Zstd Compression

This test measures the time needed to compress/decompress a sample file (a FreeBSD disk image - FreeBSD-12.2-RELEASE-amd64-memstick.img) using Zstd compression with options for different compression levels / settings.

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

Project Site

github.com

Test Created

24 May 2018

Last Updated

3 March 2021

Test Maintainer

Michael Larabel

Test Type

Processor

Average Install Time

1 Minute

Average Run Time

7 Minutes, 25 Seconds

Test Dependencies

C/C++ Compiler Toolchain

Accolades

50k+ Downloads

Supported Platforms

* 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.
Data current as of Sat, 10 Apr 2021 15:17:36 GMT.

Revision History

pts/compress-zstd-1.3.0 [View Source] Wed, 03 Mar 2021 16:48:52 GMT
Update against upstream Zstd 1.4.9, expose decompression speed, switch to FreeBSD img as input test, also add long mode options.

pts/compress-zstd-1.2.1 [View Source] Fri, 04 Sep 2020 18:26:12 GMT
Zstd output parser fix per https://github.com/phoronix-test-suite/phoronix-test-suite/pull/467

pts/compress-zstd-1.2.0 [View Source] Fri, 22 May 2020 07:18:54 GMT
Update against Zstd 1.4.5, transition to MB/s reporting with -b interface.

pts/compress-zstd-1.1.3 [View Source] Fri, 03 Apr 2020 16:24:17 GMT
Update patch per https://github.com/phoronix-test-suite/test-profiles/issues/132

pts/compress-zstd-1.1.2 [View Source] Mon, 02 Mar 2020 07:34:12 GMT
Build fix for some platforms via https://github.com/phoronix-test-suite/test-profiles/pull/128

pts/compress-zstd-1.1.1 [View Source] Thu, 17 Jan 2019 10:59:33 GMT
Add Windows support.

pts/compress-zstd-1.1.0 [View Source] Thu, 08 Nov 2018 20:33:01 GMT
Enforce threading for Zstd

pts/compress-zstd-1.0.0 [View Source] Thu, 24 May 2018 10:22:41 GMT
Initial commit of a basic Zstandard compression benchmark.

Suites Using This Test

Compression Tests

C/C++ Compiler Tests

Multi-Core

CPU Massive

Server CPU Tests

Programmer / Developer System Benchmarks

Performance Metrics

Analyze Test Configuration:

Zstd Compression 1.4.9

Compression Level: 19 - Compression Speed

OpenBenchmarking.org metrics for this test profile configuration based on 367 public results since 3 March 2021 with the latest data as of 10 April 2021.

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

# Matching Public Results

MB/s (Average)

AMD EPYC 75F3 32-Core

100th

97.1 ^{+/- 1.4}

AMD EPYC 7763 64-Core

97th

87.0 ^{+/- 0.6}

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3970X 32-Core

92nd

85.4 ^{+/- 0.5}

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X 64-Core

92nd

85.2 ^{+/- 1.8}

2 x AMD EPYC 75F3 32-Core

91st

84.7 ^{+/- 2.6}

AMD EPYC 7713 64-Core

89th

83.6 ^{+/- 6.8}

AMD EPYC 7702 64-Core

87th

82.6 ^{+/- 0.8}

2 x AMD EPYC 7763 64-Core

86th

81.9 ^{+/- 2.0}

2 x AMD EPYC 7713 64-Core

85th

81.7 ^{+/- 1.7}

2 x Intel Xeon Platinum 8280

82nd

77.1 ^{+/- 3.0}

Intel Xeon Platinum 8280

81st

75.7 ^{+/- 0.5}

AMD EPYC 7F72 24-Core

80th

74.7 ^{+/- 1.6}

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3960X 24-Core

78th

73.7 ^{+/- 1.5}

AMD EPYC 7F52 16-Core

76th

72.5 ^{+/- 1.4}

2 x AMD EPYC 7742 64-Core

76th

70.8 ^{+/- 1.5}

Mid-Tier

75th

< 70.7

2 x AMD EPYC 7F52 16-Core

73rd

62.5 ^{+/- 0.8}

Intel Core i9-10980XE

71st

60.1 ^{+/- 0.8}

Intel Xeon Gold 6226R

71st

60.1 ^{+/- 1.0}

Intel Xeon Silver 4216

68th

58.3 ^{+/- 0.4}

AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 16-Core

67th

52.1 ^{+/- 3.6}

AMD Ryzen 9 3950X 16-Core

63rd

47.4 ^{+/- 0.1}

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2970WX 24-Core

62nd

47.2 ^{+/- 1.5}

AMD Ryzen 9 5900X 12-Core

60th

44.4 ^{+/- 0.3}

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2990WX 32-Core

58th

43.6 ^{+/- 0.9}

AMD Ryzen 9 3900XT 12-Core

57th

37.8 ^{+/- 0.1}

AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 12-Core

55th

37.4 ^{+/- 0.3}

AMD Ryzen 7 5800X 8-Core

53rd

35.9 ^{+/- 0.1}

AMD EPYC 7551 32-Core

52nd

34.7 ^{+/- 1.6}

Intel Core i9-9900KS

51st

34.6 ^{+/- 0.1}

Median

50th

34.5

2 x AMD EPYC 7601 32-Core

50th

33.9 ^{+/- 0.3}

Intel Core i9-10900K

49th

33.7 ^{+/- 0.1}

Intel Core i9-11900K

48th

33.6 ^{+/- 0.7}

AMD Ryzen 7 3800XT 8-Core

42nd

32.8 ^{+/- 0.1}

Intel Core i9-9900K

42nd

32.2 ^{+/- 4.4}

Intel Core i7-10700T

42nd

31.7 ^{+/- 1.7}

AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 8-Core

40th

31.3 ^{+/- 0.2}

Intel Core i5-10600K

39th

31.2 ^{+/- 2.4}

AMD Ryzen 5 5600X 6-Core

39th

31.2 ^{+/- 0.2}

Intel Core i5-11600K

35th

29.0

Intel Xeon E-2288G

33rd

28.4 ^{+/- 0.2}

Intel Core i7-8086K

32nd

27.5 ^{+/- 0.1}

Intel Core i7-8700K

31st

27.2 ^{+/- 0.1}

AMD Ryzen 5 3600XT 6-Core

30th

25.7 ^{+/- 0.1}

Intel Core i7-9750H

30th

24.6 ^{+/- 0.1}

Intel Core i5-8400

29th

23.2

Intel Core i7-7740K

28th

22.8 ^{+/- 0.2}

Intel Xeon E3-1231 v3

27th

22.1 ^{+/- 0.2}

Intel Core i7-5775C

26th

21.5 ^{+/- 0.3}

Low-Tier

25th

< 21.3

AMD Ryzen 3 3300X 4-Core

25th

20.7 ^{+/- 0.1}

AMD Ryzen 7 1700 Eight-Core

24th

20.5 ^{+/- 0.2}

Intel Core i5-9400F

23rd

20.1

Intel Xeon E3-1275 v6

22nd

20.0 ^{+/- 0.1}

Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5

20th

17.9 ^{+/- 0.1}

Intel Core i3-10100

18th

16.2 ^{+/- 0.1}

Intel Core i7-1065G7

18th

16.0 ^{+/- 0.3}

AMD Ryzen 5 4500U

17th

15.9

Intel Core i3-8100

16th

15.5

AMD Ryzen 5 3400G

15th

15.0 ^{+/- 0.1}

Intel Core i5-4670

15th

15.0 ^{+/- 1.1}

Intel Core i5-6500

13th

14.1 ^{+/- 0.1}

Intel Core i7-8565U

11th

13.5 ^{+/- 0.1}

Intel Core i7-2700K

10th

13.2 ^{+/- 0.1}

Intel Core i7-8550U

9th

11.7

Intel Core i5-7600K

8th

11.5

Intel Xeon E3-1235L v5

7th

11.4

Intel Core i3-7100

6th

10.9

Intel Core i7-5600U

4th

9.9 ^{+/- 0.1}

AMD Ryzen 3 3200U

3rd

7.3

ARMv8 Cortex-A72 4-Core

2nd

2.9

Based on OpenBenchmarking.org data, the selected test / test configuration (Zstd Compression 1.4.9 - Compression Level: 19 - Compression Speed) has an average run-time of 4 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 0.6%.

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.

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.

COMISD MOVAPD CVTSI2SD MULSD DIVSD SUBSD CVTTSD2SI ADDSD MOVDQA MOVD PUNPCKLQDQ MOVDQU PSHUFD PMULUDQ PSRLDQ PADDQ SHUFPD MINSD

Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX)

Requires passing a supported compiler/build flag (verified with targets: sandybridge, skylake, tigerlake, cascadelake, sapphirerapids, alderlake, znver2, znver3).
Found on Intel processors since Sandy Bridge (2011).
Found on AMD processors since Bulldozer (2011).

VINSERTF128 VEXTRACTF128 VZEROUPPER VBROADCASTSS

Advanced Vector Extensions 2 (AVX2)

Requires passing a supported compiler/build flag (verified with targets: skylake, tigerlake, cascadelake, sapphirerapids, alderlake, znver2, znver3).
Found on Intel processors since Haswell (2013).
Found on AMD processors since Excavator (2016).

VPBROADCASTQ VPBROADCASTD VPSLLVD VEXTRACTI128 VPBROADCASTW VPERMQ VPBROADCASTB VINSERTI128 VPERM2I128 VPERMD VPBLENDD

FMA (FMA)

VFMADD132SD

The test / benchmark does honor compiler flag changes.

Last automated analysis: 30 January 2021

This test profile binary relies on the shared libraries libz.so.1, liblzma.so.5, libpthread.so.0, libc.so.6.

Intel Core i5 11600K + Core i9 11900K Linux Performance 12 Systems - 453 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 5 5600X 6-Core - ASUS ROG CROSSHAIR VIII HERO - AMD Starship Ubuntu 21.04 - 5.12.0-051200rc3daily20210315-generic - GNOME Shell 3.38.3
mini-3cs-made-ram 1 System - 115 Benchmark Results	Intel Xeon E3-1225 v6 - (2.002 BIOS) - Intel Xeon E3-1200 v6 Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.4.0-70-generic - 1.2.145
mini-ch-made-ram 1 System - 115 Benchmark Results	Intel Xeon E3-1225 v5 - INTEL H110 - Intel Xeon E3-1200 v5 Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.4.0-66-generic - 1.2.145
noncpuflags_compression_bench 1 System - 40 Benchmark Results	Intel Xeon - Red Hat RHEL-AV - Intel 82G33 Debian 9.12 - 4.9.0-12-amd64 - GCC 6.3.0 20170516
broadwell_compression_bench 1 System - 40 Benchmark Results	Intel Core - Red Hat RHEL-AV - Intel 82G33 Debian 9.12 - 4.9.0-12-amd64 - GCC 6.3.0 20170516
server-mem-test-20210407 1 System - 108 Benchmark Results	2 x Intel Xeon Gold 5218R - Supermicro X11DPX-T - Intel Device 2020 Ubuntu 16.04 - 4.15.0-140-generic - Unity 7.4.0
rocket-lake-windows 3 Systems - 94 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i9-11900K - ASUS ROG MAXIMUS XIII HERO - 2 x 16384 MB 3200MHz Corsair CMK32GX4M2Z3600C18 Microsoft Windows 10 Pro Build 19042 - 10.0 - 10.0.19041.868
rocket-lake-windows 2 Systems - 92 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i9-11900K - ASUS ROG MAXIMUS XIII HERO - 2 x 16384 MB 3200MHz Corsair CMK32GX4M2Z3600C18 Microsoft Windows 10 Pro Build 19042 - 10.0 - 10.0.19041.868
naraku-bench 1 System - 212 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i5-8250U - LENOVO 20L7CTO1WW - Intel Xeon E3-1200 v6 Debian testing - 5.10.0-5-amd64 - GNOME Shell 3.38.4
server-cpu-test-20210406 1 System - 89 Benchmark Results	2 x Intel Xeon Gold 5218R - Supermicro X11DPX-T - Intel Device 2020 Ubuntu 16.04 - 4.15.0-140-generic - Unity 7.4.0
dell-inspiron-5301 28 Systems - 34 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i7-1165G7 - Dell 0FW9PR - Intel Tiger Lake-LP Ubuntu 20.10 - 5.11.3-051103-generic - GNOME Shell 3.38.2
dell-inspiron-5301 28 Systems - 33 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i7-1165G7 - Dell 0FW9PR - Intel Tiger Lake-LP Ubuntu 20.10 - 5.11.4-051104-generic - GNOME Shell 3.38.2

3200u zsrtd 3 Systems - 12 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 3 3200U - MOTILE PF4PU1F - AMD Raven Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.8.0-44-generic - GNOME Shell 3.36.4
zstd broadwell 4 Systems - 12 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i7-5775C - MSI Z97-G45 GAMING - Intel Broadwell-U DMI Ubuntu 18.10 - 5.0.0-999-generic - GNOME Shell 3.30.2
tigerlake zstd compression 4 Systems - 12 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i7-1165G7 - Dell 0GG9PT - Intel Tiger Lake-LP Ubuntu 20.10 - 5.11.0-051100daily20210228-generic - GNOME Shell 3.38.2
Xeon Platinum build tests and more 3 Systems - 16 Benchmark Results	2 x Intel Xeon Platinum 8280 - GIGABYTE MD61-SC2-00 v01000100 - Intel Sky Lake-E DMI3 Registers Ubuntu 21.04 - 5.11.0-051100rc7daily20210209-generic - GNOME Shell 3.38.2
10900k new stuff 3 Systems - 27 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i9-10900K - Gigabyte Z490 AORUS MASTER - Intel Comet Lake PCH Ubuntu 20.10 - 5.11.0-051100rc2daily20210106-generic - GNOME Shell 3.38.1
zstd build tests 2950X 3 Systems - 13 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2950X 16-Core - MSI MEG X399 CREATION - AMD 17h Debian 10 - 5.8.1-050801-generic - GNOME Shell 3.30.2
epyc 7551 zstd 3 Systems - 12 Benchmark Results	AMD EPYC 7551 32-Core - GIGABYTE MZ31-AR0-00 v01010101 - AMD 17h Debian 10 - 4.19.0-10-amd64 - GCC 8.3.0
zstd renoir 4 Systems - 12 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 5 4500U - LENOVO LNVNB161216 - AMD Renoir Root Complex Ubuntu 20.10 - 5.11.0-051100daily20210228-generic - GNOME Shell 3.38.2
zstd 5900X 3 Systems - 11 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 9 5900X 12-Core - ASUS ROG CROSSHAIR VIII HERO - AMD Starship Ubuntu 20.10 - 5.11.0-051100-generic - GNOME Shell 3.38.1
zstd kernel cascade lake x 7 Systems - 13 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i9-10980XE - ASRock X299 Steel Legend - Intel Sky Lake-E DMI3 Registers Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.11.0-rc2-phx - GNOME Shell 3.36.4
Intel Core i5 11600K + Core i9 11900K Linux Performance 8 Systems - 439 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 7 5800X 8-Core - ASUS ROG CROSSHAIR VIII HERO - AMD Starship Ubuntu 21.04 - 5.12.0-051200rc3daily20210315-generic - GNOME Shell 3.38.3
5800X march 3 Systems - 66 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 7 5800X 8-Core - ASRock X570 Pro4 - AMD Starship Ubuntu 20.10 - 5.11.0-051100rc3daily20210116-generic - GNOME Shell 3.38.1

Zstd Compression

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Test Created

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Zstd Compression 1.4.9

Compression Level: 19 - Compression Speed

Does It Scale Well With Increasing Cores?

Notable Instruction Set Usage

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