compression-suite Intel Core i7-5820K testing with a ASUS SABERTOOTH X99 (3402 BIOS) and AMD Radeon RX 56/64 8GB on Fedora 30 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Intel Core i7-5820K: Processor: Intel Core i7-5820K @ 4.60GHz (6 Cores / 12 Threads), Motherboard: ASUS SABERTOOTH X99 (3402 BIOS), Chipset: Intel Xeon E7 v3/Xeon, Memory: 32768MB, Disk: 3 x 500GB Western Digital WD5000AAKX-0 + 250GB CT250MX500SSD1 + 2000GB Seagate ST2000LM003 HN-M, Graphics: AMD Radeon RX 56/64 8GB (1630/945MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: XB321HK + 2 x HE225DPB, Network: Intel I218-V + Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Fedora 30, Kernel: 5.0.9-301.fc30.x86_64 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.32.2, Display Server: X Server + Wayland, OpenGL: 4.5 Mesa 19.0.4 (LLVM 8.0.0), Compiler: GCC 9.1.1 20190503, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 6000x2160 Parallel BZIP2 Compression 1.1.12 256MB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Core i7-5820K . 5.17 |=================================================== Gzip Compression Linux Source Tree Archiving To .tar.gz Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Core i7-5820K . 33.40 |================================================== XZ Compression 5.2.4 Compressing ubuntu-16.04.3-server-i386.img, Compression Level 9 Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Core i7-5820K . 36.13 |================================================== System BZIP2 Decompression Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Core i7-5820K . 9.36 |=================================================== System XZ Decompression Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Core i7-5820K . 3.42 |===================================================