POV-Ray and CineBench

POV-Ray 3.7 Beta 20b

POV-Ray is one of the staple benchmarks for rendering, and their latest revision, 3.7, adds a lot of multi-threading optimizations.

Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6850 Processor Review - Processors 29

Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6850 Processor Review - Processors 30

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. 

Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6850 Processor Review - Processors 31

Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6850 Processor Review - Processors 32

Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6850 Processor Review - Processors 33

In our two professional rendering tests the QX6850 is the easy winner again as the four cores are fully utilized in these multi-threaded applications. 

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