Maxon releases Cinebench R20 - New Instructions, New Scoring, No More GPU Test

Fouquin · March 11, 2019, 4:15pm

Guru3D received legal threats from Maxon to take down their download hosting of Cinebench R20 portable. Facing these threats, Guru3D took down their download and amended their news articles with links to the Microsoft DRM store. The e-mail we received politely asked us to remove the “unauthorized download” but did include a threat that the company “reserves the next legal steps.” We believe this behavior by Maxon is unfair, and will alienate a section of PC enthusiasts form Cinebench. No record-seeking PC enthusiast with an LN2 bench painstakingly set up has time to plug their machine to the Internet, launch the UWP store, evade attempts to get them to log in with a Microsoft account, and fetch Cinebench R20 with versions they have no control over. They’d rather install and run their benchmarks and tools off a flash drive, with control over versions, and the ability to keep their machines offline to stabilize their overclock. Many others simply hate DRM platforms for freeware. TechPowerUp has since taken down Cinebench R20 portable from its Downloads section. You can find it on Microsoft UWP Store.

dsdhfhd · March 11, 2019, 5:57pm

“TechPowerUp has since taken down Cinebench R20 portable from its Downloads section. You can find it on Microsoft UWP Store.”

They still have one up, but they call it a “standalone” version. How’s that any different?

MazeFrame · March 11, 2019, 6:40pm

I don´t want Cinebench R20 anymore. Fuck Maxxon.

Edit:

There ain’t no MS-Store on Win7…

Fouquin · March 11, 2019, 7:21pm

There’s an archive of the standalone version in the benchmark thread regardless of what happens to the one on TPU. (Or anywhere else.)