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Rendering and Encoding Tests Next up are the rendering and encoding tests. For this, we are going to look at Cinebench, POV-Ray, and x.264-480p. Cinebench 10 Cinebench 10 is a very well known rendering benchmark that can utilize a single CPU, multiple CPUs, or even GPUs. For this test, we used Cinebench 10 64-bit, looking at both single threaded and multi-threaded performance. Higher scores are better.
For the single threaded test, the stock X4 955 beats out the stock x3360 by 400 points, however, the per-clock advantage lies with the x3360, and thus it takes over the lead in the max overclock test by 500 points.
In the multithreaded version of the test, the stock 955 takes out the x3360 by 1650 points, but again loses in both the per-clock test and the max overclock test. POV-Ray POV-Ray is another popular rendering benchmark that also supports both single and multiple threads. Test results are measured in Pixels Per Second, and a higher score is better. For this test, we used version 3.7 beta 29.
The PovRay test seems to favor the AMD architecture a little better than Cinebench does, as the X4 955 takes a slim lead in the per-clock test. Again, the stock 955 does a pretty good job of taking down the stock x3360.
In the multi-threaded version of POV-Ray, it is again a close call between the x3360 and the X4 955 in the per-clock test. In the stock comparison, the X4 955 again takes down the Intel chip by 400 points. X.264 Encoding Test Finally, we have the X.264 encoding test. In this test, a small video file is encoded into the H.264 format. There are 5 runs that get two passes each; since each run typically performs identically to the other 4, we are just going to report both passes of the first run. Higher scores are better.
In the X.264 first test, the overclocked X4 955 takes the overall lead, even over the 4GHz x3360. Again, at stock the 955 easily keeps the x3360 at bay. In the second pass, the x3360 retakes the lead when overclocked, but still is no contest at stock speeds.
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