Intel Clarkdale Core i5 Desktop Processor Debuts
Cinebench R10 and POV-Ray
Cinebench R10 is an OpenGL 3D rendering performance test based on Cinema 4D from Maxon. Cinema 4D is a 3D rendering and animation tool suite used by 3D animation houses and producers like Sony Animation and many others. It's very demanding of system processor resources and is an excellent gauge of pure computational throughput.
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This is a multi-threaded, multi-processor aware benchmark that renders a single 3D scene and tracks the length of the entire process. The rate at which each test system was able to render the entire scene is represented in the graph below.
The new Core i5 661 rocked Cinebench's single-threaded test, placing second overall thanks to its relatively high frequency (and the micro-architecture, of course). In the multi-threaded test though, despite being HT enabled, the Core i5 661 couldn't hang with the true quad-cores.
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POV-Ray , or the Persistence of Vision Ray-Tracer, is a top-notch open source tool for creating realistically lit 3D graphics artwork. We tested with POV-Ray's standard 'all-CPU' benchmarking tool on all of our test machines, and recorded the scores reported for each. Results are measured in pixels-per-second throughput; higher scores equate to better performance.
POV-Ray tells essentially the same story as Cinebench. The Core i5 661 puts up some impressive numbers in the single-threaded test, but falls victim to the quad-cores in the multi-threaded test.
