Maya 8 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 Core 2 Duo E6600	25
Intel Pentium D 940	60
Intel Pentium D 840	61
AMD Athlon64 FX-60 (Socket 939)	43
AMD Athlon64 4000+ (Socket 939)	47
AMD Athlon64 FX-62 (Socket AM2)	40
AMD Athlon64 X2 5000+ (Socket AM2)	45
AMD Athlon64 X2 4800+ (Socket AM2)	52
AMD Sempron 3600+ (Socket AM2)	55
Intel Core 2 Duo E6750 (nVIDIA nForce 650i DDR2 memory)	22
Intel Core 2 Duo E6750 (Intel P35 Express DDR2 memory)	22
Intel Core 2 Duo E6750 (Intel P35 Express DDR3 memory)	23
2 CPU	Seconds	Ranking
Intel Core 2 Duo E6600	12
Intel Pentium D 940	38
Intel Pentium D 840	40
AMD Athlon64 FX-60 (Socket 939)	23
AMD Athlon64 4000+ (Socket 939)	47
AMD Athlon64 FX-62 (Socket AM2)	19
AMD Athlon64 X2 5000+ (Socket AM2)	26
AMD Athlon64 X2 4800+ (Socket AM2)	33
AMD Sempron 3600+ (Socket AM2)	55
Intel Core 2 Duo E6750 (nVIDIA nForce 650i DDR2 memory)	10
Intel Core 2 Duo E6750 (Intel P35 Express DDR2 memory)	10
Intel Core 2 Duo E6750 (Intel P35 Express DDR3 memory)	10

Maya render test illustrates what a dual core processor can accomplish given a multi-tasking application. With just one core of the E6750 CPU tasked to the benchmark we see rendering times of 22 seconds. If both cores are loaded by Maya's render test, rendering time reduced to a scant 10 seconds. Of all the CPUs PCSTATS has tested, the Intel Core 2 Duo E6750 completes this rendering test the quickest!

Super Pi Mod 1.5	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:	Seconds	Ranking
Intel Core 2 Duo E6600	21
Intel Pentium D 940	40
Intel Pentium D 840	39
AMD Athlon64 FX-60 (Socket 939)	32
AMD Athlon64 4000+ (Socket 939)	35
AMD Athlon64 FX-62 (Socket AM2)	31
AMD Athlon64 X2 5000+ (Socket AM2)	34
AMD Athlon64 X2 4800+ (Socket AM2)	37
AMD Sempron 3600+ (Socket AM2)	42
Intel Core 2 Duo E6750 (nVIDIA nForce 650i DDR2 memory)	18
Intel Core 2 Duo E6750 (Intel P35 Express DDR2 memory)	18
Intel Core 2 Duo E6750 (Intel P35 Express DDR3 memory)	19

Super Pi does not benefit from two processing cores, but as you can see that's not really necessary. The Intel Core 2 Duo E6750 is able to calculate Pi to 1 million digits in just 18 seconds, sweet! DDR3 has higher latencies which is why the Core 2 Duo E6750 is actually slightly slower on that platform.