Maxon Cinebench 10 x64

Website: Cinebench

Maxon Cinebench is based on Maxon's popular animation software, Cinema 4D, which is used extensively by studios and production houses worldwide for 3D content creation. We've used the built-in CPU benchmark, which uses a 3D scene file to render a photo-realistic image of a concept bike. The scene makes use of various CPU-intensive features such as reflection, ambient occlusion, area lights and procedural shaders.


With the multi-core rendering approach of Cinebench, the triple-core obviously has more resources to hand to exceed the performance of Intel's dual-core chips, but it and even the AMD AM3 quads are still behind Intel's quads. Only the Phenom II X4 940 and 920 with DDR2 make a positive dent on the Intel leadership here. AM3 DDR3 performance is inconsistent in some cases, but at most it's only a few hundred points faster and at worst it's slower than DDR2.


Clock speeds and core efficiencies make the biggest differences here and with its lower core efficiency AMD suffers to Intel in general, and the DDR3 results are even less positive compared to the lower latency DDR2.