Cinebench Review
Muredac Ford
Cinebench 2024 utilizes the power of Redshift, Cinema 4D's default rendering engine, to evaluate your computer's CPU and GPU capabilities. Cinebench 2024 is designed to accommodate a broad range of hardware configurations - while it seamlessly supports x86/64 architecture (Intel/AMD) on Windows and macOS, it also extends its reach to Apple Silicon on macOS and Arm64 CPUs on Windows, ensuring compatibility with the latest advancements in hardware technology. Additionally, Cinebench 2024 streamlines the benchmarking process by utilizing a consistent scene file for both CPU and GPU testing. Best of all: It's free!
Anyone who needs to evaluate hardware performance should add Maxon Cinebench to their testing arsenal. Any computer owner can evaluate their individual system, IT administrators can use Cinebench to help make purchase decisions, journalists can use the results in reviewing hardware and manufacturers can utilize the feedback to optimize their latest products. Cinebench offers a real-world benchmark that incorporates a user's common tasks when using Cinema 4D and Redshift to measure a system's performance.
Products included in our Maxon One suite of creative tools are based on the same rendering technology that is used in Cinebench. When creating in Maxon One, you will benefit from the industry leading rendering performance you have known from Cinebench and utilize your hardware's capabilities to the fullest. Maxon One is our all-in-one solution that combines the power of all our industry-leading 3D animation, motion graphics, filmmaking, digital sculpting and rendering software like Cinema 4D, Forger, Red Giant, Redshift, and ZBrush in an integrated package.
Spent the last month troubleshooting my installers crashing and programs crashing with Exception code: 0xc0000005 (Access Violation). Replaced every piece of my system and did every diagnostic under the sun - everything came back clean.
This morning I was messing around in Cinebench R23 and while the single-core benchmark came back perfect, the program instantly crashes when I run the multi-core benchmark. Looking through the crash logs I found it had the exact same error code (0xc0000005). This lead me to believe that the program crashes might actually be caused by the CPU and lead me down a further rabbit hole.
I also want to mention I have the same issue. I've run Memtest86, swapped memory, reinstalled OS, used a different SSD. The only two components I have not altered has been the Motherboard (Asus z790-p WIFI) and CPU, 13900K. This problem started about 3 weeks ago for me. BIOS is up to date and both sets of RAM I've used is from the QVL for the Motherboard. I just updated to the Release Preview Build of Windows 11 to test that out and don't have any positive or negative changes on that yet. I have included my system info to add another instance of this for Intels/your case review.
Since yesterday, I found 'Intel Turbo Boost' from BIOS, I disabled it, my system became stable, normal but CPU frequency became under 3Ghz, I contacted a CPU vendor, also a Motherboard vendor, I think I'm gonna let them check my CPU and Motherboard. If there is anything faulty found, I'm gonna receive a normally working one. But it will take a week or more.
I wanna tell you that I really screamed that much, especially when I played 'Diablo IV, MW III', they crashed like Hell, nightmares, almost every time! Wow, I just cursed developers and I was happy when they were fired. But now, I feel sorry.
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Cinebench now supports CPU and GPU rendering in one application. Users are no longer tied to using Cinebench to evaluate CPU rendering and the Redshift benchmark to evaluate their GPU. This update also expands platform compatibility beyond Intel or AMD based Windows systems to Apple silicon on macOS and Arm64 on Windows. NVIDIA, AMD, and Apple graphics are supported on the GPU side, though there is no word yet on Intel GPUs.
With such a drastic change to how Cinebench works, one temporary side effect is that scores from Cinebench 2024 cannot be directly compared to Cinebench R23. For example, in Cinebench R23, an AMD Threadripper Pro 5965WX receives a multi-core CPU score of around 40,000, while the same CPU scores around 33,000 in 2024. It will take us, and other reviewers, quite some time to build up a large enough database of results to compare older hardware to. Fortunately, Cinebench is free to download, so you can compare your system to newer hardware as results come in.
Cinebench 2024 is still a rendering only benchmark. There are no tests that reflect modeling or simulation workflows in Cinema 4D. For the most part, the results provided can be used to infer performance in those situations. Modeling and animation are mostly single-core, while simulations are multi-core or GPU, depending on your settings.
This is my collection of Cinebench 2024 single and multi core scores from my laptop reviews. You can use this benchmark data to get an idea of the CPU performance to expect from a particular laptop / mobile processor.
Cinebench R23 is a popular benchmarking tool to measure a CPU's rendering performance. It provides users with data about a CPU's single and multi-thread performance, making it easier to compare laptops and make a buying decision. This article details how we perform the benchmark and how the results can help you shop for a new laptop.
Cinebench R23 is a productivity benchmark that we perform to evaluate a laptop's CPU rendering performance. Although it's designed to measure performance by simulating an average user's workflow within Maxon's Cinema 4D application (3D animation, modeling, simulation, and rendering software), this benchmarking tool still gives us a rough idea of how a CPU performs relative to others. The results can be helpful for narrowing your search when shopping for a laptop, especially for professionals in 3D animation.
Like other benchmarks in our laptop reviews, we perform the Cinebench R23 test in a temperature-controlled room at 22C (71.6F), with a tolerance of 0.5C. We ensure that the laptop is fully charged and plugged in with its included power adapter. We also ensure that there aren't any applications running in the background aside from those needed for the operating system, and we disable the Bluetooth and Wi-Fi. There are two tests: a single-thread and a multi-thread. We perform the single-thread test twice and the multi-thread test three times, with a 3-minute cooldown period between each run.
Cinebench R23 supports Windows and macOS natively, including Macs with Apple silicon, but it doesn't support Chrome OS or Linux. As such, we can't perform this test on Chromebooks. That said, most Chromebooks have low-power CPUs that aren't designed for rendering tasks anyway.
The single-thread test measures the performance of a single core running a single thread (processing one command line at a time). Again, although this test is specific to 3D rendering and related tasks, we can still use the data to get a rough idea of the CPU's processing power. The single-thread test shows how well the CPU performs in applications that don't 'scale' well with more cores/threads, like programs with instructions that need to be processed sequentially or are dependent on user interaction; in short, workloads that are difficult to parallelize (splitting the workload into multiple threads). The score doesn't mean much on its own; it's only helpful when comparing performance between different CPUs. Note that the score isn't comparable with scores obtained in previous versions of Cinebench.
The multi-thread test shows how well the CPU can handle multiple commands simultaneously using all available cores. The score gives users an idea of the CPU's performance in multi-threaded applications or workloads. Most applications are multi-threaded, like 3D animation and video editing software, and even heavy multitasking like running a video in the background while working with a dozen browser tabs open is considered a multi-threaded workload. Like the single-thread score, the number is only used for comparison with other CPUs, and it isn't comparable with scores from previous versions of Cinebench.
Although Cinebench R23 refers to the two tests as 'single-core' and 'multi-core', we refer to them as 'single-thread' and 'multi-thread'. This is because many modern CPUs have a feature that allows you to use the CPU more efficiently and process two 'threads' simultaneously, called 'Hyper-Threading' (HTT) on Intel CPUs and 'Simultaneous Multithreading' (SMT) on AMD CPUs. The 'single-core' test only uses one thread at a time, even on CPUs with Hyper-Threading or SMT, while the 'multi-core' test uses all available cores and threads.
Generally speaking, a CPU that can handle multiple threads at once is better than one that can't. A CPU with more threads can complete tasks in multi-threaded applications faster, and it can also handle more tasks simultaneously without slowing down. That said, if you have to decide between a 2-core, 4-thread CPU (with HTT or SMT) and a 4-core CPU with no HTT or SMT, you're better off with the CPU that has more physical cores. This is because HTT or SMT performance depends heavily on individual software optimization, meaning some programs might run slower on a CPU with HTT or SMT than one with more physical cores but without the technology.
If you want to test your computer's CPU performance, you can download Cinebench R23 directly from Maxon's website, the Windows Store, or the Apple App Store. Maxon lists the following requirements to run the benchmark:
The Cinebench R23 benchmark is a quick way to compare CPU rendering performance between laptops. The results make it easier for those working in fields like 3D animation, rendering, or simulations to narrow their search for a new computer. You can also use this benchmark tool to monitor CPU performance over time, especially after a significant firmware update or hardware changes.
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