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

14 May 2021

Test Maintainer

Michael Larabel

Test Type

Processor

Average Install Time

1 Minute, 3 Seconds

Average Run Time

7 Minutes, 27 Seconds

Test Dependencies

C/C++ Compiler Toolchain

Accolades

60k+ Downloads

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 current as of 16 June 2021.

Revision History

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 1.5.0

Compression Level: 3 - Compression Speed

OpenBenchmarking.org metrics for this test profile configuration based on 287 public results since 14 May 2021 with the latest data as of 17 June 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

# Compatible Public Results

MB/s (Average)

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3970X 32-Core

98th

6004 ^{+/- 27}

2 x AMD EPYC 74F3 24-Core

95th

5571 ^{+/- 407}

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3960X 24-Core

94th

5529 ^{+/- 27}

AMD Ryzen 9 5900X 12-Core

90th

5250 ^{+/- 12}

AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 16-Core

90th

5250 ^{+/- 500}

AMD Ryzen 7 5800X 8-Core

82nd

3909 ^{+/- 46}

AMD Ryzen 9 3950X 16-Core

80th

3803 ^{+/- 352}

2 x AMD EPYC 7453 28-Core

80th

3782 ^{+/- 236}

AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 12-Core

80th

3674 ^{+/- 50}

AMD Ryzen 5 5600X 6-Core

78th

3617 ^{+/- 18}

Intel Core i9-10980XE

77th

3601 ^{+/- 16}

Intel Core i9-7980XE

76th

3524 ^{+/- 30}

Mid-Tier

75th

< 3509

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2970WX 24-Core

73rd

3119 ^{+/- 247}

AMD Ryzen 9 3900XT 12-Core

72nd

3004 ^{+/- 36}

AMD Ryzen 7 3800XT 8-Core

70th

2975 ^{+/- 23}

Intel Xeon Silver 4216

67th

2889 ^{+/- 5}

AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 8-Core

67th

2889 ^{+/- 30}

Intel Core i7-7900X

65th

2735 ^{+/- 23}

AMD Ryzen 5 3600XT 6-Core

62nd

2723 ^{+/- 15}

Intel Core i9-11900K

57th

2647 ^{+/- 104}

Intel Core i7-1165G7

57th

2629 ^{+/- 9}

Intel Core i9-9900KS

53rd

2375 ^{+/- 57}

Ampere Altra ARMv8 Neoverse-N1 160-Core

51st

2283 ^{+/- 52}

AMD EPYC 7551 32-Core

51st

2207 ^{+/- 14}

Median

50th

2206

Intel Core i7-10700T

49th

2144 ^{+/- 11}

AMD Ryzen 3 3300X 4-Core

47th

2124 ^{+/- 15}

Intel Xeon E-2288G

44th

2079 ^{+/- 19}

Intel Core i5-8400

42nd

2064 ^{+/- 26}

Intel Core i7-8086K

40th

1956 ^{+/- 17}

AMD Ryzen 7 1700 Eight-Core

39th

1788 ^{+/- 4}

AMD Ryzen 7 2700 Eight-Core

38th

1761 ^{+/- 8}

Intel Core i7-9750H

36th

1662 ^{+/- 117}

Intel Core i7-7700K

36th

1660 ^{+/- 10}

Intel Core i7-1065G7

35th

1592 ^{+/- 46}

AMD Ryzen 5 4500U

33rd

1449 ^{+/- 7}

Intel Core i3-8100

31st

1367 ^{+/- 20}

Intel Xeon E3-1245 v5

31st

1355 ^{+/- 11}

Intel Xeon E3-1260L v5

28th

1268 ^{+/- 16}

Intel Core i5-6500

26th

1242 ^{+/- 14}

Intel Xeon E3-1235L v5

26th

1240 ^{+/- 13}

Low-Tier

25th

< 1231

AMD Ryzen 5 5500U

25th

1227 ^{+/- 81}

AMD Ryzen 3 2200G

24th

1177 ^{+/- 13}

AMD FX-8150 Eight-Core

23rd

1136 ^{+/- 16}

Intel Xeon E3-1270 v5

21st

1117 ^{+/- 14}

Intel Core i7-4770K

19th

1056 ^{+/- 22}

Intel Core i3-10100

16th

935 ^{+/- 14}

Intel Core i7-8565U

15th

923 ^{+/- 18}

Intel Core i7-8550U

14th

901 ^{+/- 3}

AMD Ryzen 5 3400G

13th

855 ^{+/- 1}

AMD Ryzen 5 2400G

12th

832 ^{+/- 7}

Intel Core i3-7100

6th

645 ^{+/- 18}

AMD Ryzen 3 3200U

4th

511 ^{+/- 7}

Intel Core i3-4130

3rd

82 ^{+/- 4}

Based on OpenBenchmarking.org data, the selected test / test configuration (Zstd Compression 1.5.0 - Compression Level: 3 - Compression Speed) has an average run-time of 2 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 CVTSI2SD MULSD DIVSD SUBSD CVTTSD2SI ADDSD MOVDQU MOVD PUNPCKLQDQ PSHUFD PADDQ MOVDQA PSRLDQ PMULUDQ SHUFPD PUNPCKHQDQ MINSD

Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX)

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

VBROADCASTSD VEXTRACTF128 VZEROUPPER VINSERTF128

Advanced Vector Extensions 2 (AVX2)

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

VPBROADCASTQ VINSERTI128 VPBROADCASTD VPSLLVD VEXTRACTI128 VPBROADCASTW VPERMQ VPBROADCASTB VPERM2I128 VPERMD VPBLENDD

FMA (FMA)

VFMADD132SD

The test / benchmark does honor compiler flag changes.

Last automated analysis: 10 May 2021

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

5600x june 3 Systems - 65 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 5 5600X 6-Core - ASUS TUF GAMING B550M-PLUS - AMD Starship Ubuntu 20.10 - 5.8.0-50-generic - GNOME Shell 3.38.1
3960X June 3 Systems - 70 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3960X 24-Core - MSI Creator TRX40 - AMD Starship Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.12.0-051200rc2daily20210307-generic - GNOME Shell 3.36.4
2970wx june 3 Systems - 56 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2970WX 24-Core - Gigabyte X399 AORUS Gaming 7 - AMD 17h Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.9.0-050900rc6daily20200926-generic - GNOME Shell 3.36.4
Compiler Optimization Levels 2 Systems - 118 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i9-11900K - ASUS ROG MAXIMUS XIII HERO - Intel Tiger Lake-H Fedora 34 - 5.12.9-300.fc34.x86_64 - GNOME Shell 40.1
3600x june 3 Systems - 62 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 5 3600XT 6-Core - MSI X470 GAMING M7 AC - AMD Starship Ubuntu 20.10 - 5.8.0-50-generic - GNOME Shell 3.38.1
Raspberry Pi Model 4 Benchmarks 7 Systems - 28 Benchmark Results	ARMv7 rev 4 - BCM2835 Raspberry Pi 3 Model B Plus Rev 1.3 - 926MB Raspbian 10 - 4.19.42-v7+ - X Server 1.20.4
1260L June 3 Systems - 177 Benchmark Results	Intel Xeon E3-1260L v5 - ASRock E3V5 WS - Intel Xeon E3-1200 v5 Ubuntu 20.10 - 5.8.0-41-generic - GNOME Shell 3.38.1
multicore-40c-dedicated 1 System - 240 Benchmark Results	2 x Intel Xeon - OpenStack Foundation Nova v21.0.0 - Intel 440FX 82441FX PMC Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.4.0-74-generic - GCC 9.3.0
multicore-40c-shared 1 System - 241 Benchmark Results	2 x Intel Xeon - OpenStack Foundation Nova v21.0.0 - Intel 440FX 82441FX PMC Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.4.0-74-generic - GCC 9.3.0
5800x june 4 Systems - 50 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 7 5800X 8-Core - ASRock X570 Pro4 - AMD Starship Ubuntu 20.10 - 5.12.0-rc5-nopsf - GNOME Shell 3.38.1
3900X June 3 Systems - 83 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 12-Core - ASUS TUF GAMING X570-PLUS - AMD Starship Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.11.0-rc1-phx - GNOME Shell 3.36.4
7100 june 3 Systems - 117 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i3-7100 - Gigabyte B250M-DS3H-CF - Intel Xeon E3-1200 v6 Ubuntu 20.10 - 5.8.0-48-generic - GNOME Shell 3.38.1

2700 june 3 Systems - 21 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 7 2700 Eight-Core - Gigabyte AB350N-Gaming WIFI-CF - AMD 17h Ubuntu 19.10 - 5.9.0-050900rc7daily20201004-generic - GNOME Shell 3.34.1
Xeon Platinum 8380 Linux 5.13 Kernel Tests Featured Kernel Comparison	2 x Intel Xeon Platinum 8380 - Intel M50CYP2SB2U - Intel Device 0998 Ubuntu 21.04 - 5.13.0-051300rc3daily20210526-generic - GNOME Shell 3.38.4
7100 june 3 Systems - 117 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i3-7100 - Gigabyte B250M-DS3H-CF - Intel Xeon E3-1200 v6 Ubuntu 20.10 - 5.8.0-48-generic - GNOME Shell 3.38.1
zstd 1.5 5900x 4 Systems - 11 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 9 5900X 12-Core - ASUS ROG CROSSHAIR VIII HERO - AMD Starship Ubuntu 21.04 - 5.11.0-16-generic - GNOME Shell 3.38.4
10100 sunny 3 Systems - 32 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i3-10100 - Gigabyte B460M DS3H - Intel Device 9b63 Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.9.0-050900rc7daily20201002-generic - GNOME Shell 3.36.3
3900X June 3 Systems - 83 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 12-Core - ASUS TUF GAMING X570-PLUS - AMD Starship Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.11.0-rc1-phx - GNOME Shell 3.36.4
Ampere Altra Q80-33 2P 3 Systems - 37 Benchmark Results	Ampere Altra ARMv8 Neoverse-N1 - WIWYNN Mt.Jade - Ampere Computing LLC Device e100 Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.11.0-051100-generic-64k - GNOME Shell 3.36.4
fx 8150 2021 3 Systems - 107 Benchmark Results	AMD FX-8150 Eight-Core - ASUS M5A78L-M LX PLUS - AMD RS780 + SB7x0 Ubuntu 20.10 - 5.8.0-33-generic - GNOME Shell 3.38.1
renoir gromacs zstd 3 Systems - 13 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 5 4500U - LENOVO LNVNB161216 - AMD Renoir Root Complex Ubuntu 20.10 - 5.8.0-53-generic - GNOME Shell 3.38.1
3400g zstd 1.5 3 Systems - 13 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 5 3400G - ASUS PRIME B450M-A - AMD Raven Ubuntu 19.10 - 5.3.0-46-generic - GNOME Shell 3.34.1
2200G May 2021 4 Systems - 193 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 3 2200G - ASUS PRIME B350M-E - AMD Raven Ubuntu 20.10 - 5.8.0-38-generic - GNOME Shell 3.38.1
xeon zstd 1.5 4 Systems - 12 Benchmark Results	Intel Xeon E-2288G - Compulab SBC-ATCFL v1.2 - Intel Cannon Lake PCH Ubuntu 20.10 - 5.8.0-41-generic - GNOME Shell 3.38.2

Zstd Compression

Project Site

Test Created

Last Updated

Test Maintainer

Test Type

Average Install Time

Average Run Time

Test Dependencies

Accolades

Supported Platforms

Revision History

Suites Using This Test

Performance Metrics

Zstd Compression 1.5.0

Compression Level: 3 - Compression Speed

Does It Scale Well With Increasing Cores?

Notable Instruction Set Usage

Recent Test Results

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