Cinebench 9.5 is based on the 3D software Cinema 4D and it is very useful to measure the performance gain given by having more than one CPU installed on the system when rendering heavy 3D images. Rendering is one area that having more than one CPU helps a lot, because usually rendering software recognizes several CPUs – Cinebench, for instance, can use up to 16 CPUs.

This software provides five results, Rendering 1 CPU, which measures the rendering performance using just one CPU, Rendering x CPUs, which measures the rendering performance using all CPUs available on the system, Cinema 4D shading, OpenGL Software Lighting and OpenGL Hardware Lighting. Since we were interested in measuring the rendering performance, we are going to compare the “Rendering x CPUs” results from all CPUs. Keep in mind that even though the Pentium 4 CPUs we included in our review have only one core, they have HyperThreading technology, which simulates two CPUs.

Here Core 2 Extreme QX6700 was faster than all other CPUs we included in our comparison: 47.03% faster than Core 2 Extreme X6800, 61.10% faster than Core 2 Duo E6700, 82.36% faster than Athlon 64 X2 5000+, 295.48% faster than Pentium 4 3.4 GHz and 322.19% faster than Pentium 4 3.2 GHz.