7-Zip Compression

This is a test of 7-Zip compression/decompression with its integrated benchmark feature.

To run this test with the Phoronix Test Suite, the basic command is: phoronix-test-suite benchmark compress-7zip.

Project Site

7-zip.org

Test Created

6 December 2010

Last Updated

14 May 2024

Test Maintainer

Michael Larabel

Test Type

Processor

Average Install Time

26 Seconds

Average Run Time

5 Minutes, 24 Seconds

Test Dependencies

C/C++ Compiler Toolchain + 7-Zip / p7zip

Accolades

300k+ Downloads + 30k+ Public Benchmark Results

Supported Platforms

* Uploading of benchmark result data to OpenBenchmarking.org is always optional (opt-in) via the Phoronix Test Suite for users wishing to share their results publicly.
** Data based on those opting to upload their test results to OpenBenchmarking.org and users enabling the opt-in anonymous statistics reporting while running benchmarks from an Internet-connected platform.
*** Test profile page view reporting began March 2021.
Data updated weekly as of 14 June 2024.

Revision History

pts/compress-7zip-1.11.0 [View Source] Tue, 14 May 2024 19:57:58 GMT
Update against 7-Zip 24.05 upstream.

pts/compress-7zip-1.10.0 [View Source] Wed, 31 Aug 2022 12:44:34 GMT
Update against 7-Zip 22.01 to address GCC 12 build issue with prior version.

pts/compress-7zip-1.9.0 [View Source] Sun, 19 Jun 2022 12:57:42 GMT
Update against upstream 7-Zip 22.00.

pts/compress-7zip-1.8.0 [View Source] Thu, 25 Nov 2021 16:35:13 GMT
Update against 7-Zip 21.06 upstream now that the 21.06 release has sources available and seems to be building nicely on Linux. Closes: https://github.com/phoronix-test-suite/test-profiles/issues/213

pts/compress-7zip-1.7.1 [View Source] Fri, 08 May 2020 19:39:52 GMT
Update download links, include build fix for newer compilers: https://github.com/phoronix-test-suite/test-profiles/issues/142

pts/compress-7zip-1.7.0 [View Source] Wed, 28 Feb 2018 14:07:14 GMT
Update against upstream 7-Zip 16.02, add Windows support.

pts/compress-7zip-1.6.2 [View Source] Wed, 07 Sep 2016 12:00:29 GMT
Update download links

pts/compress-7zip-1.6.1 [View Source] Thu, 08 Oct 2015 16:51:13 GMT
Update download URLs

pts/compress-7zip-1.6.0 [View Source] Wed, 07 Dec 2011 11:32:20 GMT
Update against upstream p7zip 9.20.1

pts/compress-7zip-1.5.0 [View Source] Mon, 06 Dec 2010 14:36:39 GMT
Initial import into OpenBenchmarking.org

Suites Using This Test

Compression Tests

C/C++ Compiler Tests

Multi-Core

CPU Massive

Server CPU Tests

Performance Metrics

Analyze Test Configuration:

7-Zip Compression 24.05

Test: Compression Rating

OpenBenchmarking.org metrics for this test profile configuration based on 335 public results since 14 May 2024 with the latest data as of 16 June 2024.

Below is an overview of the generalized performance for components where there is sufficient statistically significant data based upon user-uploaded results. It is important to keep in mind particularly in the Linux/open-source space there can be vastly different OS configurations, with this overview intended to offer just general guidance as to the performance expectations.

Component

Percentile Rank

# Compatible Public Results

MIPS (Average)

2 x AMD EPYC 9754 128-Core

100th

799824 ^{+/- 14181}

2 x INTEL XEON PLATINUM 8592

98th

720194 ^{+/- 11211}

2 x Intel Xeon 6780E

97th

627283 ^{+/- 4110}

2 x Intel Xeon 6766E

95th

614778 ^{+/- 543}

Intel Xeon 6780E

92nd

464546 ^{+/- 463}

INTEL XEON PLATINUM 8592

90th

454943 ^{+/- 237}

Intel Xeon 6766E

89th

443674 ^{+/- 132}

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7980X 64-Cores

87th

358953 ^{+/- 4953}

AMD EPYC 8534PN 64-Core

84th

330298 ^{+/- 88}

ARMv8 Neoverse-N1 128-Core

83rd

323980 ^{+/- 2557}

2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6444Y

81st

299970 ^{+/- 1645}

Intel Xeon Gold 6414U

79th

222671 ^{+/- 251}

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3970X 32-Core

78th

207845 ^{+/- 1575}

AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D 16-Core

76th

183813 ^{+/- 13350}

Mid-Tier

75th

< 182143

Intel Core i9-14900K

75th

182055 ^{+/- 377}

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X 64-Core

73rd

178904 ^{+/- 232}

AMD EPYC 4584PX 16-Core

71st

177235 ^{+/- 1302}

AMD Ryzen 9 7950X 16-Core

69th

175415 ^{+/- 9283}

AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 16-Core

64th

143186 ^{+/- 3672}

AMD EPYC 4464P 12-Core

61st

140358 ^{+/- 497}

AMD Ryzen 9 7900 12-Core

60th

140037 ^{+/- 3941}

Intel Core i9-10980XE

56th

118876 ^{+/- 1024}

AMD EPYC 7551 32-Core

55th

115838 ^{+/- 4160}

AMD Ryzen 9 5900X 12-Core

55th

113315 ^{+/- 11661}

Intel Core i5-14500

53rd

108847 ^{+/- 532}

Intel Xeon E E-2488

51st

97875 ^{+/- 441}

Median

50th

96425

Intel Xeon Silver 4216

50th

91648 ^{+/- 575}

Intel Core i5-14400F

49th

88955

AMD Ryzen 7 5700G

47th

83569 ^{+/- 748}

AMD Ryzen 7 7840HS

44th

80229 ^{+/- 4381}

AMD Ryzen 5 8400F 6-Core

44th

80225 ^{+/- 125}

AMD Ryzen 7 7840U

41st

76878 ^{+/- 3224}

Intel Core Ultra 7 155H

40th

76282 ^{+/- 4020}

Intel Core i7-1280P

37th

67374 ^{+/- 4796}

AMD EPYC 7F32 8-Core

37th

66958 ^{+/- 1210}

AMD EPYC 4124P 4-Core

33rd

57038 ^{+/- 457}

AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 6850U

31st

55034 ^{+/- 685}

AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX

30th

53689 ^{+/- 99}

AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U

27th

49385 ^{+/- 36}

Low-Tier

25th

< 46185

Intel Core i7-9750H

24th

38459 ^{+/- 2973}

AMD Ryzen 7 4700U

23rd

35840 ^{+/- 269}

Intel Core i7-1185G7

19th

29680 ^{+/- 349}

Intel Core i7-8565U

17th

25561 ^{+/- 407}

ARMv8 Cortex-A77 6-Core

12th

15668 ^{+/- 1799}

Based on OpenBenchmarking.org data, the selected test / test configuration (7-Zip Compression 24.05 - Test: Compression Rating) has an average run-time of 4 minutes. By default this test profile is set to run at least 3 times but may increase if the standard deviation exceeds pre-defined defaults or other calculations deem additional runs necessary for greater statistical accuracy of the result.

Based on public OpenBenchmarking.org results, the selected test / test configuration has an average standard deviation of 0.4%.

Notable Instruction Set Usage

Notable instruction set extensions supported by this test, based on an automatic analysis by the Phoronix Test Suite / OpenBenchmarking.org analytics engine.

Instruction Set

Support

Instructions Detected

SSE2 (SSE2)

Used by default on supported hardware.

MOVDQA PADDQ MOVDQU PUNPCKHQDQ PUNPCKLQDQ MOVD PSHUFD CVTSI2SD DIVSD MULSD COMISD SUBSD CVTTSD2SI

SSSE3 (SSSE3)

Used by default on supported hardware.

PSHUFB PALIGNR

Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX)

Used by default on supported hardware.
Found on Intel processors since Sandy Bridge (2011).
Found on AMD processors since Bulldozer (2011).

VZEROUPPER

Advanced Vector Extensions 2 (AVX2)

Used by default on supported hardware.
Found on Intel processors since Haswell (2013).
Found on AMD processors since Excavator (2016).

VINSERTI128 VEXTRACTI128 VPERM2I128 VPBROADCASTD

Advanced Encryption Standard (AES)

Used by default on supported hardware.
Found on Intel processors since at least 2010.
Found on AMD processors since Bulldozer (2011).

AESENC AESENCLAST AESDEC AESDECLAST

Vector AES (VAES)

Used by default on supported hardware.
Found on Intel processors since Ice Lake (2019).
Found on AMD processors since Zen 3 (2020).

VAESDEC VAESDECLAST VAESENC VAESENCLAST

Last automated analysis: 6 June 2024

This test profile binary relies on the shared libraries libc.so.6, libm.so.6.

Tested CPU Architectures

This benchmark has been successfully tested on the below mentioned architectures. The CPU architectures listed is where successful OpenBenchmarking.org result uploads occurred, namely for helping to determine if a given test is compatible with various alternative CPU architectures.

CPU Architecture

Kernel Identifier

Verified On

Intel / AMD x86 64-bit

x86_64

(Many Processors)

ARMv8 64-bit

aarch64

ARMv8 Cortex-A77 6-Core, ARMv8 Neoverse-N1 128-Core

7-zip test2 1 System - 2 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i5-10210U - BANGHO MAX L5 - 1 x 8192MB 2667MHz Kingston Microsoft Windows 11 Home Single Language Build 22631 - 10.0.22631.3593 - 30.0.101.1340
7zip2 1 System - 2 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 9 7950X 16-Core - ASUS ROG STRIX X670E-I GAMING WIFI - AMD Device 14d8 Ubuntu 23.10 - 6.5.0-41-generic - GNOME Shell 45.2
7-zip-result 1 System - 2 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i5-1135G7 - (0.0.0 BIOS) - 1 x 8192MB 0MHz QEMU Microsoft Windows Server 2022 Standard Evaluation Build 20348 - 10.0.20348.587 - 100.94.104.24800
qw 1 System - 2 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i9-12900H - ASUS GU603ZW v1.0 - Intel Alder Lake PCH Ubuntu 24.04 - 6.8.0-31-generic - GNOME Shell 46.0
7zip 1 System - 2 Benchmark Results	2 x AMD EPYC 7763 64-Core - Supermicro Super Server H12DSi-NT6 v1.02 - AMD Starship Ubuntu 24.04 - 6.8.0-35-generic - GNOME Shell 46.0
cpu-test 1 System - 2 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i7-9750H - CFL Covini_CFS - Intel Cannon Lake PCH Debian 12 - 6.1.0-21-amd64 - GNOME Shell 43.9
2024-06-06-2053 1 System - 27 Benchmark Results	2 x AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX - Intel 440BX - 1 x 16384 MB 4800MHz VMW-16384MB Microsoft Windows 11 Pro Build 22631 - 10.0.22631.3593 - 9.17.4.2
2024-06-06-1903 1 System - 29 Benchmark Results	2 x AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX - Intel 440BX - 1 x 16384 MB 4800MHz VMW-16384MB Microsoft Windows 11 Pro Build 22631 - 10.0.22631.3593 - 9.17.4.2
june juny 3 Systems - 91 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i9-10980XE - ASRock X299 Steel Legend - Intel Sky Lake-E DMI3 Registers Ubuntu 22.04 - 6.5.0-26-generic - GNOME Shell 42.2
2024-06-06-1209 1 System - 2 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX - ASUS GX650RS - 2 x 32768 MB 4800MHz Samsung M425R4GA3BB0-CQKOD Microsoft Windows 11 Home Build 22631 - 10.0.22631.3593 - 531.68
wsl 1 System - 2 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 9 3900XT 12-Core - 16GB - 0GB Virtual Disk + 4GB Virtual Disk + 1100GB Virtual Disk Ubuntu 22.04 - 5.15.146.1-microsoft-standard-WSL2 - Wayland
batch-2 2 Systems - 70 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 16-Core - AMD Starship - 64GB Debian - 6.9.3-sven - Xfce
AMD Ryzen 9 5900X 2 Systems - 2 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 9 5900X 12-Core - ASUS PRIME B350M-A - AMD Starship Fedora 39 - 6.8.11-200.fc39.x86_64 - GNOME Shell 45.7
AMD Ryzen 9 5900X 1 System - 2 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 9 5900X 12-Core - ASUS PRIME B350M-A - AMD Starship Fedora 39 - 6.8.11-200.fc39.x86_64 - GNOME Shell 45.7
7ziparch05062024 1 System - 2 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i7-6700K - MSI Z170A GAMING M5 - Intel Xeon E3-1200 v5 Arch rolling - 6.9.3-zen1-1-zen - KDE Plasma 6.0.5

new tests 2 Systems - 49 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7980X 64-Cores - System76 Thelio Major - AMD Device 14a4 Fedora Linux 40 - 6.8.5-301.fc40.x86_64 - GNOME Shell 46.1
7z tr 4 Systems - 2 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X 64-Core - Gigabyte TRX40 AORUS PRO WIFI - AMD Starship Pop 22.04 - 6.8.0-76060800daily20240311-generic - GNOME Shell 42.5
system performance assessment results 14 Systems - 19 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i5-11260H - Oracle VirtualBox v1.2 - Intel 440FX 82441FX PMC Ubuntu 22.04 - 5.15.0-47-generic - GNOME Shell 42.4
new tests 2 Systems - 49 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7980X 64-Cores - System76 Thelio Major - AMD Device 14a4 Fedora Linux 40 - 6.8.5-301.fc40.x86_64 - GNOME Shell 46.1
cpu-results 9 Systems - 18 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i5-11260H - Oracle VirtualBox v1.2 - Intel 440FX 82441FX PMC Ubuntu 22.04 - 5.15.0-47-generic - GNOME Shell 42.4
cray 3 Systems - 5 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 7 7840U - Framework Laptop 13 - AMD Device 14e8 Ubuntu 22.04 - 6.5.0-35-generic - GNOME Shell 42.9
sss Featured Graphics Comparison	AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX - ASUS ROG Strix G513QY_G513QY G513QY v1.0 - AMD Renoir Ubuntu 22.10 - 5.19.0-46-generic - GNOME Shell 43.0
7z 3 Systems - 2 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i5-14500 - ASUS PRIME Z790-P WIFI - Intel Raptor Lake-S PCH Ubuntu 24.04 - 6.8.0-31-generic - GNOME Shell 46.0
7zip 3 Systems - 2 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 5 8400F 6-Core - ASRock B650 Pro RS - AMD Device 14e8 Ubuntu 24.04 - 6.8.0-31-generic - GNOME Shell 46.0
4124p tests 3 Systems - 4 Benchmark Results	AMD EPYC 4124P 4-Core - Supermicro AS-3015A-I H13SAE-MF v1.00 - AMD Device 14d8 Ubuntu 24.04 - 6.8.0-11-generic - GNOME Shell 45.3
ddd 3 Systems - 74 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i7-8565U - Dell XPS 13 9380 0KTW76 - Intel Cannon Point-LP Ubuntu 23.10 - 6.7.0-060700rc5-generic - GNOME Shell 45.1
Intel Xeon 6 Benchmarks Smoke Run 10 Systems - 38 Benchmark Results	2 x Intel Xeon 6766E - Quanta Cloud QuantaGrid D55Q-2U S7Q-MB-MPS-MDP - Intel Ice Lake IEH Ubuntu 24.04 - 6.9.0-060900rc3-generic - GCC 13.2.0
dddgdjda 3 Systems - 64 Benchmark Results	AMD EPYC 7F32 8-Core - ASRockRack EPYCD8 - AMD Starship Debian 12 - 6.1.0-11-amd64 - X Server
ryzen7900 2 Systems - 15 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 9 7900 12-Core - MSI MAG X670E TOMAHAWK WIFI - 2 x 32768MB 6000MHz CMH64GX5M2B6000Z30 Microsoft Windows 11 Pro Build 22631 - 10.0.22631.3593 - 555.85
Gandalf80Tests 2 Systems - 27 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D 16-Core - ASUS ROG STRIX X670E-F GAMING WIFI - 2 x 32768 MB 6400MHz AX5U6400C3232G-BLABK Microsoft Windows 11 Pro Build 22631 - 10.0.22631.3593 - 555.85