Compression Intel Core i7-4790 testing with a ASUS H97-PRO and ASUS NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 on Arch rolling via the Phoronix Test Suite. Intel Core i7-4790: Processor: Intel Core i7-4790 @ 4.00GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS H97-PRO, Chipset: Intel 4th Gen Core DRAM, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 250GB Samsung SSD 850 + 2000GB Western Digital WD20EZRZ-00Z, Graphics: ASUS NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970, Audio: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th, Network: Intel Connection OS: Arch rolling, Kernel: 4.11.9-ck (x86_64), Vulkan: 1.0.24, File-System: btrfs, Screen Resolution: 1024x768 7-Zip Compression 9.20.1 Compress Speed Test MIPS > Higher Is Better Intel Core i7-4790 . 22640 |=================================================== Parallel BZIP2 Compression 1.1.12 256MB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Core i7-4790 . 10.33 |=================================================== Gzip Compression 2GB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Core i7-4790 . 10.34 |=================================================== LZMA Compression 256MB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Core i7-4790 . 256.85 |==================================================