A8-5600K vs. Pentium G2120 CPU Review

Cinebench 11.5

Cinebench 11.5 is based on the 3D software Cinema 4D. It is very useful to measure the performance gain given by having more than one CPU installed on the system when rendering heavy 3D images. Rendering is one area in which having more than one CPU helps considerably, because usually, rendering software recognizes several CPUs. (Cinebench, for instance, can use up to 16 CPUs.)

Since we were interested in measuring the rendering performance, we ran the test called “Rendering x CPUs,” which renders a “heavy” sample image using all available CPUs or “cores” – either real or virtual – to speed up the process. (On CPUs with Hyper-Threading technology, each core is recognized as two cores by the operating system.)

Here the A8-5600K achieved the same performance level as the A8-3870K, and was 7% faster than the A8-3850, 26% faster than the Core i3-2100, and 28% faster than the Pentium G2120.