Athlon II X4 640 vs. Core i3 530 CPU Review

Cinebench 11.5

Cinebench 11.5 is based on the 3D software, Cinema 4d. It is very useful in measuring 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, as on CPUs with Hyper-Threading technology, each core is recognized as two cores by the operating system) to speed up the process.

On Cinebench with the integrated video enabled, the Athlon II X4 640 was 36% faster than the Core i3-530. This result was already expected, since for 3D rendering having “real” CPU cores is the most important thing to improve performance. Installing a "real" video card didn’t impact the results.