Cinebench R10 64-bit
Cinebench R10 is produced by Maxon. It is based on their Cinema 4D animation application and is very CPU intensive. It allows benchmarks to be conducted using one, or all available CPU cores. Additional cores can provide very large improvements in Cinebench scores.
Three tests are conducted using Cinebench. The first is the rendering test utilizing only a single core. The second uses all available cores. Once both tests are conducted, Cinebench reports how much faster the multi-threaded test was. This scaling information is useful to determine how well multiple cores scale during rendering workloads.
The third test is the Cinebench OpenGL 3D rendering benchmark. We’ve thrown it in as well for good measure.
The Phenom II is a very strong rendering chip. We see the X3 720 trail behind the Q6600 slightly, but it still fairs pretty well for a processor with only three cores. There is definitely no contest here between the X3 720 and the E8400. Rendering applications like Cinebench are very efficient multi-threaders and more cores means better numbers. Single core rendering paints a different picture, however, as the E8400 leverages its clockspeed advantage to take the pole position.
The X4 810 also makes a good showing by edging out the stock Core 2 Quad Q6600 in both single and multi-core rendering.
Due to architectural changes made over the last generation of Phenoms, the Phenom II has traded a little bit of scaling efficiency in favor of improved total performance. That said, the E8400 remains a very scalable chip that manages to best our AM3 Phenom II units
The Intel E8400 is a real monster in this benchmark. Its raw potential for number-crunching and large reserve of fast L2 cache appears to provide a huge benefit
Interestingly, the X3 720 outperforms the X4 940 with a 200MHz slower clock speed and a disabled core. As you’ll see shortly, this trend was seen in several benchmarks. It appears that the faster memory controller and/or HyperTransport provides a measurable benefit in some applications.
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