Maxon has launched its Cinebench 2026 benchmark software, which uses the Redshift engine to test the latest hardware more accurately. According to Maxon, Cinebench 2026's multi-core CPU test is up to 6 times more demanding than the previous version. So the old Cinebench test scores are no longer comparable to the latest version.
Another improvement is the support for more hardware, especially the latest NVIDIA and AMD GPUs, including for NVIDIA Ampere Altra, Hopper, and Blackwell GPUs. Apple M4 and Apple M5 chips are also supported, but unfortunately there is still no support for Intel Arc GPUs. Native Windows on Arm support is also included.
The big change is that to use Cinebench 2026, the GPU must have at least 8GB of VRAM, while on Macs, at least 16GB of RAM is required on the system to run the test at the most optimal level.
Cinebench 2026 can be downloaded via the Maxon website and it supports Windows 10, Windows 11 and macOS 14.7 and above operating systems.
