compression_benchmak Intel Xeon E5-1620 v3 testing with a ASUS X99-M WS/SE and eVGA NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN X 12288MB on Ubuntu 14.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. vanilla: Processor: Intel Xeon E5-1620 v3 @ 3.60GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS X99-M WS/SE, Chipset: Intel Xeon E7 v3/Xeon, Memory: 32768MB, Disk: 500GB Samsung SSD 750 + 3001GB Western Digital WD30EZRZ-00Z, Graphics: eVGA NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN X 12288MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 14.04, Kernel: 4.4.0-34-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.2.6, Display Server: X Server 1.18.3, OpenGL: 4.3.0, Compiler: GCC 4.8 + CUDA 7.5, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 7-Zip Compression 9.20.1 Compress Speed Test MIPS > Higher Is Better vanilla . 18519 |============================================================== Parallel BZIP2 Compression 1.1.12 256MB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better vanilla . 10.37 |============================================================== Gzip Compression 2GB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better vanilla . 11.74 |============================================================== LZMA Compression 256MB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better vanilla . 289.30 |=============================================================