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 Sempron 3600+ (Socket AM2)	55
AMD Athlon64 X2 4800+ (Socket AM2)	52
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 Sempron 3600+ (Socket AM2)	55
AMD Athlon64 X2 4800+ (Socket AM2)	33

With a single core engaged, the AMD Athlon64 X2 4800+ handles this test in 52 seconds. When both processing cores are utilized, the AMD Athlon64 X2 4800+ carries forth with a Maya Rendertest time of 33 seconds. It's much faster than the Intel Pentium D processor, but the Core 2 Duo E6600 takes the cake at just 12 seconds.

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 Sempron 3600+ (Socket AM2)	42
AMD Athlon64 X2 4800+ (Socket AM2)	37

The increase latency in the L2 cache makes itself apparent here and the Athlon64 X2 4800+ can't match the Athlon64 4000+ processor. SuperPi times are good, but nothing too special.