cld graphite lto compression AMD FX-8320 Eight-Core testing with a Gigabyte 990FXA-UD3 and AMD Radeon HD 5700 512MB on Gentoo via the Phoronix Test Suite. AMD FX-8320 Eight-Core: Processor: AMD FX-8320 Eight-Core @ 4.30GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte 990FXA-UD3, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 500GB Seagate ST3500418AS + 160GB Seagate ST3160815AS + 160GB SAMSUNG HD160JJ, Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 5700 512MB (850/1200MHz), Monitor: SyncMaster + SyncMaster OS: Gentoo, Kernel: 3.13.7-calculate (x86_64), Desktop: KDE 4.12.4, Display Server: X Server 1.14.5, Display Driver: fglrx 13.35.5, OpenGL: 4.3.12798, Compiler: GCC 4.8.2 + Clang 3.4 + LLVM 3.4, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1680x1050 7-Zip Compression 9.20.1 Compress Speed Test MIPS > Higher Is Better AMD FX-8320 Eight-Core . 19233 |=============================================== Parallel BZIP2 Compression 1.1.6 256MB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better AMD FX-8320 Eight-Core . 7.33 |================================================ Gzip Compression 2GB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better AMD FX-8320 Eight-Core . 10.50 |=============================================== LZMA Compression 256MB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better AMD FX-8320 Eight-Core . 140.26 |==============================================