CINEBENCH is a real-world cross platform test suite that evaluates your computer's performance abilities. CINEBENCH is based on MAXON's award-winning animation program CINEMA 4D, which is used extensively by studios and production houses worldwide for 3D content creation. MAXON program has been used in blockbuster movies such as Spider-Man, Star Wars, The Chronicles of Narnia and many more.

CINEBENCH is the perfect tool to compare CPU and graphics performance across various systems and platforms (Windows and Mac OS X). And best of all: It's totally free.

1. Main Processor Performance (CPU)
CINEBENCH can measure systems with up to 64 processor threads. The test scene contains approximately 2,000 objects containing more than 300,000 total polygons and uses sharp and blurred reflections, area lights and shadows, procedural shaders, antialiasing, and much more. The result is given in points (pts). The higher the number, the faster your processor.

2. Graphics Card Performance (OpenGL)
This procedure uses a complex 3D scene depicting a car chase which measures the performance of your graphics card in OpenGL mode. The performance depends on various factors, such as the GPU processor on your hardware, but also on the drivers used. The graphics card has to display a huge amount of geometry (nearly 1 million polygons) and textures, as well as a variety of effects, such as environments, bump maps, transparency, lighting and more to evaluate the performance across different disciplines and give a good average overview of the abilities of your graphics hardware. The result given is measured in frames per second (fps). The higher the number, the faster your graphics card.

Anyone who needs to evaluate hardware performance should add MAXON CINEBENCH to the test tool arsenal.System administrators can use CINEBENCH to help make purchase decisions, journalists can use the results in reviewing hardware, hardware manufacturers may utilize the feedback in optimizing their latest products - or just any computer owner can evaluate his or her individual system. Unlike abstract benchmarks, which only test specific functions of CPUs or GPUs, CINEBENCH offers a real-world benchmark incorporating a user's common tasks within CINEMA 4D to measure a system's performance. For those who have to do a serious amount of testing CINEBENCH R11.5 also provides a command line option, allowing users to run automated test procedures.

CINEBENCH will not launch on unsupported processors. On systems lacking sufficient RAM to load the test scene, a warning will be displayed and the CPU benchmark will not be executed.

The CPU benchmark requires 1024 MB of RAM and a supported processor type (see list), running at a minimum clock speed of 1 GHz.

The OpenGL benchmark requires a graphics card that supports OpenGL 2.0 and has at least 128 MB of graphics memory. CINEBENCH will test the graphics card to ensure it supports the necessary features to display the test scene correctly. If the graphics card does not support the necessary features or is too slow (< 1 fps), a warning will be displayed and the OpenGL benchmark will not be performed.

Before benchmarking the graphic card, CINEBENCH will check if the hardware supports the necessary features. To ensure accurate results, CINEBENCH compares a single test frame rendered by the graphics card with reference images stored inside the application, and returns a Reference Match percentage.

The license of this software is Freeware, you can free download and free use this diagnostic software.