Cinebench 10 is based on the 3D software, Cinema 4d. 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.

Since we were interested in measuring the rendering performance, we ran the test called “Rendering x CPUs,” which renders a “heavy” sample image using all available CPUs (or cores – either real or virtual, as on CPUs with Hyper-Threading technology, each core is recognized as two cores by the operating system) to speed up the process.

On Cinebench Athlon II X2 240e was 4.83% faster than Celeron E3200, with Athlon II X3 435 being 30.05% faster than Pentium E5200 – we can clearly see the difference of having an extra processing core can make if you run a program able to use it. Athlon II X3 435 was also 17.32% faster than Pentium E6300 and 37.04% faster than Athlon II X2 240e.

Installing a GeForce 9600 GT didn’t make any difference on the results.