Maxon Releases Cinebench 2026 With Expanded Support
Maxon has released Cinebench 2026, the latest version of its industry-standard benchmarking tool, adding support for Nvidia Blackwell 5000 and AMD 9000 GPUs on Windows, Nvidia Hopper and Blackwell data-center GPUs, plus Apple M4 and M5 systems. The release updates the Redshift rendering engine and adds an SMT performance test, improving real-world Cinema 4D 2026 performance prediction; scores are not comparable to Cinebench 2024.
Key Points
- 1Adds support for Nvidia Blackwell 5000, AMD 9000, Hopper data-center GPUs, and Apple M4/M5
- 2Updates Redshift engine and adds SMT CPU test to better reflect Cinema 4D 2026 workloads
- 3Enables practitioners to evaluate modern CPU/GPU performance; scores are not comparable to Cinebench 2024
Scoring Rationale
Official Maxon release adds modern GPU and Apple Silicon support and Redshift updates; limited novelty beyond compatibility and scoring changes.
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