The quad core processors rule here in Cinebench and we don't see much of a difference between the dual core Phenom II and Athlon II more than likely due to L3 cache not being as important in rendering.

Valve map creation also doesn't show much of a bonus from the large L3 cache of the Phenom II and instead cores rule again.

Valve particle bench renders thousands of particles to test CPU performance and supports many cores and as such again those CPUs come out on top. We see a slight decline from the Phenom II to the Athlon X2 7850.

Pov-Ray is another rendering benchmark and again we see the L3 cache doesn't do much.