Tuesday, March 5th 2019
Maxon Releases Cinebench R20 Benchmark
Maxon Tuesday unveiled its Cinebench R20 benchmark designed to test CPU performance at photorealistic rendering using the company's Cinema 4D R20 technology. The benchmark runs on any PC with at least 4 GB of memory and SSE3 instruction-set support, although it can scale across any number of cores, memory, and supports exotic new instruction-sets such as AVX2. Maxon describes Cinebench R20 as using four times the memory, and eight times the CPU computational power as Cinebench R15. The benchmark implements Intel Embree ray-tracing engine. Maxon is distributing Cinebench R20 exclusively through the Microsoft Store on the Windows platform.
Unlike its predecessor, Cinebench R20 lacks a GPU test. The CPU test scales by the number of CPU cores and SMT units available. It consists of a tiled rendering of a studio apartment living room scene by Render Baron, which includes ray-traced elements, high resolution textures, illumination, and reflections. The number of logical processors available determines the number of rendering instances. The benchmark does indeed have a large memory footprint, and rewards HTT or SMT and high clock-speeds, as our own quick test shows. A 4-core/8-thread Core i7-7700K beats our Core i5-9400F 6-core/6-thread processor.
Update (11th March): We have removed the portable version download at Maxon's request.
DOWNLOAD: Maxon Cinebench R20 (Microsoft Store)
Unlike its predecessor, Cinebench R20 lacks a GPU test. The CPU test scales by the number of CPU cores and SMT units available. It consists of a tiled rendering of a studio apartment living room scene by Render Baron, which includes ray-traced elements, high resolution textures, illumination, and reflections. The number of logical processors available determines the number of rendering instances. The benchmark does indeed have a large memory footprint, and rewards HTT or SMT and high clock-speeds, as our own quick test shows. A 4-core/8-thread Core i7-7700K beats our Core i5-9400F 6-core/6-thread processor.
Update (11th March): We have removed the portable version download at Maxon's request.
80 Comments on Maxon Releases Cinebench R20 Benchmark
Edit: Portable version now available here on TPU as per the edited article, use it instead.
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Well it's out for me as I can't install anything from the store without getting this error Code: 0x80070015 and I've tried everything to fix it including a clean install of windows 10 build 1809 something is just F'd up
So check your security software, system tweak tools, and any other software that might not seem related like the one mentioned above.
So the R20 version can use AVX but Zen is doing very well in it. So the data used in a single SIMD operation is at or less than 128bits in size (so not really AVX2) or its using a mixed workload instead of pure AVX. Otherwise Intel would have a marked advantage greater than the normal IPC difference (<10%). Right?
I find the auto installing apps and games when I first install Windows absolutely disgusting.
6800K @ 4.2
Ryzen 7 @ 3.6 on Windows 7, so ... confirmed working without Windows store or even Windows 10
Ryzen 5 2600X boosting from 3.9 to 4GHz on all cores.
I kinda miss the OpenGL benchmark (despite its inconsistent results)
Hmmm nope that didn't sort it out at all Buggar now I get an Code: 0x80070005 error instead
I just downloaded it from MS store.
Ran it and opened the containing folder for the executable and went up a directory.
Path created is
File structure is the following.
minus path.txt which is what I just pasted the path in to save it.
inside of bin is Cinebench.exe. Copy the entire root structure and all containing folders like above.
No modifications are needed for it to run.
Is there a contract with Maxxon or something that would disallow TPU to provide this ?
Why some of us might risk downloading something from a forum link and MEGA, not many are willing to do so.
Windows Store sucks, and so many of us enthusiasts are 1) Disabling UWP apps completely; 2) Not running Windows 10 at all
Funny thing is i'm using windows 10 enterprise and for some reason cinebench has issues with proper detection of OS as labels detected OS as "Windows 10, 64bit, unknown edition (72)".
Good, this should ensure the benchmark is impartial and gives fair an accurate results throughout all platforms.
www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/post-your-cinebench-r15-r20-score.213237/
In theory, by putting something like this as the SFX comment in say winrar.
But thats assuming they named the archive "Maxon"
Then in order to make it easier to execute they would probably have the SFX execute that setup line on a file called "CreateShortcut.bat" that was in the root of the SFX with all the other folders and files.
That batch would probably look alot like this.
Because im sure they would want to drop a shortcut on the desktop instead of rifling through the program files directory.
Edit:
Now this is weird...
It's possible to mess around with the textures:
Observe how I've wrote "wavetrex" with green on the table, painted some red stuff on the couch and applied a "cat carpet" on the ground (which repeats...)
Really weird stuff ;)
Previous version was too abstract... but this one...
Make it YOUR room with a bit of Photoshop :)