7-Zip Compression

This is a test of 7-Zip compression/decompression with its integrated benchmark feature.

To run this test with the Phoronix Test Suite, the basic command is: phoronix-test-suite benchmark compress-7zip.

Project Site

7-zip.org

Test Created

6 December 2010

Last Updated

31 August 2022

Test Maintainer

Michael Larabel 

Test Type

Processor

Average Install Time

28 Seconds

Average Run Time

3 Minutes, 52 Seconds

Test Dependencies

C/C++ Compiler Toolchain + 7-Zip / p7zip

Accolades

300k+ Downloads + 30k+ Public Benchmark Results

Supported Platforms


Public Result Uploads *Reported Test Completions **Reported Installs **Test Profile Page Views ***OpenBenchmarking.orgEvents7-Zip Compression Popularity Statisticspts/compress-7zip2010.122011.052011.102012.032012.082013.012013.062013.112014.042014.092015.022015.072015.122016.052016.102017.032017.082018.012018.062018.112019.042019.092020.022020.072020.122021.052021.102022.032022.082023.012023.062023.11120K240K360K480K600K
* Uploading of benchmark result data to OpenBenchmarking.org is always optional (opt-in) via the Phoronix Test Suite for users wishing to share their results publicly.
** Data based on those opting to upload their test results to OpenBenchmarking.org and users enabling the opt-in anonymous statistics reporting while running benchmarks from an Internet-connected platform.
*** Test profile page view reporting began March 2021.
Data updated weekly as of 28 November 2023.
Decompression Rating49.8%Compression Rating50.2%Test Option PopularityOpenBenchmarking.org

Revision History

pts/compress-7zip-1.10.0   [View Source]   Wed, 31 Aug 2022 12:44:34 GMT
Update against 7-Zip 22.01 to address GCC 12 build issue with prior version.

pts/compress-7zip-1.9.0   [View Source]   Sun, 19 Jun 2022 12:57:42 GMT
Update against upstream 7-Zip 22.00.

pts/compress-7zip-1.8.0   [View Source]   Thu, 25 Nov 2021 16:35:13 GMT
Update against 7-Zip 21.06 upstream now that the 21.06 release has sources available and seems to be building nicely on Linux. Closes: https://github.com/phoronix-test-suite/test-profiles/issues/213

pts/compress-7zip-1.7.1   [View Source]   Fri, 08 May 2020 19:39:52 GMT
Update download links, include build fix for newer compilers: https://github.com/phoronix-test-suite/test-profiles/issues/142

pts/compress-7zip-1.7.0   [View Source]   Wed, 28 Feb 2018 14:07:14 GMT
Update against upstream 7-Zip 16.02, add Windows support.

pts/compress-7zip-1.6.2   [View Source]   Wed, 07 Sep 2016 12:00:29 GMT
Update download links

pts/compress-7zip-1.6.1   [View Source]   Thu, 08 Oct 2015 16:51:13 GMT
Update download URLs

pts/compress-7zip-1.6.0   [View Source]   Wed, 07 Dec 2011 11:32:20 GMT
Update against upstream p7zip 9.20.1

pts/compress-7zip-1.5.0   [View Source]   Mon, 06 Dec 2010 14:36:39 GMT
Initial import into OpenBenchmarking.org

Suites Using This Test

Compression Tests

C/C++ Compiler Tests

Multi-Core

CPU Massive

Server CPU Tests


Performance Metrics

Analyze Test Configuration:

7-Zip Compression 22.01

Test: Compression Rating

OpenBenchmarking.org metrics for this test profile configuration based on 3,760 public results since 31 August 2022 with the latest data as of 30 November 2023.

Below is an overview of the generalized performance for components where there is sufficient statistically significant data based upon user-uploaded results. It is important to keep in mind particularly in the Linux/open-source space there can be vastly different OS configurations, with this overview intended to offer just general guidance as to the performance expectations.

Component
Percentile Rank
# Compatible Public Results
MIPS (Average)
100th
6
838262 +/- 50327
100th
5
831483 +/- 7550
100th
12
822236 +/- 21340
99th
20
769204 +/- 80436
98th
23
660619 +/- 53522
98th
12
626922 +/- 60787
97th
5
585869 +/- 5011
97th
25
584762 +/- 60208
97th
15
583465 +/- 10613
97th
6
573045 +/- 36564
95th
7
538552 +/- 61138
95th
32
532011 +/- 37242
95th
22
530001 +/- 29449
94th
19
515184 +/- 10527
94th
4
507499 +/- 13166
93rd
7
462726 +/- 2653
92nd
7
457272 +/- 54292
92nd
7
440180 +/- 50168
92nd
4
433825 +/- 39213
92nd
4
412456 +/- 9041
91st
5
399602 +/- 3777
91st
12
398373 +/- 4981
91st
25
388494 +/- 53365
90th
8
383638 +/- 6529
90th
3
377044 +/- 1873
90th
13
374975 +/- 18173
90th
8
372330 +/- 20824
89th
9
359248 +/- 3104
89th
9
358674 +/- 10747
89th
13
355871 +/- 12018
89th
9
355232 +/- 3443
88th
3
346090 +/- 1082
88th
5
344943 +/- 3529
88th
4
344919 +/- 17509
88th
5
342221 +/- 35030
87th
14
341111 +/- 12983
87th
3
330102 +/- 2322
87th
10
327985 +/- 1616
86th
6
326832 +/- 31946
86th
11
323677 +/- 9519
86th
12
317349 +/- 27638
85th
6
307643 +/- 3205
85th
4
302094 +/- 666
85th
4
289574 +/- 3069
84th
4
282563 +/- 3204
84th
4
281691 +/- 2580
84th
7
274578 +/- 3951
84th
13
265107 +/- 15867
83rd
4
251343 +/- 2000
83rd
8
242765 +/- 658
83rd
5
242713 +/- 1064
82nd
3
236272 +/- 6520
82nd
5
233934 +/- 12427
82nd
9
226716 +/- 21252
81st
16
221273 +/- 5703
81st
3
216594 +/- 573
81st
3
210882 +/- 1149
80th
3
197125 +/- 997
77th
4
184666 +/- 5572
76th
133
182677 +/- 10506
76th
57
179854 +/- 6867
Mid-Tier
75th
< 179810
75th
37
179671 +/- 11673
74th
15
173662 +/- 19023
74th
6
172527 +/- 764
73rd
4
170760 +/- 1059
73rd
3
165401 +/- 12903
72nd
4
161267 +/- 18296
72nd
4
156643 +/- 4833
70th
3
151780 +/- 4634
70th
39
147647 +/- 9291
70th
22
145702 +/- 7884
69th
5
143398 +/- 4577
69th
6
142594 +/- 11838
69th
43
142124 +/- 10330
66th
8
127943 +/- 6853
66th
8
127829 +/- 656
66th
14
126468 +/- 689
65th
15
124348 +/- 15596
65th
10
119165 +/- 2267
62nd
37
110424 +/- 7255
62nd
31
109218 +/- 4284
62nd
32
108267 +/- 12520
62nd
3
107128 +/- 862
62nd
20
106058 +/- 4804
61st
4
103563 +/- 626
59th
31
95360 +/- 8104
58th
9
90328 +/- 11931
58th
3
90179 +/- 7630
58th
5
89098 +/- 3881
57th
12
87927 +/- 4401
57th
3
86454 +/- 7280
56th
4
85547 +/- 344
56th
23
84348 +/- 5498
56th
25
83243 +/- 4481
55th
3
82608 +/- 277
54th
37
80809 +/- 7746
54th
5
79913 +/- 5003
52nd
27
75008 +/- 6402
52nd
7
74788 +/- 1407
51st
16
73573 +/- 6876
51st
5
73495 +/- 1517
51st
5
71979 +/- 2506
51st
8
71852 +/- 5613
Median
50th
71639
49th
10
70132 +/- 2691
49th
15
69641 +/- 1913
49th
29
68929 +/- 3474
47th
27
65141 +/- 4674
46th
6
63238 +/- 5943
46th
13
62789 +/- 4347
46th
15
62657 +/- 6730
45th
10
60265 +/- 206
45th
3
60011 +/- 207
44th
29
58534 +/- 5317
43rd
4
57833 +/- 867
43rd
4
57698 +/- 960
42nd
10
54723 +/- 2198
42nd
42
54691 +/- 4612
41st
3
53762 +/- 92
41st
24
53577 +/- 4096
40th
5
52640 +/- 1035
39th
5
48309 +/- 4213
38th
3
47778 +/- 786
38th
6
47456 +/- 3372
38th
7
46854 +/- 1795
38th
7
46616 +/- 6360
38th
5
46156 +/- 1695
38th
5
46083 +/- 333
36th
3
41696 +/- 4469
36th
6
41115 +/- 213
36th
3
40950 +/- 856
36th
5
40718 +/- 941
36th
3
40696 +/- 1232
36th
3
40688 +/- 3736
35th
4
39474 +/- 5799
34th
31
38873 +/- 808
34th
8
38632 +/- 1818
34th
10
38552 +/- 3569
34th
4
38136 +/- 379
32nd
7
34495 +/- 4331
32nd
3
34411 +/- 228
32nd
7
34106 +/- 3150
32nd
4
34066 +/- 4311
32nd
3
34024 +/- 1555
32nd
8
33806 +/- 3658
32nd
3
32890 +/- 4776
31st
3
32412 +/- 148
30th
11
30858 +/- 3523
30th
3
30407 +/- 588
30th
4
29948 +/- 569
30th
3
29459 +/- 141
29th
4
28653 +/- 441
29th
6
28573 +/- 955
29th
3
28306 +/- 307
29th
4
28246 +/- 3053
28th
5
27806 +/- 246
27th
12
27518 +/- 629
27th
6
27486 +/- 63
26th
8
26702 +/- 3203
Low-Tier
25th
< 25785
25th
4
25453 +/- 934
25th
3
24624 +/- 1166
25th
3
24432 +/- 3625
24th
3
23565 +/- 984
24th
4
22956 +/- 32
24th
8
22575 +/- 1367
23rd
4
21338 +/- 693
23rd
3
20683 +/- 153
23rd
3
20383 +/- 222
21st
17
18641 +/- 1750
20th
3
18296 +/- 2162
19th
11
16525 +/- 1977
16th
7
14545 +/- 82
16th
4
14522 +/- 89
16th
4
13874 +/- 699
16th
3
13868 +/- 86
15th
3
13493 +/- 517
14th
4
12564 +/- 1612
14th
3
12370 +/- 342
14th
3
11946 +/- 1127
13th
3
11678 +/- 613
13th
4
11407 +/- 400
8th
3
6071 +/- 34
7th
3
5198 +/- 656
6th
4
4862 +/- 243
5th
28
4380 +/- 232
5th
5
4223 +/- 597
4th
4
3546 +/- 377
2nd
5
1236 +/- 6
2nd
3
357 +/- 11
OpenBenchmarking.orgDistribution Of Public Results - Test: Compression Rating3712 Results Range From 345 To 1517952 MIPS3453069861051914041217571521101824632128162431692735223038753342283645813949344252874556404859935163465466995770526074056377586681116984647288177591707895238198768502298805829109359412889716411001994103234710627001093053112340611537591184112121446512448181275171130552413358771366230139658314269361457289148764215179952004006008001000

Based on OpenBenchmarking.org data, the selected test / test configuration (7-Zip Compression 22.01 - Test: Compression Rating) has an average run-time of 3 minutes. By default this test profile is set to run at least 3 times but may increase if the standard deviation exceeds pre-defined defaults or other calculations deem additional runs necessary for greater statistical accuracy of the result.

OpenBenchmarking.orgMinutesTime Required To Complete BenchmarkTest: Compression RatingRun-Time510152025Min: 1 / Avg: 2.68 / Max: 20

Based on public OpenBenchmarking.org results, the selected test / test configuration has an average standard deviation of 0.5%.

OpenBenchmarking.orgPercent, Fewer Is BetterAverage Deviation Between RunsTest: Compression RatingDeviation246810Min: 0 / Avg: 0.47 / Max: 5

Does It Scale Well With Increasing Cores?

Yes, based on the automated analysis of the collected public benchmark data, this test / test settings does generally scale well with increasing CPU core counts. Data based on publicly available results for this test / test settings, separated by vendor, result divided by the reference CPU clock speed, grouped by matching physical CPU core count, and normalized against the smallest core count tested from each vendor for each CPU having a sufficient number of test samples and statistically significant data.

AMDIntelOpenBenchmarking.orgRelative Core Scaling To Base7-Zip Compression CPU Core ScalingTest: Compression Rating246812162432485664961281326395265

Notable Instruction Set Usage

Notable instruction set extensions supported by this test, based on an automatic analysis by the Phoronix Test Suite / OpenBenchmarking.org analytics engine.

Instruction Set
Support
Instructions Detected
SSE2 (SSE2)
Used by default on supported hardware.
 
MOVDQU MOVD PSHUFD MOVDQA PADDQ PUNPCKHQDQ PUNPCKLQDQ CVTSI2SD DIVSD MULSD COMISD SUBSD CVTTSD2SI
SSSE3 (SSSE3)
Used by default on supported hardware.
 
PSHUFB PALIGNR
Used by default on supported hardware.
Found on Intel processors since Sandy Bridge (2011).
Found on AMD processors since Bulldozer (2011).

 
VZEROUPPER
Used by default on supported hardware.
Found on Intel processors since Haswell (2013).
Found on AMD processors since Excavator (2016).

 
VPBROADCASTD VINSERTI128 VEXTRACTI128
Used by default on supported hardware.
Found on Intel processors since at least 2010.
Found on AMD processors since Bulldozer (2011).

 
AESENC AESENCLAST AESDEC AESDECLAST
Vector AES (VAES)
Used by default on supported hardware.
Found on Intel processors since Ice Lake (2019).
Found on AMD processors since Zen 3 (2020).

 
VAESDEC VAESDECLAST VAESENC VAESENCLAST
Last automated analysis: 2 September 2022

This test profile binary relies on the shared libraries libc.so.6, libm.so.6.

Tested CPU Architectures

This benchmark has been successfully tested on the below mentioned architectures. The CPU architectures listed is where successful OpenBenchmarking.org result uploads occurred, namely for helping to determine if a given test is compatible with various alternative CPU architectures.

CPU Architecture
Kernel Identifier
Verified On
Intel / AMD x86 64-bit
x86_64
(Many Processors)
RISC-V 64-bit
riscv64
SiFive RISC-V, rv64imafdcvsu
IBM POWER (PowerPC) 64-bit
ppc64le
POWER8E, POWER9 40-Core
IBM POWER (PowerPC) 64-bit
ppc64
POWER6, PPC970MP
MIPS 64-bit
mips64
Loongson-3A R2
Loongson LoongArch 64-bit
loongarch64
Loongson-3A5000, Loongson-3A5000-HV, Loongson-3A5000LL, Loongson-3A5000M, Loongson-3A6000
Intel / AMD x86 32-bit
i686
(Many Processors)
ARMv7 32-bit
armv7l
ARMv7, ARMv7 Cortex-A53 4-Core, ARMv7 Cortex-A72 4-Core
ARMv6 32-bit
armv6l
ARMv7
ARMv8 64-bit
aarch64
ARMv8, ARMv8 16-Core, ARMv8 4-Core, ARMv8 Cortex-A53 4-Core, ARMv8 Cortex-A55, ARMv8 Cortex-A55 4-Core, ARMv8 Cortex-A72 4-Core, ARMv8 Cortex-A72 6-Core, ARMv8 Cortex-A73 2-Core, ARMv8 Cortex-A73 6-Core, ARMv8 Cortex-A73 8-Core, ARMv8 Cortex-A76 4-Core, ARMv8 Cortex-A77 6-Core, ARMv8 Cortex-X1, ARMv8 Cortex-X1C 8-Core, ARMv8 Neoverse-N1, ARMv8 Neoverse-N1 128-Core, ARMv8 Neoverse-N1 16-Core, ARMv8 Neoverse-N1 2-Core, ARMv8 Neoverse-N1 256-Core, ARMv8 Neoverse-N1 64-Core, ARMv8 Neoverse-N1 80-Core, ARMv8 Neoverse-N1 96-Core, ARMv8 Neoverse-N2 16-Core, ARMv8 Neoverse-N2 4-Core, ARMv8 Neoverse-V1, ARMv8 Neoverse-V1 16-Core, ARMv8 Neoverse-V1 64-Core, Ampere ARMv8 Neoverse-N1 128-Core, Ampere ARMv8 Neoverse-N1 256-Core, Apple, Apple M1, Apple M2, HUAWEI Kunpeng 920, Phytium D2000, Rockchip ARMv8 Cortex-A55 4-Core, Rockchip ARMv8 Cortex-A72 6-Core, Rockchip ARMv8 Cortex-A76 4-Core, Rockchip ARMv8 Cortex-A76 6-Core, Rockchip ARMv8 Cortex-A76 8-Core

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