Cinebench R10 has since been replaced by V11.5, but many people have a better indication of relative performance by the results from R10 – after all it has been around for years. We will however include R11.5 results on the following page. For those who don’t know Cinebench is not just a mere synthetic benchmarking application, it is based on the rendering engine from Cinema 4D.
The CPU test renders a 3D scene photo-realistically while applying performance intensive functions such as area light sources, procedural shaders, Ambient Occlusion and multi level reflections. Especially when used on faster, multi core CPU systems, MAXON CINEBENCH R10 delivers much more accurate results.
If ever you wanted a machine for rendering, this would be the one. Out of interest I compared this Cryo machine with a Nehalem EP system result I still had stored on a machine from a year ago. With two W5580 processors and an Intel S5520SC Motherboard I benched a 30,589 score which is around 5k less than the single, overclocked 980X in the Cryo system today. That is simply staggering ..