Maya Render Test	Source: Maya-Test Center

Because of different displacement algorithms and continuous improvements of the renderer, Maya 6 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). Lower times are better.

Maya - RenderTest
1 CPU	Seconds	Ranking
Intel Pentium D 840	61
AMD Athlon64 X2 4800+	46
AMD Athlon64 FX-60	43
AMD Athlon64 FX-60 @ 2.88 GHz	41
2 CPU	Seconds	Ranking
Intel Pentium D 840	40
AMD Athlon64 X2 4800+	28
AMD Athlon64 FX-60	23
AMD Athlon64 FX-60 @ 2.88 GHz	22

In Maya RenderTest where lower times are best, the dual core AMD Athlon64 FX-60 and X2 4800+ processors completely dominate the dual core Intel Pentium D 840. Between the AMD Athlon64 X2 4800+ and FX-60, things are pretty close. Overclocking shaves a second or two off of the FX-60's stock times, which are certainly nice to begin with.

Super Pi	Source: SuperPI

SuperPI calculates the number PI to 1 Million digits in this raw number crunching benchmark. The benchmark is fairly diverse and allows the user to change the number of digits of PI that can be calculated from 16 Thousand to 32 Million. The benchmark, which uses 19 iterations in the test, is set 1 Million digits.

Lower numbers denote faster calculation times (seconds), and hence, better performance.

SuperPi
1 Million Digits:	Points	Ranking
Intel Pentium D 840	39
AMD Athlon64 X2 4800+	35
AMD Athlon64 FX-60	32
AMD Athlon64 FX-60 @ 2.88 GHz	30
Hexus piFast:	Points	Ranking
Intel Pentium D 840	66.31
AMD Athlon64 X2 4800+	49.98
AMD Athlon64 FX-60	46.38
AMD Athlon64 FX-60 @ 2.88 GHz	42.16

Looking at the SuperPi results, the dual core AMD Athlon64 FX-60 processor posts the quickest times. Overclocking shaves a couple more seconds off what is already a really fast result. The dual core Intel Pentium D 840 ends up being about 30% slower than the stock FX-60 in the Hexus PiFast test.