousepad support
Asus ROG RGB LED motherboard and video card support
AlphaCool Heatmaster II, Aquaduct, Aquaero, AquaStream XT, AquaStream Ultimate, Corsair Commander Pro, Corsair H80i Pro, Corsair H100i Pro, Corsair H115i Pro, Corsair H150i Pro, EVGA iCX, Farbwerk, MPS, NZXT GRID+ V2, NZXT Kraken X52, PowerAdjust 2, PowerAdjust 3, Thermaltake Riing Plus sensor devices support
Corsair AXi, Corsair HXi, Corsair RMi, Enermax Digifanless, Thermaltake DPS-G power supply unit sensor support
Support for EastRising ER-OLEDM032 (SSD1322), EVGA Z10, Gravitech, LCD Smartie Hardware, Leo Bodnar, Matrix Orbital EVE, Matrix Orbital OK, Modding-FAQ, Noteu, Odospace, Pertelian (RS232), Saitek Pro Flight Instrument Panel, Saitek X52 Pro, UCSD LCD devices
Portrait mode support for AlphaCool and Samsung SPF LCDs
SensorPanel and LCD: right-to-left bars, static label control strings
0.01 Celsius temperature measurement resolution for select sensor items
System certificates information
Support for LGA-1151, LGA-2066, Socket AM4, Socket TR4 motherboards
Improvements for Intel Cannon Lake PCH chipset based motherboards
Support for USB 3.1 peripherals
Extended ACPI table decoding
Advanced support for 3ware, Adaptec, AMD, Areca, HighPoint, Intel, JMicron, LSI, Marvell RAID controllers
RAID member enumeration for Intel NVMe RAID arrays
ACPI 6.1, CUDA 8.0, NVMe 1.3, OpenCL 2.1, OpenGL 4.6, OpenGL ES 3.2, SMBIOS 3.1.1, VirtualBox v5.0, Vulkan 1.1, WDDM 2.4 support
Corsair Neutron XT, Crucial BX100, Crucial BX200, Crucial M600, Crucial MX200, Crucial MX300, Intel Pro 5400s, Kingston HyperX Predator, Kingston HyperX Savage, Kingston SSDNow UV300, Kingston SSDNow UV400, Lite-On MU II, OCZ Trion 100, OCZ Vector 180, Plextor M6V, Samsung CM871, Samsung PM851, Samsung PM871, SanDisk Plus, SanDisk Ultra II, SanDisk X400, SanDisk Z400s, SK Hynix SC300, WD Blue SSD support
GPU details for AMD Radeon Rx 300, RX 400, RX 500, R9 Fury Series
GPU details for nVIDIA GeForce GTX 950, GeForce GTX 960, GeForce GTX 980 Ti, GeForce GTX 1000 Series, GeForce GTX Titan X, Quadro M3000M, Quadro M5000M, Quadro GP100, Tesla M60, Tesla P6, Tesla P100, Titan Xp

The AIDA64 product family for Windows PCs consists of three business editions and a home edition. The company's flagship IT asset management offering with hardware diagnostic features is AIDA64 Business, while a dedicated network inventory solution called AIDA64 Network Audit is also available, for a lower license fee. Designed for corporate engineers and IT technicians, AIDA64 Engineer includes expert tools not available in AIDA64 Extreme, the home edition of the software. Today all four AIDA64 editions are updated to v5.99.

About FinalWire

AIDA64 is developed by FinalWire Ltd., headquartered in Budapest, Hungary. The company’s founding members are veteran software developers who have worked together on programming system utilities for more than two decades. Currently, they have ten products in their portfolio, all based on the award-winning AIDA technology: AIDA64 Extreme, AIDA64 Engineer, AIDA64 Network Audit, AIDA64 Business and AIDA64 for Android,, iOS, Sailfish OS, Tizen, Ubuntu Touch and Windows Phone.