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The Open Source Digital Content Creation Software Blender is among the most popular 3D-Modeling, -Animation, -Rendering, Video Editing & Compositing Solutions out there.
It is so popular, that in some of our own Surveys, Blender leads in the currently most used 3D Content Creation Softwares. If you are in the market for a high-performance Workstation, check our guide to building the best Blender PC.
It is no surprise then, that Blender has its own Benchmark, which too is extremely popular and widely used in determining the rendering performance of Processors and Graphics Cards.
The Blender Benchmark can render it’s scenes on either the CPU or multiple GPUs, depending on what you want to test.
The following list shows how CPUs score in the Blender Benchmark when running the “quick benchmark”:
Blender Benchmark Results
▮ = AMD | ▮ = Intel
| CPU Name | Cores | Ghz | Score (minutes) |
|---|---|---|---|
| AMD Threadripper 3970X | 32 | 3.7 | 04.24 |
| AMD Threadripper 3960X | 24 | 3.8 | 05.43 |
| AMD Threadripper 2990WX | 32 | 3.0 | 06.16 |
| AMD Threadripper 2970WX | 24 | 3.0 | 07.40 |
| AMD Ryzen 3950X | 16 | 3.5 | 08.17 |
| Intel i9 10980XE | 18 | 3.0 | 08.51 |
| AMD Threadripper 2950X | 16 | 3.5 | 10.32 |
| AMD Ryzen 9 3900X | 12 | 3.8 | 10.55 |
| AMD Threadripper 2920X | 12 | 3.5 | 13.02 |
| AMD Threadripper 1920X | 12 | 3.5 | 14.05 |
| Intel i9 9900X | 10 | 3.5 | 14.23 |
| Intel i9 7900X | 10 | 3.3 | 15.02 |
| AMD Ryzen 7 3800X | 8 | 3.9 | 15.30 |
| AMD Ryzen 7 3700X | 8 | 3.6 | 16.18 |
| Intel i9 9900K | 8 | 3.6 | 16.45 |
| Intel i9 9900KF | 8 | 3.6 | 16.45 |
| AMD Ryzen 7 2700X | 8 | 3.7 | 18.24 |
| AMD Ryzen 5 3600X | 6 | 3.8 | 21.01 |
| AMD Ryzen 7 1800X | 8 | 3.6 | 21.09 |
| AMD Ryzen 7 2700 | 8 | 3.2 | 21.10 |
| AMD Ryzen 5 3600 | 6 | 3.6 | 21.55 |
| Intel i7 8700K | 6 | 3.7 | 22.04 |
| AMD Ryzen 5 2600X | 6 | 3.6 | 24.27 |
| AMD Ryzen 5 2600 | 6 | 3.4 | 26.26 |
| AMD Ryzen 5 1600X | 6 | 3.3 | 27.12 |
| Intel i7 7700K | 4 | 4.2 | 32.48 |
| Intel i5 8400 | 6 | 2.8 | 35.18 |
| CPU Name | Cores | GHz | Score (minutes) |
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The Blender Benchmark can be downloaded for Windows, Mac and Linux here.
What Scores did you reach? Let us know in the comments!
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Hi Sir.. I’m confused with GPU.. Well I’m a very beginner in Blender and the Other Applications I use are.. Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve and After Effects.. I’m planning edit 4k contents but I would be happy with 1080p playback and lower timeline resolutions.. but I need 4k Export.. my budget is around 22K INR.. Which GPU should I buy,,?
My CPU is Ryzen 5 3600.. probably will upgrade when I need to..
RAM 32GB 3000mhz
Please help me out..!
Thanks in advance!
Hey Samrat,
I suggest going with an Nvidia GPU such as the MSI GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER Gaming X which should fit your budget nicely.
Cheers,
Alex
Thank you so much sir!
Just a quick question.. If I would go with RTX 2060 Super just because of 8GB VRAM would I able to notice much more performance? compare to GTX 1660 Super and the price!
Yes if you have the money for a rtx 2060 Super, that gpu would perform a lot better than the 1660 super. Can recommend 🙂
Cheers,
Alex
Thanks a lot! I’ll look for it then!
What is considered the “quick benchmark”? I don’t see any options other than to check on or off files to include.
Hey LavaJoe,
Sorry about that. Seems like Blender updated their Benchmark after releasing v2.8 of Blender. The Quick Benchmarking ability seems to have been removed. I’ll add new charts with the updated benchmark.
Cheers,
Alex
Thank you so much sir!
Just a quick question.. If I would go with RTX 2060 Super just because of 8GB VRAM would I able to notice much more performance? compare to GTX 1660 Super and the price!
2 Minutes 26 Seconds! First render on new build. AMD 3950X and RTX 2080 TI.
https://opendata.blender.org/benchmarks/c40ef124-03a9-4fc2-adb4-bd82202f02a7/
(edit: I am obviously a moron. Working on figuring out exact benchmark methods and will reply below.)
I haven’t located quick benchmark yet but here are the results of all benchmarks run only on the AMD 3950X.
https://opendata.blender.org/benchmarks/ed2a1dec-3653-4ada-ad97-b84ad3a23a9f/
I get that score with an Intel Quad-Core i5 3470 3.16Ghz with an AMD R5 240 1GB.
04:30.49 on an Intel Xeon E5-2697v2 server CPU
13:51:96 on my 1920x threadripper machine. Not great but not bad either!
10:29.48 On a 3900x at 4.25Ghz on all cores at 1.3V Temps maxed at 74C
HI,
We got 04m 13s on our Strongbox Node Gen3. Temperatures were pegged at 72C throughout.
https://opendata.blender.org/benchmark/39e2cb91-7255-4e36-b642-74acfe06092b
i got 1 hour and 29 min on an i3-8109U in an intel NUC.
kind of impressed that it was at 3.58-3.60 Ghz during the entire process.
Interesting! Seems to stay nice and cool even though its in an NUC.
3600X auto oc + pbo = 20:58
https://opendata.blender.org/benchmark/8a43009d-48eb-4adf-a70c-e0547e1a0a76
AM4 X470 3700X @ 4,2 allcore is round about 11min. i think its a good score?!
That’s a really good score! 🙂