Professional Applications
CineBench 9.5
This new addition to the CineBench testing program updates the code to run in 64-bit mode if the user desires. We are still using the 32-bit Windows here, so not a lot has changed though scores between versions are not comparable.
Pov Ray 3.7 Beta 14
Pov Ray is one of the staple benchmarks for rendering, and their latest revision, 3.7, adds a lot of multi-threading optimizations.
3D Studio Max 5.1
In both DirectX and OpenGL flavors, this World Bench test goes through a basic 3D editing session and renders the images as well.
SPECviewperf 8.01
This benchmark has been a standard for quite a while in the workstation world and the 8th iteration of it includes newer applications and simulation models.
The CineBench render test has long been a staple of multi-threaded benchmarking, and here the quad-core QX6700 processor sees a 71% performance gain over the E6700 and a 79.5% gain over the AMD FX-62 processor. In our newly added Pov-Ray 3.7 test, the quad-core QX6700 see a 101% gain over the E6700 and a 119% gain over the AMD FX-62!
The rest of the tests, including the World Bench 5 based 3D Studio applications and SPECviewperf, are only running single threaded or dual-threaded configurations so the increases are not seen on Kentsfield.
