Maxon releases Cinebench 2026 with support for NVIDIA Blackwell and AMD RDNA 4 GPUs
Maxon has released Cinebench 2026, the newest version of its Cinebench benchmarking tool. It uses Redshift, the default rendering engine in Cinema 4D, to measure CPU and GPU performance with 3D rendering workloads.
The update adds Windows support for NVIDIA Blackwell GeForce GPUs (RTX 5000 series) and AMD 9000 series GPUs. It also adds support for NVIDIA Hopper and Blackwell data center GPUs. On the Apple side, Cinebench 2026 supports Macs powered by M4 and M5 chips.
Cinebench 2026 moves to a newer Redshift rendering engine. Maxon says this is meant to better reflect what users can expect from Cinema 4D 2026 performance. A new test targets SMT-enabled CPU cores, letting users compare SMT performance gains against single-threaded execution. Platform support now covers Windows x86-64, Windows on ARM64, and macOS. That includes a wider range of modern laptops and desktops.
Source: Maxson
Maxon also changed how scores are calculated. Cinebench 2026 results are not comparable to Cinebench 2024 scores, due to the updated Redshift tech and performance tuning.
Cinebench 2026 is available as a free download from Maxon’s website.
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