Zstd compression Intel Core i9-7980XE testing with a ASUS PRIME X299-A (1401 BIOS) and AMD Radeon RX Vega 8192MB on Ubuntu 18.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Zstd 1.3.4: Processor: Intel Core i9-7980XE @ 4.40GHz (18 Cores / 36 Threads), Motherboard: ASUS PRIME X299-A (1401 BIOS), Chipset: Intel Sky Lake-E DMI3 Registers, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 256GB INTEL SSDPEKKW256G8 + Samsung SSD 970 EVO 250GB, Graphics: AMD Radeon RX Vega 8192MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1220, Monitor: Acer B286HK, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 18.04, Kernel: 4.17.3-041703-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.28.1, Display Server: X Server 1.19.6, Display Driver: modesetting 1.19.6, OpenGL: 4.5 Mesa 18.1.1- padoka PPA (LLVM 6.0.0), Compiler: GCC 7.3.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 Zstd 1.3.5: Processor: Intel Core i9-7980XE @ 4.40GHz (18 Cores / 36 Threads), Motherboard: ASUS PRIME X299-A (1401 BIOS), Chipset: Intel Sky Lake-E DMI3 Registers, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 256GB INTEL SSDPEKKW256G8 + Samsung SSD 970 EVO 250GB, Graphics: AMD Radeon RX Vega 8192MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1220, Monitor: Acer B286HK, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 18.04, Kernel: 4.17.3-041703-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.28.1, Display Server: X Server 1.19.6, Display Driver: modesetting 1.19.6, OpenGL: 4.5 Mesa 18.1.1- padoka PPA (LLVM 6.0.0), Compiler: GCC 7.3.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 Zstd Compression Compression Level: 5 Seconds < Lower Is Better Zstd 1.3.4 . 2.73 |======================================================== Zstd 1.3.5 . 2.95 |============================================================ Zstd Compression Compression Level: 6 Seconds < Lower Is Better Zstd 1.3.4 . 3.01 |======================================================= Zstd 1.3.5 . 3.28 |============================================================ Zstd Compression Compression Level: 7 Seconds < Lower Is Better Zstd 1.3.4 . 3.16 |============================================================ Zstd 1.3.5 . 3.12 |=========================================================== Zstd Compression Compression Level: 8 Seconds < Lower Is Better Zstd 1.3.4 . 3.28 |======================================================= Zstd 1.3.5 . 3.56 |============================================================ Zstd Compression Compression Level: 9 Seconds < Lower Is Better Zstd 1.3.4 . 3.38 |============================================================ Zstd 1.3.5 . 3.32 |=========================================================== Zstd Compression Compression Level: 10 Seconds < Lower Is Better Zstd 1.3.4 . 3.72 |====================================================== Zstd 1.3.5 . 4.14 |============================================================ Zstd Compression Compression Level: 11 Seconds < Lower Is Better Zstd 1.3.4 . 5.90 |========================================================== Zstd 1.3.5 . 6.09 |============================================================ Zstd Compression Compression Level: 12 Seconds < Lower Is Better Zstd 1.3.4 . 6.04 |============================================================ Zstd 1.3.5 . 5.80 |========================================================== Zstd Compression Compression Level: 13 Seconds < Lower Is Better Zstd 1.3.4 . 7.91 |============================================================ Zstd 1.3.5 . 7.93 |============================================================ Zstd Compression Compression Level: 14 Seconds < Lower Is Better Zstd 1.3.4 . 8.05 |============================================================ Zstd 1.3.5 . 7.85 |=========================================================== Zstd Compression Compression Level: 15 Seconds < Lower Is Better Zstd 1.3.4 . 8.46 |============================================================ Zstd 1.3.5 . 8.45 |============================================================ Zstd Compression Compression Level: 16 Seconds < Lower Is Better Zstd 1.3.4 . 46.30 |=========================================================== Zstd 1.3.5 . 44.41 |========================================================= Zstd Compression Compression Level: 17 Seconds < Lower Is Better Zstd 1.3.4 . 74.06 |=========================================================== Zstd 1.3.5 . 72.67 |========================================================== Zstd Compression Compression Level: 18 Seconds < Lower Is Better Zstd 1.3.4 . 84.76 |================================================ Zstd 1.3.5 . 101.98 |========================================================== Zstd Compression Compression Level: 19 Seconds < Lower Is Better Zstd 1.3.4 . 106.75 |================================================= Zstd 1.3.5 . 125.67 |==========================================================