What is CineBench R11.5 (11.529)?

An older version of very popular multi-platform CPU benchmarking tool. The benchmarks consists of modelling, rendering, animation tasks. It can be used to test single threaded and multithreaded performance of CPU. There's also GPU benchmark available, which tests OpenGL capabilities (however this benchmark is rarely used due to how poorly results translate to anything tangible in practical scenarios). This is a synthetic benchmark and became famous for its scores translating well to most practical usage scenarios. Pretty much any processor improvement is well reflected in score. While it's not widely known, R11.5 scores are actually nearly identical to later version R15 scores (if decimal point is ignored and scores of R11 test are increased by 10-20%), thus it's easy to compare version R11.5 results with version R15 results. Although, Maxon never officially said that scores between R11.5 and R15 are interchangeable.

 

For reference, a Core 2 Quad Q8300 CPU with default settings scores 2.77 points in multithreaded test and 0.74 points in single threaded test.

Download CineBench R11.5 (11.529) for Mac

Architecture

OSX Universal Binary

System Requirements

From Mac OS 10.3

Compatibility notes

Architecture: PPC + Intel x64 (Universal Binary)

Mac OS X 10.3.9 - Mac OS X 10.6.x