Render Tests
CineBench 10This rendering benchmark based off of the Cinema 4D engine is a terrific indicator for multi-threaded processing.
POV-Ray 3.7 Beta
POV-Ray has long been the poster child for multi-threaded processing and rendering.
Blender
Blender is a free open source 3D engine that is a popular choice amongst college students and small developers.
Extra cores for this type for work will always show far better performance. The 1090T is almost in striking distance to the i7-980X in these workloads.
the performance/watt for the
the performance/watt for the Thuban is increased 13.25% by disabling the turbo-core feature. (methodology: I took the mean of the Turbo off/Turbo on values)