compress Intel Core i5-2500K testing with a ASUS MAXIMUS IV GENE-Z/GEN3 and Gallium 0.4 on NVC8 1280MB on Gentoo 2.1 via the Phoronix Test Suite. compress1: Processor: Intel Core i5-2500K @ 3.30GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS MAXIMUS IV GENE-Z/GEN3, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 120GB OCZ VERTEX3 MI + 3001GB Hitachi HDS72303, Graphics: Gallium 0.4 on NVC8 1280MB (50/135MHz), Monitor: Acer S231HL OS: Gentoo 2.1, Kernel: 3.3.1-gentoo (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.2.2.1, Display Server: X Server 1.12.1, Display Driver: nouveau 0.0.16, OpenGL: 3.0 Mesa 8.0.2 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.6.3 + PathScale 4.0.12.1 + LLVM 3.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 7-Zip Compression 9.20.1 Compress Speed Test MIPS > Higher Is Better compress1 . 12781 |============================================================ Gzip Compression 2GB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better compress1 . 24.37 |============================================================ Parallel BZIP2 Compression 1.0.5 256MB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better compress1 . 14.06 |============================================================ LZMA Compression 256MB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better compress1 . 137.01 |===========================================================