ASRock Z68 Extreme7 Gen3 Review

Cinebench R11.5 is the newest revision of the popular benchmark from Maxon. The test scenario uses all of your system’s processing power to render a photorealistic 3D scene (from the viral “No Keyframes” animation by AixSponza). This scene makes use of various different algorithms to stress all available processor cores.

In fact, CINEBENCH can measure systems with up to 64 processor threads. The test scene contains approximately 2,000 objects containing more than 300,000 total polygons and uses sharp and blurred reflections, area lights and shadows, procedural shaders, antialiasing, and much more. The result is given in points (pts). The higher the number, the faster your processor.

At 4.6ghz the Core i7 2600k is performing at a similar level to a reference clocked Core i7 970/980x processor which costs substantially more. Both of these systems are more than capable of being used as a rendering station 24/7 although the 2600k would make a better investment.

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