sbc-compression Intel Core i7-7700K testing with a ASUS Z170-A (3703 BIOS) and Intel HD 630 3072MB on Ubuntu 18.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Workstation: Processor: Intel Core i7-7700K @ 4.50GHz (4 Cores / 8 Threads), Motherboard: ASUS Z170-A (3703 BIOS), Chipset: Intel Intel Kaby Lake, Memory: 63488MB, Disk: 250GB Samsung SSD 840, Graphics: Intel HD 630 3072MB (1150MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: SyncMaster, Network: Intel Connection + Qualcomm Atheros AR5418 Wireless OS: Ubuntu 18.04, Kernel: 4.15.0-20-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.28.1, Display Driver: modesetting 1.19.6, OpenGL: 4.5 Mesa 18.0.0-rc5, Compiler: GCC 7.3.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 7-Zip Compression 16.02 Compress Speed Test MIPS > Higher Is Better Workstation . 28272 |========================================================== Parallel BZIP2 Compression 1.1.12 256MB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better Workstation . 7.52 |=========================================================== Gzip Compression Linux Source Tree Archiving To .tar.gz Seconds < Lower Is Better Workstation . 31.41 |========================================================== LZMA Compression 256MB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better Workstation . 236.07 |=========================================================