Maxon's Cinebench is a real-world cross-platform test suite that evaluates your computer's hardware capabilities. Improvements to Cinebench Release 20 reflected the overall advancements to CPU and rendering technology in recent years, providing a more accurate measurement of Cinema 4D's ability to take advantage of multiple CPU cores and modern processor features available to the average user.

In October 2020 Maxon launched Cinebench R23. This release formulated an updated test that defined a notational runtime of 10 minutes for both single and multicore tests, minimising the impact of initial performance spikes caused by a high Turbo/Boost clock at the start. The scores generated are not directly comparable to the R20 results, but we've included them here for reference.



A Cinebench R20 multi-threaded score of 3946 with a single core score of 536 certainly won’t be topping any charts. These results are closer to those posted by a Ryzen 5 3600X (a mid-range CPU now two generations out of date) than the 5600, reflecting its slightly awkward position in AMD’s product stack.



Cinebench R23 is a more representative test for modern many-core CPUs. The result neatly bisects the scores we’d expect from the Ryzen 5 3600X and 5600, the latter of which reaches a touch under 11000 at stock.

Obviously these results are nothing to write home about, and if anything show that AMD would have been well served by extending AMD's ‘Ryzen 3’ branding to the desktop lineup and putting this chip under its banner. It is, in effect, a great entry-level chip, rather than a mediocre mid-range one.

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7-Zip is open-source software which unpackages compressed (zipped) files. It also features a benchmark which measures your systems ability to unpack files, typically stressing CPU and memory performance.



The system achieved a total rating of 68.58 GIPS during decompress testing, indicating that the test was making effective use of all 12 threads available.