Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9650 Review (Page 7 of 10)

Page 7 - Benchmark: Cinebench R10

About Cinebench R10

CINEBENCH is a real-world test suite that assesses your computer's performance capabilities. MAXON CINEBENCH is based on MAXON's award-winning animation software, CINEMA 4D, which is used extensively by studios and production houses worldwide for 3D content creation. MAXON software has been used in blockbuster movies such as Spider-Man, Star Wars, The Chronicles of Narnia and many more.

MAXON CINEBENCH runs several tests on your computer to measure the performance of the main processor and the graphics card under real world circumstances. The benchmark application makes use of up to 16 CPUs or CPU cores and is available for Windows (32-bit and 64-Bit) and Macintosh (PPC and Intel-based).

The resulting values among different operating systems are 100% comparable and therefore very useful with regard to purchasing decision-making. It can also be used as a marketing tool for hardware vendors or simply to compare hardware among colleagues or friends.

From: Developer's Page

In our Cinebench R10's single threaded benchmark results, the QX9650's raw per-core performance was 18.9% better than the E7200, which is quite close to the processor's 18.6% clock speed advantage -- the extra few points probably came from the extra cache.

This is the one where all four core kicks in and does the dirty work. Naturally, the Core 2 Extreme QX9650's higher clock speed, greater L2 cache quantity, and more core count had a huge advantage in this regard and scored 2.2 times higher than the E7200 dual core processor.


Page Index
1. Introduction and Specifications
2. Intel QX9650 Architecture; Test System
3. Benchmark: EVEREST CPU
4. Benchmark: EVEREST FPU
5. Benchmark: PCMark05
6. Benchmark: 3DMark06
7. Benchmark: Cinebench R10
8. Benchmark: SYSMark 2007
9. Benchmark: SuperPI 1M; Overclocking
10. Power Consumption and Conclusion