Cinebench 2026 is here, and it’s ready for RDNA 4 and Nvidia Blackwell GPUs
Maxon launches Cinebench 2026 with dedicated CPU and GPU tests
Maxon has officially released Cinebench 2026, a new version of their popular benchmarking utility. This benchmarking tool uses Redshift, the default rendering engine for Cinema 4D. It can be used to test both CPU and GPU performance in 3D rendering workloads.
Cinebench 2026 supports Windows PC and macOS, with the Windows version having dedicated x86_64 and ARM64 versions. This new version is designed for use with modern PC hardware, including AMD’s RDNA 4 GPUs, Nvidia Blackwell GPUs, and Nvidia’s Hopper and Blackwell datacenter GPUs. It also supports Apple’s new M4 and M5 silicon.
Scores from Cinebench 2026 are not comparable with scores from prior versions of Cinebench. This new benchmark uses the latest version of Redshift, leveraging new technological advancements. It also includes new tests that allow users to compare single-core and single-threaded CPU performance.
Maxon is thrilled to announce the highly anticipated release of Cinebench 2026, its latest iteration of the industry-standard benchmarking software, which has been a cornerstone in computer performance evaluation for two decades. Widely used by reviewers, hardware manufacturers, and everyday computer owners, Cinebench utilizes the power of Redshift, Cinema 4D’s default rendering engine, to accurately assess and evaluate CPU and GPU performance using real-world 3D rendering workloads.
Cinebench 2026 takes advantage of the latest developments in hardware technology, adding compatibility with Nvidia’s new Blackwell GPUs (5000 series) and AMD 9000 series GPUs on Windows, as well as Nvidia Hopper and Blackwell data center GPUs. Additionally, Cinebench 2026 now supports Apple M4 and M5 powered systems.
To better utilize modern hardware, Cinebench 2026 has been updated to the latest Redshift Rendering engine, leveraging technological advancements in Redshift’s development. This also allows users to more accurately predict the performance they can expect in Cinema 4D 2026 based on the results of Cinebench. Thanks to a new test that evaluates the performance of SMT enabled CPU cores, users can directly assess the performance gains offered by SMT compared to single-threaded execution.
Cinebench 2026 supports a broad range of hardware configurations, including systems running Windows x86-64, Windows ARM64, and macOS.
– Maxon
Cinebench 2026 is available to download now, with the Windows version being a 2.5 GB download. This download then decompresses into a folder that’s 3.85 GB in size. On Windows, the benchmark has dedicated GPU, CPU Multi-Core, CPU Single-Core and CPU Single-Thread tests. This allows CPU cores with SMT to be tested with and without their additional threads.
Cinebench is available for free from Maxon’s website.
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