zstdnooptimizations Intel Core i5-2500K testing with a Gigabyte Z77X-UD3H (F18 BIOS) and XFX AMD Radeon R7 370 / R9 270X/370X 2048MB on Solus 3.9999 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Intel Core i5-2500K: Processor: Intel Core i5-2500K @ 5.90GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte Z77X-UD3H (F18 BIOS), Chipset: Intel 2nd Generation Core Family DRAM, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 120GB Samsung SSD 840 + 250GB Samsung SSD 840 + 1000GB Seagate ST31000524AS + 8GB USB Flash, Graphics: XFX AMD Radeon R7 370 / R9 270X/370X 2048MB (1100MHz), Audio: VIA VT2020, Monitor: BenQ XL2430T, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 + Qualcomm Atheros AR9287 Wireless OS: Solus 3.9999, Kernel: 4.18.16-96.current (x86_64), Desktop: Budgie, Display Server: X Server 1.20.2, Display Driver: modesetting 1.20.2, OpenGL: 4.5 Mesa 18.2.3 (LLVM 6.0.1), Compiler: GCC 8.2.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Zstd Compression Compressing ubuntu-16.04.3-server-i386.img, Compression Level 19 Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Core i5-2500K . 46.52 |================================================ Intel Core i5-2500K . 48.72 |================================================== Intel Core i5-2500K . 46.55 |================================================ Intel Core i5-2500K . 47.35 |=================================================