master-compression Intel Xeon W3520 testing with a Supermicro X8STi v2.0 and Matrox s MGA G200eW WPCM450 on Debian 8.7 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Intel Xeon W3520: Processor: Intel Xeon W3520 @ 2.67GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Supermicro X8STi v2.0, Chipset: Intel 5520/5500/X58 + ICH10R, Memory: 4 x 8192 MB 1333MHz, Disk: 2 x 2000GB HGST HUS724020AL, Graphics: Matrox s MGA G200eW WPCM450, Network: Intel 82574L Gigabit Connection OS: Debian 8.7, Kernel: 4.4.40-1-pve (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.9.2, File-System: zfs 7-Zip Compression 9.20.1 Compress Speed Test MIPS > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon W3520 . 12599 |===================================================== Parallel BZIP2 Compression 1.1.12 256MB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Xeon W3520 . 15.37 |===================================================== Gzip Compression 2GB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Xeon W3520 . 18.86 |===================================================== LZMA Compression 256MB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Xeon W3520 . 457.87 |====================================================