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, 27 Seconds

Test Dependencies

C/C++ Compiler Toolchain

Accolades

100k+ Downloads + 5k+ Public Benchmark Results

Supported Platforms

Reported Installs **Public Result Uploads *Reported Test Completions **Test Profile Page Views ***OpenBenchmarking.orgEventsZstd Compression Popularity Statisticspts/compress-zstd2018.042018.062018.082018.102018.122019.022019.042019.062019.082019.102019.122020.022020.042020.062020.082020.102020.122021.022021.042021.062021.082021.102021.122022.022022.042022.062022.082022.102022.122023.022023.042023.062023.082023.102023.1214K28K42K56K70K
* 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 3 December 2023.
1214.5%19, Long Mode17.2%1917.6%8, Long Mode13.5%813.1%312.4%3, Long Mode11.7%Compression Level Option PopularityOpenBenchmarking.org

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 950 public results since 10 February 2023 with the latest data as of 3 December 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
18
24.5 +/- 1.2
AMD Ryzen 9 7900X3D 12-Core
99th
15
23.8 +/- 1.6
AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D 8-Core
96th
13
22.9 +/- 1.3
AMD Ryzen 9 7900X 12-Core
94th
25
22.0 +/- 1.2
AMD Ryzen 9 7900 12-Core
92nd
19
21.2 +/- 0.5
2 x AMD EPYC 9534 64-Core
84th
4
19.3 +/- 0.3
AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D 8-Core
83rd
12
19.0 +/- 0.5
2 x AMD EPYC 7373X 16-Core
82nd
4
18.8 +/- 0.2
AMD Ryzen 5 7600X 6-Core
82nd
11
18.5 +/- 1.2
AMD Ryzen 7 7700 8-Core
80th
8
18.2
AMD EPYC 9654 96-Core
79th
9
18.0 +/- 0.9
2 x AMD EPYC 7573X 32-Core
79th
5
18.0
AMD EPYC 7773X 64-Core
76th
4
17.6
Mid-Tier
75th
< 17.6
AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 5965WX 24-Cores
74th
4
17.3
2 x AMD EPYC 7773X 64-Core
73rd
16
17.2 +/- 0.7
Intel Core i9-10850K
73rd
6
17.2 +/- 0.6
2 x AMD EPYC 9554 64-Core
71st
3
16.7 +/- 0.3
AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3970X 32-Core
71st
3
16.7 +/- 0.1
AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3960X 24-Core
70th
3
16.4 +/- 0.1
AMD Ryzen 7 5800X 8-Core
68th
7
15.9 +/- 0.2
Intel Core i5-12600K
68th
3
15.8
AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 12-Core
67th
3
15.6 +/- 1.9
2 x Intel Xeon Platinum 8490H
66th
12
15.3 +/- 0.9
AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X 64-Core
66th
3
15.3
AMD Ryzen 9 3900XT 12-Core
66th
4
15.1 +/- 0.1
AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX
65th
4
14.7 +/- 0.1
2 x Intel Xeon Platinum 8380
64th
7
14.5 +/- 0.2
Intel Core i7-11700B
61st
4
13.9 +/- 0.5
2 x AMD EPYC 9754 128-Core
60th
4
13.6 +/- 0.1
Apple M2
59th
4
13.4
AMD Ryzen 5 5600G
59th
5
13.3 +/- 0.6
AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS
59th
3
13.3 +/- 1.1
Intel Core i9-10980XE
59th
4
13.2 +/- 0.1
Intel Core i5-12400
58th
6
13.1 +/- 0.7
Intel Xeon W-2295
57th
4
12.9
Intel Core i7-8700K
57th
4
12.9 +/- 0.6
Intel Core i7-5960X
57th
3
12.9
2 x Intel Xeon Gold 5220R
56th
6
12.8 +/- 0.1
2 x Intel Xeon E5-2680 v2
54th
4
12.7 +/- 0.2
AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX
54th
4
12.6 +/- 0.8
Intel Xeon E-2388G
52nd
10
12.3
Median
50th
12.2
AMD Ryzen 7 7840U
48th
8
11.9 +/- 0.8
AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme
46th
11
11.7 +/- 1.5
AMD Ryzen 7 2700X Eight-Core
46th
4
11.5
AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 7840U
43rd
10
11.3 +/- 0.1
Intel Xeon Silver 4216
41st
3
11.1
AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U
41st
7
11.1
Intel Xeon E-2336
39th
5
10.9 +/- 0.1
2 x Intel Xeon E5-2680 v3
35th
4
10.5 +/- 0.1
AMD EPYC 7551 32-Core
30th
3
10.2 +/- 0.1
Ampere ARMv8 Neoverse-N1 256-Core
28th
4
10.1 +/- 0.2
Intel Core i7-8809G
27th
3
10.1 +/- 0.1
AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 6850U
26th
24
10.0 +/- 1.0
Low-Tier
25th
< 9.9
AMD Ryzen 5 5500U
23rd
4
9.5 +/- 0.3
Intel Core i7-1165G7
23rd
6
9.5 +/- 0.7
Intel Core i7-1185G7
20th
3
9.1 +/- 0.3
Intel Core i5-10500
19th
7
9.1
AMD Ryzen 5 4500U
19th
3
9.1 +/- 0.1
AMD Ryzen 7 4700U
18th
3
9.0 +/- 0.4
AMD EPYC 7251 8-Core
17th
3
8.9 +/- 0.4
AMD Ryzen 7 4800U
16th
3
8.8
Intel Core i7-1065G7
14th
3
8.3 +/- 1.0
Intel Core i7-8565U
13th
4
7.2 +/- 0.1
Intel Core i5-4430
11th
3
6.3
Intel Core i5-6500T
10th
3
5.8 +/- 0.1
Rockchip ARMv8 Cortex-A76 4-Core
9th
6
5.7 +/- 0.2
Intel Core i5-6260U
6th
4
4.0
ARMv8 Cortex-A72 4-Core
2nd
5
1.8 +/- 0.1
OpenBenchmarking.orgDistribution Of Public Results - Compression Level: 19 - Compression Speed946 Results Range From 0 To 27 MB/s36912151821242730333660120180240300

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.

OpenBenchmarking.orgMinutesTime Required To Complete BenchmarkCompression Level: 19 - Compression SpeedRun-Time510152025Min: 3 / Avg: 5.77 / Max: 22

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

OpenBenchmarking.orgPercent, Fewer Is BetterAverage Deviation Between RunsCompression Level: 19 - Compression SpeedDeviation246810Min: 0 / Avg: 0.39 / Max: 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.

IntelAMDOpenBenchmarking.orgRelative Core Scaling To BaseZstd Compression CPU Core ScalingCompression Level: 19 - Compression Speed468121632641280.68331.36662.04992.73323.4165

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)
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 Bulldozer (2011).
 
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
Loongson LoongArch 64-bit
loongarch64
Loongson-3A6000-HV
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

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