gzip
Intel Core i7-3770K testing with a Gigabyte Z77X-UD3H and Intel Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd Gen Core on Ubuntu 13.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite.
HTML result view exported from: https://openbenchmarking.org/result/1309122-SO-GZIP7320209.
Gzip Compression
2GB File Compression
Phoronix Test Suite v10.8.4