Celeron, Pentium Dual Core and Athlon X2: Which One is the Best USD 70 CPU?

Cinebench 10

Cinebench 10 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) to speed up the process.

On Cinebench the winner was Athlon X2 4600+, which achieved a performance similar to Core 2 Duo E4400 and was 7.32% faster than Pentium Dual Core E2180, 17.54% faster than Pentium Dual Core E2160 and 17.61% faster than Celeron E1400.

Celeron E1400 and Pentium Dual Core E2160 achieved the same performance, showing us that its larger cache compensated its lower clock rate  on this program.

Core 2 Duo E4400 was 5.76% faster than Pentium Dual Core E2180 and 15.90% faster than Celeron E1400. Pentium Dual Core E2180 was 9.58% faster than Celeron E1400. All these three CPUs run at the same clock rate, so on this application the larger memory cache makes a huge difference.