Cinebench R20 benchmarking tool now available on the Microsoft Store

If you're into benchmarking your PCs, you can now catch the latest release of the pop Cinebench tool on the Microsoft Shop. It looks like Cinebench Release 20 first hit Microsoft's store for Windows 10 in March, but it flew a flake under the radar.

Cinebench Release 20 brings more complex and powerful tests for your figurer to handle. Compared to Cinebench Release 15, version 20 packs a "much larger and more complex test scene," requiring eight times the computational power and 4 times the memory to render information technology, according to its description. Other enhancements include:

Cinebench R20 and Cinema 4D R20 incorporate the latest rendering architectures, including integration of Intel'southward Embree raytracing engineering and advanced features on modern CPUs from AMD and Intel that let users to render the same scene on the same hardware twice equally fast as previously.

Cinebench R20 provides improved criterion accuracy for current and next generation CPUs to test if a car runs stable on a high CPU load, if the cooling solution of a desktop or notebook is sufficient for longer running tasks to deliver the full potential of the CPU, and if a machine is able to handle demanding real-life 3D tasks.

If you're interested in giving your PC a whirl with Cinebench Release 20, you can take hold of it now from the Microsoft Store.

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