Maxon Announces Cinebench 2024 With Many Performance Benchmarking Improvements

Jakob Aylesbury / 8 months ago

Cinebench is one of the go-to benchmarks primarily for CPU performance and today developers Maxon have announced the 2024 edition of the popular benchmarking tool.

Introduction of Redshift & GPU Benchmarks

Cinebench 2024 brings in the power of the Redshift Rendering Engine which unlike its predecessors using Cinema 4D’s standard renderer, 2024 uses the same render algorithms across both CPU and GPU implementations. The introduction of the Redshift engine ensures that the performance testing aligns seamlessly with the demands of modern creative workflows and provides accurate and consistent results. On the mention of GPU, for the past decade, GPU benchmarking has been absent from Cinebench and now this latest version brings that back with dual performance evaluation of both the CPU and GPU. The CPU and GPU benchmarking is also unified with a consistent scene file for both.

The hardware compatibility has also in turn been increased with AMD, NVIDIA and Apple GPUs as well as full support for X86/64 architecture from AMD and Intel with both Windows and macOS as well as Arm64 architecture for Apple silicon and Snapdragon silicon.

Improved User Interface and Under-The-Hood Enhancements

Aside from the new benchmarks, the user interface has been redesigned to enhance the user experience and showcase the artistic endeavours achieved with the Redshift render engine in Cinema 4D. Underneath this interface, Cinebench has been improved with several performance-enhancing features. The memory footprint has been increased threefold compared to Cinebench R23 plus a six-fold rise in computational effort and utilization of newer instruction sets.