Maya 4 Render Test	Source: Maya-Test Center

Because of different displacement algorithms and continuous improvements of the renderer, Maya 3 and its corresponding batch renderer is absolutely required. The Test Scene is fairly processor-intensive and can take anywhere from 2 to 20 minutes to render depending on your system specifications. Rendering produces 1 frame (512x512pixels).

Maya 4 - RenderTest
1CPU:	Seconds	Ranking
Canada Computers Content Creator X2 WinXP 32 Bit	47
Canada Computers Content Creator X2 WinXP 64 Bit	48
All Available CPUs	Seconds	Ranking
Canada Computers Content Creator X2 WinXP 32 Bit	29
Canada Computers Content Creator X2 WinXP 64 Bit	29

If you intend to work with 3D rendering software like Maya, the Canada Computers Content Creator X2 certainly has plenty of power. Most professional 3D programs are SMP compatible, just be sure the feature is enabled when you go to render a scene. Maya 4 does not appear to have any preferences to whether a pure 32-bit operating system or 64-bit OS are installed. At the very least, this means if you are running WindowsXP Professional x64 Edition there won't be a performance penalty with this program.

DiVX Encoding	Source: PCStats

The DivX encoder benchmark contains both a 32-bit and a 64-bit benchmark that measures the performance of raw video encoding of the AMD optimized DivX video encoder version 503.

DiVX Encoding
FPS	FPS	Ranking
CC Content Creator X2 32 Bit OS/32 Bit Software	168.89
CC Content Creator X2 64 Bit OS/32 Bit Software	166.08
CC Content Creator X2 64 Bit OS/64 Bit Software	200.22

In the DiVX Encoding tests we get a very slight performance boost when running with a 64 bit OS but we get a very large boost when running the 64 bit version of the program.

Mini-GZIP	Source: zlib

The Mini-GZIP benchmark contains both 64-bit benchmark that measures the performance of an AMD64 optimized version of ZLIB. It also contains a 32-bit benchmark implemented with the standard (unmodified) ZLIB. Lower is better.

Mini-Gzip
System	Seconds	Ranking
CC Content Creator X2 32 Bit OS/32 Bit Software	7.968
CC Content Creator X2 64 Bit OS/32 Bit Software	8.031
CC Content Creator X2 64 Bit OS/64 Bit Software	3.437

Like with DiVX encoding, Mini-Gzip gets a huge performance boost when running the 64 bit software version but doesn't seem to perform the data compression any faster than the Athlon64 4000+ we tested earlier. This benchmark is obviously single threaded, something one should consider when going dual core.