The performance trend we've seen through much of this article continued with
Cinebench. Here, the Core i9-10900K offered single-thread performance in-line with the best of them, and a multi-threaded score that lands just a notch behind the 12-core Ryzen 9 3900X. The Core i5-10600K lands just behind the 8-core Ryzen 7 2700X.
POV-Ray, or the Persistence of Vision Ray-Tracer, is an open source tool for creating realistically lit images. We tested with POV-Ray's standard 'one-CPU' and 'all-CPU' benchmarking tools 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, for the most part at least. In this application, the Core i9-10900K pulls ahead of the Ryzen 9 3900X, but there's no catching the higher-end processors.
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Blender |
3D Rendering Benchmark |
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Blender is a free and open source 3D creation suite that can handle everything from modeling, rigging, animation, simulation, rendering, compositing and motion tracking, even video editing and game creation. It has a built-in benchmarking tool that will track the time it takes to complete rendering a particular model. We used a CPU-focused BMW model for these tests here...
Once again we see a similar performance trend. In the Blender benchmark, the Core i9-10900K finishes just behind the Ryzen 9 3900X and the Core i6-10600K absolutely crushes the previous-gen Core i5.
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STARS Euler3d |
Computational Fluid Dynamics |
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STARS Euler3d is a computational fluid dynamics benchmark which uses a CFD grid that contains 1.23 million tetrahedral elements and 223 thousand nodes. The benchmark executable advances a mach 0.50 Advisory Group for Aerospace Research, or AGARD, flow solution for an aeroelastic test wing. The benchmark score is reported as a CFD cycle frequency in Hertz.
This benchmark is multi-threaded, but is also dependent on platform bandwidth, and cache and memory latency, so the final results are not determined by compute performance alone. Cache sizes and memory bandwidth affect the score as well...
We know, we're being very repetitive, but the numbers are what they are. The same performance trend we've seen throughout this review played out again in the Fluid Dynamics benchmark, though the
Core i5-10600K was also able to overtake the 8-core Ryzen 7 2700X here.