compression1 AMD FX-9590 Eight-Core testing with a ASUS M5A99X EVO R2.0 and ASUS AMD Radeon HD 7700 2048MB on Arch Linux via the Phoronix Test Suite. FX-9590: Processor: AMD FX-9590 Eight-Core @ 4.70GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS M5A99X EVO R2.0, Chipset: AMD RD890 bridge, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 1000GB Seagate ST1000DM003-1ER1 + 120GB SSD2SC120G3LA726 + 4001GB Seagate ST4000DM000-1F21, Graphics: ASUS AMD Radeon HD 7700 2048MB, Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: CTX S760, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Arch Linux, Kernel: 4.2.5-1-ARCH (x86_64), Desktop: KDE Frameworks 5, Display Driver: fglrx 15.30.3, OpenGL: 2.1.2, Compiler: GCC 5.3.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2400x1920 7-Zip Compression 9.20.1 Compress Speed Test MIPS > Higher Is Better FX-9590 . 23961 |============================================================== Parallel BZIP2 Compression 1.1.6 256MB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better FX-9590 . 6.30 |=============================================================== Gzip Compression 2GB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better FX-9590 . 12.19 |============================================================== LZMA Compression 256MB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better FX-9590 . 130.59 |=============================================================