5960x pbzip2 Intel Core i7-5960X testing with a Gigabyte X99-UD4-CF (F24c BIOS) and NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT on Debian 11 via the Phoronix Test Suite. A: Processor: Intel Core i7-5960X @ 3.50GHz (8 Cores / 16 Threads), Motherboard: Gigabyte X99-UD4-CF (F24c BIOS), Chipset: Intel Xeon E7 v3/Xeon, Memory: 32GB, Disk: 120GB INTEL SSDSC2BW12, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Network: Intel I218-V OS: Debian 11, Kernel: 5.10.0-10-amd64 (x86_64), Vulkan: 1.0.2, Compiler: GCC 10.2.1 20210110, File-System: ext4 B: Processor: Intel Core i7-5960X @ 3.50GHz (8 Cores / 16 Threads), Motherboard: Gigabyte X99-UD4-CF (F24c BIOS), Chipset: Intel Xeon E7 v3/Xeon, Memory: 32GB, Disk: 120GB INTEL SSDSC2BW12, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Network: Intel I218-V OS: Debian 11, Kernel: 5.10.0-10-amd64 (x86_64), Vulkan: 1.0.2, Compiler: GCC 10.2.1 20210110, File-System: ext4 C: Processor: Intel Core i7-5960X @ 3.50GHz (8 Cores / 16 Threads), Motherboard: Gigabyte X99-UD4-CF (F24c BIOS), Chipset: Intel Xeon E7 v3/Xeon, Memory: 32GB, Disk: 120GB INTEL SSDSC2BW12, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Network: Intel I218-V OS: Debian 11, Kernel: 5.10.0-10-amd64 (x86_64), Vulkan: 1.0.2, Compiler: GCC 10.2.1 20210110, File-System: ext4 Parallel BZIP2 Compression 1.1.13 FreeBSD-13.0-RELEASE-amd64-memstick.img Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better A . 12.52 |=================================================================== B . 12.58 |=================================================================== C . 12.72 |====================================================================