Cinebench 2003 lighting and rendering
Cinebench is based on Maxon's Cinema 4D modeling, rendering, and animation app. This new revision of Cinebench measures performance in a number of ways, including 3D rendering, software shading, and OpenGL shading with and without hardware acceleration.

Cinebench 2003 is multithreaded, so it takes advantage of Hyper-Threading. For the P4 'C', 3.2GHz, 3.06GHz, and 3.0GHz systems, I've reported the multithreaded rendering test result, which was always better than the single-threaded result. For the Athlon XP and the older P4 chips, I've reported the single-CPU result.

The Pentium 4 3.2GHz takes the top spot once more. With Hyper-Threading and higher clock speeds, the Intel chips are opening up a widening lead over the AMD chips in this test.

The Pentium 4 3.2GHz takes two out of three of the remaining Cinebench tests. However, the Athlon XP 3200+ puts up more of a fight, staying near the top of the pack in the software shading tests and achieving the highest score in the hardware-accelerated shading test.