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.
When it comes to rendering, the Phenom II X4 955 leads the pack for traditional quads. It bests the Q9550 consistently. Cinebench favors cores and clock speed, so with four 3.2Ghz cores rendering away, it’s easy to see why the Phenom II pulls ahead.
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. The 955 again pulls ahead of the Core2 Quad. We wonder if the 12MB L2 Cache of the Q9550 hinders its score somewhat.
The Intel E8400 is still 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 that can’t be surpassed by the Q9550’s additional cache and cores.
Disappointingly, the Phenom II X4 955 falls short in this benchmark. It does surpass the Phenom II 940, but just barely. The tri-core Phenom X3 720 matches its performance, despite a disabled core and 400mhz speed deficit.