Benchmarking CPU using PovRay

Last year i had to benchmark different VIA EPIA motherboard for absolute performance. I found quite usefull to use PovRay to do the job. Its quite simple to use once installed:

time povray benchmark.pov

Where @benchmark.pov@ is a file usually distributed with PovRay that create a sample rendering job. You can also force PovRay to display additionals statistics about the job.