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

14 May 2024

Test Maintainer

Michael Larabel

Test Type

Processor

Average Install Time

27 Seconds

Average Run Time

5 Minutes, 18 Seconds

Test Dependencies

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

Accolades

300k+ Downloads + 30k+ Public Benchmark Results + Recently Updated Test Profile

Supported Platforms

* 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 29 May 2024.

Revision History

pts/compress-7zip-1.11.0 [View Source] Tue, 14 May 2024 19:57:58 GMT
Update against 7-Zip 24.05 upstream.

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 24.05

Test: Compression Rating

OpenBenchmarking.org metrics for this test profile configuration based on 268 public results since 14 May 2024 with the latest data as of 4 June 2024.

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)

2 x AMD EPYC 9754 128-Core

99th

799824 ^{+/- 14181}

2 x INTEL XEON PLATINUM 8592

97th

720194 ^{+/- 11211}

2 x Intel Xeon 6780E

96th

627283 ^{+/- 4110}

2 x Intel Xeon 6766E

94th

614778 ^{+/- 543}

Intel Xeon 6780E

90th

464546 ^{+/- 463}

INTEL XEON PLATINUM 8592

88th

454943 ^{+/- 237}

Intel Xeon 6766E

87th

443674 ^{+/- 132}

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7980X 64-Cores

84th

358953 ^{+/- 4953}

AMD EPYC 8534PN 64-Core

81st

330298 ^{+/- 88}

2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6444Y

78th

299970 ^{+/- 1645}

Intel Xeon Gold 6414U

76th

222671 ^{+/- 251}

Mid-Tier

75th

< 199310

AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D 16-Core

75th

183813 ^{+/- 13350}

Intel Core i9-14900K

73rd

182055 ^{+/- 377}

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X 64-Core

71st

178904 ^{+/- 232}

AMD EPYC 4584PX 16-Core

69th

177235 ^{+/- 1302}

AMD Ryzen 9 7950X 16-Core

66th

175642 ^{+/- 9022}

AMD EPYC 4464P 12-Core

60th

140358 ^{+/- 497}

AMD Ryzen 9 7900 12-Core

59th

140037 ^{+/- 3941}

AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 16-Core

57th

137627 ^{+/- 1189}

AMD EPYC 7551 32-Core

54th

115838 ^{+/- 4160}

Intel Core i5-14500

53rd

108847 ^{+/- 532}

Median

50th

98256

Intel Xeon E E-2488

50th

97875 ^{+/- 441}

Intel Xeon Silver 4216

49th

91648 ^{+/- 575}

Intel Core i5-14400F

48th

88955

AMD Ryzen 7 5700G

46th

83569 ^{+/- 748}

AMD Ryzen 7 7840HS

43rd

80229 ^{+/- 4381}

AMD Ryzen 5 8400F 6-Core

43rd

80225 ^{+/- 125}

Intel Core Ultra 7 155H

41st

77296 ^{+/- 2957}

AMD Ryzen 7 7840U

40th

75307 ^{+/- 889}

Intel Core i7-1280P

37th

67374 ^{+/- 4796}

AMD EPYC 7F32 8-Core

37th

66958 ^{+/- 1210}

AMD EPYC 4124P 4-Core

32nd

57038 ^{+/- 457}

AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 6850U

30th

55034 ^{+/- 685}

AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX

29th

53689 ^{+/- 99}

AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U

26th

49385 ^{+/- 36}

Low-Tier

25th

< 47799

AMD Ryzen 7 4700U

22nd

35840 ^{+/- 269}

Intel Core i7-1185G7

21st

29680 ^{+/- 349}

Intel Core i7-8565U

19th

25561 ^{+/- 407}

ARMv8 Cortex-A77 6-Core

13th

15668 ^{+/- 1799}

Based on OpenBenchmarking.org data, the selected test / test configuration (7-Zip Compression 24.05 - Test: Compression Rating) has an average run-time of 5 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.

Based on public OpenBenchmarking.org results, the selected test / test configuration has an average standard deviation of 0.4%.

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

Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX)

Used by default on supported hardware.
Found on Intel processors since Sandy Bridge (2011).
Found on AMD processors since Bulldozer (2011).

VZEROUPPER

Advanced Vector Extensions 2 (AVX2)

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

VPBROADCASTD VINSERTI128 VEXTRACTI128

Advanced Encryption Standard (AES)

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)

ARMv8 64-bit

aarch64

ARMv8 Cortex-A77 6-Core

2024-05-31-2054 1 System - 20 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 9 5900X 12-Core - ASUS TUF GAMING X570-PLUS - AMD Starship Fedora Linux 40 - 6.8.10-300.fc40.x86_64 - X Server 1.20.11
7zip-noht 3 Systems - 2 Benchmark Results	Intel Xeon E5-2697 v2 - HP 1589 - Intel Xeon E7 v2 Arch Linux - 6.6.2-arch1-1 - GCC 13.2.1 20230801
7zip-commpress 1 System - 2 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 5 5500 - ASUS PRIME B350M-A - AMD Renoir Ubuntu 22.04 - 6.5.0-35-generic - X Server 1.21.1.4
CPU-THROT 1 System - 3 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i7-9750H - Dell 0VYV0G - Intel Cannon Lake PCH Linuxmint 21.3 - 5.15.0-107-generic - Cinnamon 6.0.4
cpu-boot-time 1 System - 3 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i7-9750H - Dell 0VYV0G - Intel Cannon Lake PCH Linuxmint 21.3 - 5.15.0-107-generic - Cinnamon 6.0.4
AMD Ryzen 5 2600 / Ryzen 7 2700 Ubuntu Linux Benchmarks 45 Systems - 69 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 5 2600 Six-Core - Gigabyte B450 AORUS M - AMD Family 17h Fedora 30 - 5.2.13-200.fc30.x86_64 - KDE Plasma 5.15.5
Posiblex-Test_Results-2024 1 System - 16 Benchmark Results	Intel Celeron N3350 - N/A PS-3616 - Intel Celeron N3350 Ubuntu 22.04 - 5.19.0-32-generic - GNOME Shell 42.5
generalcpu-2312-UV\|f39fsync 3 Systems - 36 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 7 5800X 8-Core - Gigabyte B550 AORUS ELITE AX V2 - AMD Starship Fedora Linux 39 - 6.6.2-202.fsync.fc39.x86_64 - GNOME Shell 45.2
generalcpu-2312-UV\|f39fsyncRAM32 1 System - 36 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 7 5800X 8-Core - Gigabyte B550 AORUS ELITE AX V2 - AMD Starship Fedora Linux 39 - 6.6.7-203.fsync.fc39.x86_64 - GNOME Shell 45.2
generalcpu-2310-f39fsync 1 System - 36 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 7 5800X 8-Core - Gigabyte B550 AORUS ELITE AX V2 - AMD Starship Fedora Linux 39 - 6.6.2-202.fsync.fc39.x86_64 - GNOME Shell 45.2
generalcpu-2310-fsync 1 System - 36 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 7 5800X 8-Core - Gigabyte B550 AORUS ELITE AX V2 - AMD Starship Fedora Linux 38 - 6.5.12-201.fsync.fc38.x86_64 - GNOME Shell 44.6
generalCPU-2310 1 System - 36 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 7 5800X 8-Core - Gigabyte B550 AORUS ELITE AX V2 - AMD Starship Fedora Linux 38 - 6.5.11-200.fc38.x86_64 - GNOME Shell 44.6
pts_compress-7zip.txt 1 System - 2 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i7-7700HQ - Oracle VirtualBox v1.2 - Intel 440FX 82441FX PMC Ubuntu 24.04 - 6.8.0-31-generic - GNOME Shell 46.0
7zipcompress2 1 System - 2 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 5 5600X 6-Core - MSI B350M GAMING PRO - AMD Starship Arch rolling - 6.8.11-x64v3-xanmod1 - GNOME Shell 46.2
7zipcompress 1 System - 2 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 5 5600X 6-Core - MSI B350M GAMING PRO - AMD Starship Arch rolling - 6.8.11-x64v3-xanmod1 - GNOME Shell 46.2

new tests 2 Systems - 49 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7980X 64-Cores - System76 Thelio Major - AMD Device 14a4 Fedora Linux 40 - 6.8.5-301.fc40.x86_64 - GNOME Shell 46.1
7z tr 4 Systems - 2 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X 64-Core - Gigabyte TRX40 AORUS PRO WIFI - AMD Starship Pop 22.04 - 6.8.0-76060800daily20240311-generic - GNOME Shell 42.5
system performance assessment results 14 Systems - 19 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i5-11260H - Oracle VirtualBox v1.2 - Intel 440FX 82441FX PMC Ubuntu 22.04 - 5.15.0-47-generic - GNOME Shell 42.4
new tests 2 Systems - 49 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7980X 64-Cores - System76 Thelio Major - AMD Device 14a4 Fedora Linux 40 - 6.8.5-301.fc40.x86_64 - GNOME Shell 46.1
cpu-results 9 Systems - 18 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i5-11260H - Oracle VirtualBox v1.2 - Intel 440FX 82441FX PMC Ubuntu 22.04 - 5.15.0-47-generic - GNOME Shell 42.4
cray 3 Systems - 5 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 7 7840U - Framework Laptop 13 - AMD Device 14e8 Ubuntu 22.04 - 6.5.0-35-generic - GNOME Shell 42.9
sss Featured Graphics Comparison	AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX - ASUS ROG Strix G513QY_G513QY G513QY v1.0 - AMD Renoir Ubuntu 22.10 - 5.19.0-46-generic - GNOME Shell 43.0
7z 3 Systems - 2 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i5-14500 - ASUS PRIME Z790-P WIFI - Intel Raptor Lake-S PCH Ubuntu 24.04 - 6.8.0-31-generic - GNOME Shell 46.0
7zip 3 Systems - 2 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 5 8400F 6-Core - ASRock B650 Pro RS - AMD Device 14e8 Ubuntu 24.04 - 6.8.0-31-generic - GNOME Shell 46.0
4124p tests 3 Systems - 4 Benchmark Results	AMD EPYC 4124P 4-Core - Supermicro AS-3015A-I H13SAE-MF v1.00 - AMD Device 14d8 Ubuntu 24.04 - 6.8.0-11-generic - GNOME Shell 45.3
ddd 3 Systems - 74 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i7-8565U - Dell XPS 13 9380 0KTW76 - Intel Cannon Point-LP Ubuntu 23.10 - 6.7.0-060700rc5-generic - GNOME Shell 45.1
Gandalf80Tests 2 Systems - 27 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D 16-Core - ASUS ROG STRIX X670E-F GAMING WIFI - 2 x 32768 MB 6400MHz AX5U6400C3232G-BLABK Microsoft Windows 11 Pro Build 22631 - 10.0.22631.3593 - 555.85
xeon e-2488 final 2 Systems - 82 Benchmark Results	Intel Xeon E E-2488 - Supermicro Super Server X13SCL-F v0123456789 - Intel Raptor Lake-S PCH Ubuntu 24.04 - 6.8.0-11-generic - GNOME Shell 45.3
nocpu6 1 System - 23 Benchmark Results	ARMv8 Cortex-A77 - KONA - 8GB Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.4.219 - Wayland Weston 8.0.0
ssss 1 System - 34 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i5-14500 - ASUS PRIME Z790-P WIFI - Intel Raptor Lake-S PCH Ubuntu 24.04 - 6.8.0-31-generic - GNOME Shell 46.0