We recently stumbled onto this great little tool called Kribi bench. It is a 3D rendering benchmark produced by the people at Adept Development. Kribi bench is an SSE aware software renderer where a 3D model is rendered and animated by the host CPU and the average frame rate is reported. Now the great thing is, it therefore bypasses the GPU... so everything is in direct relation to your memory and CPU.

We used two of the included models with this benchmark: a "Sponge Explode" model consisting of over 19.2 million polygons and the test suite's "City" model that is comprised of over 107 billion polygons. The score is the time in seconds needed to finish a rendered sequence.

This is the first time we are implementing this multi-threaded tool. We always see the multiple cores kick in very well with this test, this is why we like it so much. the lead here goes towards Intel's Q6600, but in all honesty the differences are extremely marginal.

Data compression

A quick data compression test measured in MB/sec, this test only used two threads though. It utilizes ZLIB and then pushes it over two threads, which will bring the results a bit closer together. The Phenom X4 based PCs surely love it. The 780G platform is again slightly faster, but the overall difference is so small.