Cinebench and Geekbench:
Cinebench R23:
How does this version differ from its predecessors? Firstly, it’s more realistic in terms of the score obtained depending on the processor used. As a reminder, Cinebench only tests the capabilities of your processor in single or multi-thread mode. But the main difference is that the benchmark lasts 10 minutes by default! MAXON’s idea with Cinebench R23 is to offer a benchmark that provides a degree of stability in terms of temperature and boost frequencies. Here we’ll be testing the fast version in Single Core and Multi Core.
It’s our Core Ultra 9 285K that tops our rankings, in both Single Core and Multi Core. The arrival of this new top-of-the-range Arrow Lake processor highlights the enormous gain also achieved by the Ryzen 9 9950X. As far as the Core Ultra 5 245K is concerned, the aim is to do better than the i5-14600K, and this has been achieved, even if the difference is more marked in Single Core.
Cinebench R24:
As you might expect, this is the latest version of MAXON’s Cinebench benchmark. It was released in September 2023 to provide more accurate testing for current and next-generation CPUs. You’ll see straight away that the scores are lower, the benchmark lasts longer and it’s also possible to evaluate your graphics card.
There’s no change in performance, with our Core Ultra 9 285K dominating the ranking and our Core Ultra 5 245K doing better than the i5-14600K.
Geekbench 3.4.4 :
This is a benchmark available in several revisions, with version 5 being used more and more in recent months and often used for CPU performance leaks, although the latest version is slowly taking over. It allows you to obtain two scores: one in single core and the other in multi-core. To take full advantage of this benchmark, you will need a licence. Even if this benchmark is no longer really up to date, it is still very often used by overclockers to highlight the memory score .
Here, the latest Ryzen 9000Xs are the most productive in Single Core, even if the ranking returns to a more logical order when we switch to the Multi Core score. Note again the position of the Ryzen 9 9950X, which is never far behind our Core Ultra 9 285K.
Geekbench 5.2.5 :
Like the version above, version 5 of Geekbench allows you to test memory and processor performance. We’ve decided to add this extra benchmark, but why? The CPU benchmark uses new tests that more closely simulate the tasks faced by processors in recent applications. Geekbench 5 also increases the memory used during the benchmark to better reflect the impact of this parameter on the CPU results.
The findings are identical to those in version 3.4.4, with AMD dominating the Single Core segment and Intel taking the upper hand in Multi Core. There is also a notable gain for the Core Ultra 5 245K.
Geekbench 6.3.0 :
We recently received a key for version 6 of Geekbench. So we took advantage of the change in configuration to add this new benchmark to our test suite. This is the latest benchmark and is intended to be more representative of current configurations. Primate Labs also assures us that the scores displayed by Geekbench 6 are more accurate in relation to the various existing devices and platforms. The test is also much longer than the other two versions we use.
With this latest test, the gaps have narrowed and although it’s still the Ryzen 9 9950X that dominates the Single Core, the Ryzen 9 9950X comes very close to the Core Ultra 9 285K in Multi Core. The difference between the two is 4.5%.