Cinebench 2026 scores and GPU and CPU ranking for 3D rendering

The score is proportional to the number of frames rendered per minute on the test scene. A ratio therefore reads directly: a machine rated twice as high finishes the same scene in half the time, with identical settings.

The first gap in the data of 12 September 2026 is the one between the processor and the graphics card. At the top of the ranking, the NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Workstation Edition scores 18,024 points with OptiX, while the AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 16-Core Processor scores 737, a ratio of 24 to 1. This is why a processor score, Cinebench R23 included, says almost nothing about how long a Cycles render on a graphics card will take. If you are choosing a machine from these gaps, the guide best PC for 3D rendering reviews the graphics card, the VRAM and the processor.

The backend matters as much as the chip. The same NVIDIA card is measured with OptiX and with CUDA, a Radeon with HIP, a Mac with Metal, and the scores differ. The column states it for each line.

These medians describe the testers' machines. What our own machines measure on customer scenes, Cycles and EEVEE, is published on the Blender benchmark page.

According to Maxon's product page, consulted on 12 September 2026, Cinebench 2026 relies on Redshift, the default render engine of Cinema 4D, to evaluate the processor and the graphics card. The same test scene is used for both measurements. The tool covers x86/64 on Windows and macOS, Apple Silicon on macOS and Arm64 processors on Windows. It is free.

This is the change to remember compared with Cinebench R23, which only rated the processor. An R23 score and a 2026 score do not measure the same thing and do not convert into each other: the scene and the engine have changed. If you compare two machines, compare two scores from the same version, exactly as the table above is limited to Blender 5.0.0, 5.1.0, 5.1.1, 5.2.0.

For more on the versions and on reading a score, our dedicated guide covers the question: what is a good Cinebench score for 3D rendering (in French).