MAXON CINEBENCH is based on MAXON's animation software, CINEMA 4D, which is used extensively by studios and production houses worldwide for 3D content creation.

MAXON software 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.

The Asus P5Q Deluxe had the highest performance at both subtests.

- x264 HD Benchmark

x264 Benchmark utilizes the next generation of Video Encoding benchmarks with support for x264 codec that is considered to be one of the most demanding for Video applications. Simply put, it is a reproducible measure of fast your machine can encode a short, HD video clip to a high quality x264 video file. It's nice because everyone running it will use the identical video clip and software. The video encoder (x264.exe) reports a fairly accurate internal benchmark (frames per second) for each pass of the video encode and it also uses multi-core processors very efficiently.

The benchmark procedure is very simple, you just run a batch file that encodes the same file four times. The software provides results for both for first pass and second pass of encoding.

Minor differences again here with the Asus P5Q Deluxe found to be slightly faster than the rest.

- TMPGEnc 4 Xpress

For our test we use an AVI file around 350MB encoded with Xvid (Mpeg4 ASP) codec. We use the built- in Mpeg4 ASP/AVC MediaEncoder profile and by dividing the total frames via total encoding time, we get the average frame/sec speed.

Asus P5Q Deluxe had the highest rendering speeds at both ASP & AVC encoding.