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 X4 620 was 35% faster than Phenom II X2 555, while Phenom II X2 555 was 13% faster than Pentium E6300. Athlon II X4 635 was 54% faster than Core 2 Duo E7500. Impressive.

Installing a "real" video card didn't impact the results.