Rendering Performance
We have been quoted as saying that Pov-Ray is the poster child of multi-threaded processing and we stick by our remarks! The amount of improvement you get in moving from 2 to 4 cores is impressive: 107% in our case here comparing the X6800 to the QX9650.
CineBench rendering software has been another staple of multi-threaded testing and is a tool that most companies use to benchmark their hardware. What is really impressive here is how the Yorkfield core is able to improve on the QX6850 – the new QX9650 is more than 10% faster when running at the same FSB and clock speed.