CINEBENCH is the free benchmarking tool for Windows and Mac OS based on the powerful 3D software CINEMA 4D. Consequently, the results of tests conducted using CINEBENCH 9.5 carry significant weight when analyzing a computer’s performance in everyday use.

Especially a system’s CPU and the OpenGL capabilities of its graphics card are put through their paces (even multiprocessor systems with up to 16 dedicated CPUs or processor cores). During the testing procedure, all relevant data is ascertained with which the performance of different computers can subsequently be compared, regardless of operating system. All tests were done with the latest available build (R9.5), and the sum of each subtest is displayed at the following chart, except OpenGL Software & Hardware Lighting tests, since both depend at the installed VGA card.

CineBench is one of the few benchmarks that supports multi-core CPUs. At 1x CPU rendering and C4D Shading tests, the XE6800 gets first place with the highest running frequency. However, in the x CPU rendering test, we see the true power of the QX6700, being 55.33% faster than the XE6800 and 88.41% than the E6600.

SuperPI has become an utility to benchmark modern systems. In August 1995, the calculation of pi up to 4,294,960,000 decimal digits was succeeded by using a supercomputer at the University of Tokyo. The program was written by D.Takahashi and he collaborated with Dr. Y.Kanada at the computer center, the University of Tokyo. This record-breaking program was ported to personal computer environment such as Windows NT and Windows 95 and called Super PI.

The software offers up to 32M calculations of PI numbers, for all CPUs we tested up to 8M calculations and sum them up for a total score.

The XE6800 registers the lowest time to calculate 1M+2M+4M+8M SuperPI numbers. The QX6700, despite its four cores, comes second with 5.52mins. Perhaps, an updated version of SuperPI with multi-core support would further reduce the calculation time.