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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 on the market.
It is so popular, that in some of our own Surveys, Blender takes the lead as the currently most used 3D Content Creation Software – and all that while being free. 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 its 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 when running the bmw27 Scene Benchmark:
Blender CPU (BMW) Benchmark Results
▮ = AMD | ▮ = Intel – Lower is better
| CPU Name | Cores | Ghz | Score (minutes) |
|---|---|---|---|
| AMD Threadripper 3990X | 64 | 2.9 | 00.35 |
| AMD Threadripper 3970X | 32 | 3.7 | 00.51 |
| AMD Threadripper 3960X | 24 | 3.8 | 01.04 |
| AMD Threadripper 2990WX | 32 | 3.0 | 01.05 |
| AMD Ryzen 9 5950X | 16 | 3.4 | 01.26 |
| AMD Threadripper 2970WX | 24 | 3.0 | 01.28 |
| Intel i9 10980XE | 18 | 3.0 | 01.33 |
| AMD Ryzen 3950X | 16 | 3.5 | 01.34 |
| AMD Ryzen 9 5900X | 12 | 3.7 | 01.57 |
| AMD Threadripper 2950X | 16 | 3.5 | 02.04 |
| AMD Ryzen 9 3900X | 12 | 3.8 | 02.08 |
| Intel i9 10900k | 10 | 3.7 | 02.20 |
| AMD Threadripper 2920X | 12 | 3.5 | 02.24 |
| AMD Threadripper 1920X | 12 | 3.5 | 02.34 |
| Intel i9 9900X | 10 | 3.5 | 02.43 |
| AMD Ryzen 7 5800X | 8 | 3.8 | 02.47 |
| Intel i9 7900X | 10 | 3.3 | 02.52 |
| Intel i9 9900K | 8 | 3.6 | 02.59 |
| Intel i7 10700k | 8 | 3.8 | 02.59 |
| Intel i9 9900KF | 8 | 3.6 | 03.06 |
| AMD Ryzen 7 3800X | 8 | 3.9 | 03.07 |
| AMD Ryzen 7 3700X | 8 | 3.6 | 03.14 |
| AMD Ryzen 7 2700X | 8 | 3.7 | 03.42 |
| AMD Ryzen 5 5600X | 6 | 3.7 | 03.53 |
| AMD Ryzen 7 2700 | 8 | 3.2 | 03.54 |
| Intel i5 10600k | 6 | 4.1 | 03.55 |
| AMD Ryzen 7 1800X | 8 | 3.6 | 04.01 |
| AMD Ryzen 5 3600X | 6 | 3.8 | 04.10 |
| Intel i7 8700K | 6 | 3.7 | 04.14 |
| AMD Ryzen 5 3600 | 6 | 3.6 | 04.16 |
| AMD Ryzen 5 2600X | 6 | 3.6 | 04.51 |
| AMD Ryzen 5 2600 | 6 | 3.4 | 05.01 |
| AMD Ryzen 5 1600X | 6 | 3.3 | 05.05 |
| Intel i7 7700K | 4 | 4.2 | 06.17 |
| Intel i5 8400 | 6 | 2.8 | 07.14 |
| CPU Name | Cores | GHz | Score (minutes) |
Blender’s CPU Render Benchmark test is based on one of Blender’s in-built Render Engines, “Cycles”. The list above shows the CPU Ranking when rendering the first and most popular benchmark Scene “bmw27”. The reason this scene is used most often is that rendering the entire benchmark suite with all scenes takes quite a while. Too long for many.
You’ll find the BMW Scene completes after just a couple of minutes on most modern CPUs.
Blender GPU (BMW) Benchmark Results (OptiX)
Lower is better.
| Graphics Card | VRAM | Price / MSRP | Score (seconds) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nvidia GTX 1060 | 6 | 250 | 167 |
| Nvidia GTX 1070 | 8 | 350 | 108 |
| Nvidia GTX 1650 SUPER | 4 | 170 | 96 |
| Nvidia GTX 1070 Ti | 8 | 400 | 91 |
| Nvidia GTX 1080 | 8 | 500 | 88 |
| Nvidia GTX 1660 | 6 | 210 | 82 |
| Nvidia GTX 1660 SUPER | 6 | 250 | 78 |
| Nvidia GTX 1660 Ti | 6 | 300 | 75 |
| Nvidia GTX 1080 Ti | 11 | 700 | 61 |
| Nvidia RTX 2060 | 6 | 350 | 36 |
| Nvidia RTX 2060 SUPER | 8 | 420 | 31 |
| Nvidia RTX 2070 | 8 | 450 | 31 |
| Nvidia RTX 2080 | 8 | 799 | 26 |
| Nvidia RTX 2070 SUPER | 8 | 520 | 26 |
| Nvidia RTX 2080 SUPER | 8 | 750 | 25 |
| Nvidia RTX 2080 Ti | 11 | 1199 | 19 |
| Nvidia RTX 3060 Ti | 8 | 399 | 18 |
| Nvidia RTX 3070 | 8 | 499 | 16 |
| Nvidia RTX 3080 | 10 | 699 | 11 |
| Nvidia RTX 3090 | 24 | 1499 | 10 |
| Graphics Card | Performance / Dollar | Price / MSRP | Score (seconds) |
Nvidia RTX GPUs support OptiX which is an SDK that accelerates rendering through the use of raytracing cores. GTX GPUs don’t have RT Cores, so these score considerably lower in this GPU Benchmark.
The combination of a high number of CUDA-Cores, OptiX support, and (if your scenes are complex) a large VRAM pool, grants the highest render performance in Blender’s Cycles Render Engine.
Download Blender Benchmark
The Blender Benchmark can be downloaded for Windows, Mac, and Linux here.
What Scores did you reach? Let us know in the comments!
Hi which blender version is being used? Is this already using the Cycles X from blender 3.0?
Hi Lucas,
No, not yet, will update this with Cycles X Scores soon, though!
Cheers,
Alex
I have tested it also.
My results are spot-on with your results. My CPU and GPU time is exactly what you have benched.
A baking benchmark would have been more appropriate for the CPU comparison…
Hey Ixoneo,
Thanks for your input! What kind of Baking Bench would you like to see? Keyframe baking, fluid baking, physics baking, texture baking, or something else entirely?
Thanks,
Alex
I don’t understand this CPU benchmark at all. The time You have achived is summary of all the 6 benchmarks or what?
We’ve made the chart more clear now. It shows only the time it takes to render the bmw scene.
Cheers,
Alex
I got a render time of 3:03.66 minutes with an i7-10700K. Why is it so much lower than most? I have a feeling I’m doing something wrong or it’s just that my processor is newer?