Cinebench 2026 Arrives With Support for Blackwell GPUs, Apple M5 & Snapdragon

It's easy to think of Cinebench as a purely synthetic benchmark given the way it works: you download a dedicated benchmark application, you run it from whatever folder, and it does its thing before spitting out a number that vaguely tells you how your system performs. That feels similar to synthetic benchmarks like 3DMark, which aren't directly related to any particular real-world application. Cinebench isn't synthetic, though; it's based on the Redshift renderer used in Maxon's Cinema4D modeling software. There's a new version of Intel's favorite benchmark out, and this one promises to punish Apple and Qualcomm CPUs alongside AMD and NVIDIA GPUs.

One of the weaknesses of Cinebench 24 as a benchmark was its limited hardware support. x86-64 CPUs on Windows, NVIDIA GPU from recent generations, and... that was about it. The new version brings with it new test scenes that the ...