Zstd Compression

This test measures the time needed to compress/decompress a sample file (silesia.tar) using Zstd (Zstandard) 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

facebook.github.io

Source Repository

github.com

Test Created

24 May 2018

Last Updated

10 February 2023

Test Maintainer

Michael Larabel

Test Type

Processor

Average Install Time

1 Minute, 14 Seconds

Average Run Time

13 Minutes, 5 Seconds

Test Dependencies

C/C++ Compiler Toolchain

Accolades

100k+ Downloads + 5k+ Public Benchmark Results

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 28 November 2023.

Revision History

pts/compress-zstd-1.6.0 [View Source] Fri, 10 Feb 2023 07:59:36 GMT
Update against Zstandard 1.5.4 upstream.

pts/compress-zstd-1.5.0 [View Source] Fri, 14 May 2021 13:28:48 GMT
Update against upstream Zstd 1.5.

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 1.5.4

Compression Level: 19 - Compression Speed

OpenBenchmarking.org metrics for this test profile configuration based on 939 public results since 10 February 2023 with the latest data as of 27 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

MB/s (Average)

AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D 16-Core

100th

24.5 ^{+/- 1.2}

AMD Ryzen 9 7900X3D 12-Core

99th

23.8 ^{+/- 1.6}

AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D 8-Core

96th

22.9 ^{+/- 1.3}

AMD Ryzen 9 7950X 16-Core

95th

22.4 ^{+/- 1.3}

AMD Ryzen 9 7900X 12-Core

94th

22.0 ^{+/- 1.2}

AMD Ryzen 9 7900 12-Core

92nd

21.2 ^{+/- 0.5}

Intel Core i9-13900K

89th

20.7 ^{+/- 0.2}

AMD Ryzen 7 7700X 8-Core

85th

19.6 ^{+/- 1.6}

2 x AMD EPYC 9534 64-Core

84th

19.3 ^{+/- 0.3}

AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D 8-Core

83rd

19.0 ^{+/- 0.5}

2 x AMD EPYC 7373X 16-Core

82nd

18.8 ^{+/- 0.2}

AMD Ryzen 5 7600X 6-Core

81st

18.5 ^{+/- 1.2}

AMD Ryzen 7 7700 8-Core

80th

18.2

AMD Ryzen 9 5900X 12-Core

80th

18.2 ^{+/- 1.7}

AMD EPYC 9654 96-Core

78th

18.0 ^{+/- 0.9}

AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 16-Core

78th

18.0 ^{+/- 1.2}

2 x AMD EPYC 7573X 32-Core

78th

18.0

2 x AMD EPYC 9654 96-Core

77th

17.8 ^{+/- 1.2}

AMD EPYC 7773X 64-Core

76th

17.6

Mid-Tier

75th

< 17.6

AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 5965WX 24-Cores

73rd

17.3

Intel Core i9-10850K

72nd

17.2 ^{+/- 0.6}

2 x AMD EPYC 7773X 64-Core

72nd

17.2 ^{+/- 0.7}

2 x AMD EPYC 9554 64-Core

70th

16.7 ^{+/- 0.3}

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3970X 32-Core

70th

16.7 ^{+/- 0.1}

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3960X 24-Core

69th

16.4 ^{+/- 0.1}

Intel Core i9-11900K

69th

16.4 ^{+/- 0.6}

AMD Ryzen 7 5800X 8-Core

68th

15.9 ^{+/- 0.2}

Intel Core i5-12600K

68th

15.8

AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 12-Core

67th

15.6 ^{+/- 1.9}

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X 64-Core

66th

15.3

2 x Intel Xeon Platinum 8490H

66th

15.3 ^{+/- 0.9}

AMD Ryzen 9 3900XT 12-Core

65th

15.1 ^{+/- 0.1}

AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX

65th

14.7 ^{+/- 0.1}

2 x Intel Xeon Platinum 8380

64th

14.5 ^{+/- 0.2}

Intel Core i7-11700B

61st

13.9 ^{+/- 0.5}

2 x AMD EPYC 9754 128-Core

60th

13.6 ^{+/- 0.1}

Apple M2

59th

13.4

AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS

58th

13.3 ^{+/- 1.1}

AMD Ryzen 5 5600G

58th

13.3 ^{+/- 0.6}

Intel Core i9-10980XE

58th

13.2 ^{+/- 0.1}

Intel Core i5-12400

58th

13.1 ^{+/- 0.7}

Intel Core i7-8700K

57th

12.9 ^{+/- 0.6}

Intel Core i7-5960X

57th

12.9

Intel Xeon W-2295

57th

12.9

2 x Intel Xeon Gold 5220R

55th

12.8 ^{+/- 0.1}

2 x Intel Xeon E5-2680 v2

54th

12.7 ^{+/- 0.2}

AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX

53rd

12.6 ^{+/- 0.8}

Intel Xeon E-2388G

52nd

12.3

Median

50th

12.3

AMD Ryzen 7 7840U

48th

11.9 ^{+/- 0.8}

AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme

46th

11.7 ^{+/- 1.5}

AMD Ryzen 7 2700X Eight-Core

45th

11.5

AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 7840U

43rd

11.3 ^{+/- 0.1}

Intel Xeon Silver 4216

41st

11.1

AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U

41st

11.1

Intel Xeon E-2336

38th

10.9 ^{+/- 0.1}

2 x Intel Xeon E5-2680 v3

35th

10.5 ^{+/- 0.1}

AMD EPYC 7551 32-Core

29th

10.2 ^{+/- 0.1}

Ampere ARMv8 Neoverse-N1 256-Core

27th

10.1 ^{+/- 0.2}

Intel Core i7-8809G

27th

10.1 ^{+/- 0.1}

AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 6850U

26th

10.0 ^{+/- 1.0}

Low-Tier

25th

< 9.9

AMD Ryzen 5 5500U

22nd

9.5 ^{+/- 0.3}

Intel Core i7-1165G7

22nd

9.5 ^{+/- 0.7}

Intel Core i7-1185G7

19th

9.1 ^{+/- 0.3}

AMD Ryzen 5 4500U

19th

9.1 ^{+/- 0.1}

AMD Ryzen 7 4700U

18th

9.0 ^{+/- 0.4}

AMD EPYC 7251 8-Core

17th

8.9 ^{+/- 0.4}

AMD Ryzen 7 4800U

16th

8.8

Intel Core i7-1065G7

14th

8.3 ^{+/- 1.0}

Intel Core i7-8565U

12th

7.2 ^{+/- 0.1}

Intel Core i5-4430

11th

6.3

Intel Core i5-6500T

10th

5.8 ^{+/- 0.1}

Rockchip ARMv8 Cortex-A76 4-Core

9th

5.7 ^{+/- 0.2}

Intel Core i5-6260U

6th

4.0

ARMv8 Cortex-A72 4-Core

2nd

1.8 ^{+/- 0.1}

Based on OpenBenchmarking.org data, the selected test / test configuration (Zstd Compression 1.5.4 - Compression Level: 19 - Compression Speed) has an average run-time of 6 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%.

Does It Scale Well With Increasing Cores?

No, based on the automated analysis of the collected public benchmark data, this test / test settings does not 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 MULSD DIVSD SUBSD CVTTSD2SI CVTSI2SD ADDSD MOVDQA MOVD PUNPCKLQDQ MOVDQU PSHUFD PMULUDQ PSRLDQ PADDQ SHUFPD PSUBQ PUNPCKHQDQ MINSD UCOMISD

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).

VBROADCASTSD VEXTRACTF128 VZEROUPPER VINSERTF128 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 VPBROADCASTB VPERM2I128 VPERMD VINSERTI128 VPERMQ VPBROADCASTW VPBLENDD

FMA (FMA)

VFMADD132SD

Advanced Vector Extensions 512 (AVX512)

Requires passing a supported compiler/build flag (verified with targets: cascadelake, sapphirerapids).

(ZMM REGISTER USE)

The test / benchmark does honor compiler flag changes.

Last automated analysis: 18 March 2023

This test profile binary relies on the shared libraries libz.so.1, liblzma.so.5, liblz4.so.1, libc.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

ARMv8 64-bit

arm64

Apple M2 Max

ARMv8 64-bit

aarch64

ARMv8, ARMv8 Cortex-A57 4-Core, ARMv8 Cortex-A72, ARMv8 Cortex-A72 4-Core, ARMv8 Cortex-A76 4-Core, ARMv8 Cortex-X1, ARMv8 Neoverse-N1, ARMv8 Neoverse-N1 160-Core, ARMv8 Neoverse-V1, Ampere ARMv8 Neoverse-N1 256-Core, Apple M1 Pro, Apple M2, Rockchip ARMv8 Cortex-A76 4-Core

NovaCustom NV41 Qubes OS vCPU affinity 5 Systems - 60 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i7-1260P - 6GB - 78GB Fedora Linux 38 - 6.1.62-1.qubes.fc37.x86_64 - X Server 1.20.14
NovaCustom NV41 Qubes OS vCPU affinity Featured Processor Comparison	Intel Core i7-1260P - AMD Ryzen 5 5600X 6-Core
NovaCustom NV41 Qubes OS vCPU affinity 3 Systems - 60 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i7-1260P - 6GB - 78GB Fedora Linux 38 - 6.1.62-1.qubes.fc37.x86_64 - X Server 1.20.14
NovaCustom NV41 Qubes OS vCPU affinity 3 Systems - 60 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i7-1260P - 6GB - 78GB Fedora Linux 38 - 6.1.62-1.qubes.fc37.x86_64 - X Server 1.20.14
ok 3 Systems - 60 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i7-1260P - 6GB - 78GB Fedora Linux 38 - 6.1.62-1.qubes.fc37.x86_64 - X Server 1.20.14
ok 2 Systems - 60 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i7-1260P - 6GB - 78GB Fedora Linux 38 - 6.1.62-1.qubes.fc37.x86_64 - X Server 1.20.14
ok 1 System - 60 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i7-1260P - 6GB - 78GB Fedora Linux 38 - 6.1.62-1.qubes.fc37.x86_64 - X Server 1.20.14
Loongson-3A6000 + gsgpudrmfb + Loongson Loongson-LS3A6000-7A2000-1w-EVB-V1.21 (Loongson-UDK2018-V4.0.05494-stable202305 BIOS) 1 System - 6 Benchmark Results	Loongson-3A6000 - Loongson Loongson-LS3A6000-7A2000-1w-EVB-V1.21 - Loongson LLC Hyper Transport Bridge Loongnix 20 - 4.19.0-19-loongson-3 - X Server 1.20.4
cpuwkload2 2 Systems - 9 Benchmark Results	Intel Xeon E3-1245 v5 - Colorful And Development C.B250M-D - Intel Xeon E3-1200 v5 Ubuntu 22.04 - 6.2.0-36-generic - GNOME Shell 42.5
cpuwkload2 1 System - 9 Benchmark Results	Loongson-3A6000-HV - O.E.M - Loongson LLC Hyper Transport Bridge Loongnix 20 - 4.19.0-19-loongson-3 - X Server 1.20.4
AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D ECC@5200 - programmer 1 System - 76 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D 8-Core - ASUS ProArt B650-CREATOR - AMD Device 14d8 Debian 12 - 6.5.0-0.deb12.1-amd64 - Xfce 4.18
AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D ECC@5200 - compression 1 System - 60 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D 8-Core - ASUS ProArt B650-CREATOR - AMD Device 14d8 Debian 12 - 6.5.0-0.deb12.1-amd64 - Xfce 4.18
intel-4690k 13 Systems - 102 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i5-4690K - ASUS Z97-A-USB31 - Intel 4th Gen Core DRAM ManjaroLinux 18.0.1 - 4.19.12-1-MANJARO - Xfce 4.13
Xeon & EPYC Tests 17 Systems - 119 Benchmark Results	AMD EPYC 7K83 64-Core - Supermicro H12SSL-i v1.01 - AMD Starship Ubuntu 19.10 - 5.3.0-64-generic - GNOME Shell 3.34.1
bergamo-zstd 1 System - 14 Benchmark Results	2 x AMD EPYC 9754 128-Core - Dell PowerEdge R7625 [0H1TJT] - AMD Device 14a4 Ubuntu 22.04 - 6.1.44-custom - GCC 11.4.0

AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D Linux Review Benchmarks 5 Systems - 396 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i9-13900K - ASUS PRIME Z790-P WIFI - Intel Device 7a27 Ubuntu 23.04 - 6.2.0-060200rc8daily20230213-generic - GNOME Shell 43.2
AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 6850U AMD P-State Linux 6.3 Featured Processor Comparison	AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 6850U - LENOVO 21CM0001US - AMD Device 14b5 Ubuntu 22.10 - 6.3.0-060300rc5daily20230403-generic - GNOME Shell 43.1
5800X3D 2023 2 Systems - 201 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D 8-Core - ASUS ROG CROSSHAIR VIII HERO - AMD Starship Ubuntu 22.04 - 5.17.0-1019-oem - GNOME Shell 42.2
Apple M1 Pro Benchmarks with Test Logs Featured Compiler Comparison	Apple M1 Pro - Apple Virtualization Generic v1 - Apple Device f020 Ubuntu 22.04 - 5.15.0-70-generic - X Server
April 2023 AMD Zen 4 Linux Benchmarks Featured Processor Comparison	AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D 16-Core - ASUS ROG CROSSHAIR X670E HERO - AMD Device 14d8 Ubuntu 23.04 - 6.2.8-060208-generic - GNOME Shell 44.0
Raspberry Pi 400 vs. Orange Pi 5 Benchmarks 2 Systems - 286 Benchmark Results	Rockchip ARMv8 Cortex-A76 - Orange Pi 5 - 8GB Ubuntu 22.04 - 5.10.110-rockchip-rk3588 - Xfce 4.16
Linux 6.2: 240 Threads Featured Processor Comparison	Intel Xeon Platinum 8490H - Quanta Cloud S6Q-MB-MPS - Intel Device 1bce Ubuntu 23.04 - 6.1.0-16-generic - GNOME Shell 43.2
AMD Ryzen 5000 Series Linux Performance Featured Processor Comparison	AMD Ryzen 9 5900X 12-Core - ASUS ROG CROSSHAIR VIII HERO - AMD Starship Ubuntu 22.04 - 5.19.0-46-generic - GNOME Shell 42.5
zstd 1.5.4 apple m2 4 Systems - 14 Benchmark Results	Apple M2 - Apple MacBook Air - 8GB Arch rolling - 6.1.0-rc6-asahi-5-1-ARCH - KDE Plasma 5.26.3
3900xt 2023 2 Systems - 328 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 9 3900XT 12-Core - MSI MEG X570 GODLIKE - AMD Starship Ubuntu 22.04 - 5.15.0-53-generic - GNOME Shell 42.2
Raspberry Pi 400 vs. Orange Pi 5 Benchmarks 4 Systems - 286 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i7-2630QM - ASUS G73Sw v1.0 - Intel 2nd Generation Core DRAM ManjaroLinux 22.0.5 - 6.2.8-1-MANJARO - Cinnamon 5.6.8
zstd tigerlake 3 Systems - 14 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i7-1165G7 - Dell 0GG9PT - Intel Tiger Lake-LP Ubuntu 22.10 - 5.19.0-29-generic - GNOME Shell 43.0
xeon eo march 3 Systems - 231 Benchmark Results	2 x Intel Xeon Platinum 8380 - Intel M50CYP2SB2U - Intel Ice Lake IEH Ubuntu 22.10 - 6.2.0-rc5-phx-dodt - GNOME Shell 43.0
12600k 2023 intel alder lake 3 Systems - 191 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i5-12600K - ASUS PRIME Z690-P WIFI D4 - Intel Device 7aa7 Ubuntu 22.04 - 5.19.0-051900rc6daily20220716-generic - GNOME Shell 42.1
xxx 3 Systems - 237 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 7 4800U - ASRock 4X4-4000 - AMD Renoir Ubuntu 22.04 - 5.19.0-rc6-phx-retbleed - GNOME Shell 42.2

Zstd Compression

Project Site

Source Repository

Test Created

Last Updated

Test Maintainer

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Test Dependencies

Accolades

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Suites Using This Test

Performance Metrics

Zstd Compression 1.5.4

Compression Level: 19 - Compression Speed

Does It Scale Well With Increasing Cores?

Notable Instruction Set Usage

Tested CPU Architectures

Recent Test Results

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