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, 18 Seconds

Average Run Time

25 Minutes, 7 Seconds

Test Dependencies

C/C++ Compiler Toolchain

Accolades

80k+ Downloads + 5k+ Public Benchmark Results

Supported Platforms

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 556 public results since 10 February 2023 with the latest data as of 28 May 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

25.5 ^{+/- 0.3}

AMD Ryzen 9 7900X3D 12-Core

100th

25.3 ^{+/- 0.5}

AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D 8-Core

98th

23.8 ^{+/- 0.1}

AMD Ryzen 9 7900X 12-Core

97th

23.4

AMD Ryzen 9 7950X 16-Core

95th

22.6 ^{+/- 1.5}

AMD Ryzen 9 7900 12-Core

94th

21.5 ^{+/- 1.0}

AMD Ryzen 7 7700X 8-Core

94th

21.2 ^{+/- 1.0}

Intel Core i9-13900K

93rd

20.6 ^{+/- 0.2}

AMD Ryzen 5 7600X 6-Core

90th

20.4

2 x AMD EPYC 9534 64-Core

86th

19.3 ^{+/- 0.3}

AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D 8-Core

85th

19.0 ^{+/- 0.1}

2 x AMD EPYC 7373X 16-Core

83rd

18.8 ^{+/- 0.2}

AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 16-Core

80th

18.1 ^{+/- 1.5}

AMD EPYC 9654 96-Core

80th

18.0 ^{+/- 0.9}

2 x AMD EPYC 7573X 32-Core

80th

18.0

2 x AMD EPYC 9654 96-Core

80th

17.9 ^{+/- 1.2}

AMD EPYC 7773X 64-Core

79th

17.6

Mid-Tier

75th

< 17.3

2 x AMD EPYC 7773X 64-Core

75th

17.2 ^{+/- 0.7}

Intel Core i9-10850K

75th

16.9

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3970X 32-Core

73rd

16.7 ^{+/- 0.1}

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3960X 24-Core

71st

16.4 ^{+/- 0.1}

Intel Core i9-11900K

71st

16.4 ^{+/- 0.6}

AMD Ryzen 7 5800X 8-Core

71st

16.1 ^{+/- 0.1}

Intel Core i5-12600K

69th

15.8

2 x Intel Xeon Platinum 8490H

68th

15.3 ^{+/- 0.9}

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X 64-Core

68th

15.3

AMD Ryzen 9 3900XT 12-Core

67th

15.1 ^{+/- 0.1}

AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX

66th

14.7 ^{+/- 0.1}

2 x Intel Xeon Platinum 8380

65th

14.4 ^{+/- 0.1}

Intel Core i7-11700B

62nd

13.9 ^{+/- 0.5}

Apple M2

60th

13.4

AMD Ryzen 5 5600G

60th

13.4 ^{+/- 0.7}

Intel Core i7-8700K

59th

13.2 ^{+/- 0.2}

Intel Core i9-10980XE

59th

13.2 ^{+/- 0.1}

Intel Xeon W-2295

57th

12.9

Intel Core i5-12400

57th

12.9 ^{+/- 0.6}

2 x Intel Xeon Gold 5220R

56th

12.8 ^{+/- 0.1}

AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX

52nd

12.2 ^{+/- 0.1}

Median

50th

12.0

AMD Ryzen 7 2700X Eight-Core

46th

11.5

AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U

43rd

11.1 ^{+/- 0.1}

Intel Core i7-1280P

40th

11.0 ^{+/- 1.2}

AMD EPYC 7551 32-Core

32nd

10.2 ^{+/- 0.1}

Intel Core i7-1165G7

30th

10.1 ^{+/- 0.2}

Ampere ARMv8 Neoverse-N1 256-Core

29th

10.1 ^{+/- 0.2}

Intel Core i7-8809G

29th

10.1 ^{+/- 0.1}

AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 6850U

29th

10.1 ^{+/- 1.2}

Low-Tier

25th

< 9.7

AMD Ryzen 5 5500U

25th

9.5 ^{+/- 0.3}

Intel Core i7-1185G7

20th

9.1 ^{+/- 0.3}

AMD Ryzen 5 4500U

20th

9.1 ^{+/- 0.1}

AMD Ryzen 7 4700U

19th

9.0 ^{+/- 0.4}

AMD EPYC 7251 8-Core

18th

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

9th

5.8 ^{+/- 0.1}

Rockchip ARMv8 Cortex-A76 4-Core

8th

5.6 ^{+/- 0.1}

Intel Core i5-6260U

4th

4.0

ARMv8 Cortex-A72 4-Core

3rd

1.9

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?

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 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)

ARMv8 64-bit

arm64

Apple M2 Max

ARMv8 64-bit

aarch64

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

POWER9 vs. Intel Xeon vs. AMD EPYC Linux Benchmarks 15 Systems - 30 Benchmark Results	POWER9 altivec supported - PowerNV T2P9D01 REV 1.01 - 131072MB Debian testing - 4.17.0 - X Server 1.19.6
POWER9 vs. Intel Xeon vs. AMD EPYC Linux Benchmarks 15 Systems - 30 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i7-2600K - Intel ENB7510H.86A.0026.2012.0329.1439 - Intel 2nd Generation Core Family DRAM neon 18.04 - 5.3.0-26-generic - KDE Frameworks 5
test_1 1 System - 4 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i5-12500H - HP 8A25 v34.60 - Intel Alder Lake PCH EndeavourOS rolling - 6.3.5-273-tkg-pds - X Server 1.21.1.8
result-phoronix 2 Systems - 43 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 16-Core - MSI MPG X570 GAMING EDGE WIFI - AMD Starship ManjaroLinux 22.1.3 - 6.3.3-1-MANJARO - X Server 1.21.1.8
result-phoronix 1 System - 43 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 16-Core - MSI MPG X570 GAMING EDGE WIFI - AMD Starship ManjaroLinux 22.1.3 - 6.3.3-1-MANJARO - X Server 1.21.1.8
9654-zstd 1 System - 13 Benchmark Results	2 x AMD EPYC 9654 96-Core - Supermicro H13DSH v0123456789 - AMD Device 14a4 Ubuntu 22.04 - 6.1.0-1013-oem - X Server
"Intel / AMD Large Ubuntu Linux CPU Benchmark Comparison" 81 Systems - 23 Benchmark Results	Intel Pentium G3258 - Gigabyte H97M-D3H - Intel 4th Gen Core DRAM Ubuntu 18.04 - 4.17.0-999-generic - GCC 8.1.0
123 1 System - 41 Benchmark Results	Phytium D2000/8 E8C - Greatwall GW-XXXXXX-XXX v1.0 - 1 x 8192 MB DDR4-2668MT Kylin v10 - 5.4.18-87-generic - X Server 1.20.8
bla 1 System - 2 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 5 7600X 6-Core - MSI MAG B650M MORTAR WIFI - AMD Device 14d8 Arch Linux - 6.3.2-arch1-1 - GCC 13.1.1 20230429
bla 2 Systems - 73 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i7-3930K - Gigabyte X79-UD3 - Intel Xeon E5 Arch rolling - 6.2.12-arch1-1 - X Server
prog 1 System - 76 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 7 7700X 8-Core - MSI MAG X670E TOMAHAWK WIFI - AMD Device 14d8 Arch rolling - 6.3.3-arch1-1 - KDE Plasma 5.27.5
23Q2 CPU Benchmarks 53 Systems - 144 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i5-6260U - Intel NUC6i5SYB - Intel Xeon E3-1200 v5 Ubuntu 22.04 - 5.19.0-41-generic - GNOME Shell 42.5
Loongson-Archlinux-2022-07-12 6 Systems - 42 Benchmark Results	Loongson-3A5000-HV - Loongson Loongson-LS3A5000-7A2000-1w-EVB-V1.21 - Loongson LLC Hyper Transport Bridge Loongnix 20 - 4.19.0-18-loongson-3 - X Server 1.20.11
23Q2 CPU Benchmarks 52 Systems - 144 Benchmark Results	AMD Custom APU 0405 - QEMU Standard PC - Intel 82G33 Ubuntu 22.04 - 5.19.0-41-generic - GNOME Shell 42.5
Loongson-Archlinux-2022-07-12 5 Systems - 42 Benchmark Results	AMD Phenom II X4 955 - MSI 785GM-E65 - AMD RS880 + SB7x0 Arch Linux - 5.18.12-arch1-1 - GCC 12.1.0

AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D Linux Review Benchmarks 5 Systems - 396 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D 16-Core - ASUS ROG CROSSHAIR X670E HERO - AMD Device 14d8 Ubuntu 23.04 - 6.2.0-060200rc8daily20230213-generic - GNOME Shell 43.2
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
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
zstd onnx runtime raptor lake 4 Systems - 50 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i9-13900K - ASUS PRIME Z790-P WIFI - Intel Device 7a27 Ubuntu 23.04 - 5.19.0-21-generic - GNOME Shell 43.2
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
onnx runtime zstd 4 Systems - 50 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 6850U - LENOVO 21CM0001US - AMD Device 14b5 Ubuntu 22.10 - 6.1.0-060100rc2daily20221028-generic - GNOME Shell 43.0
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
zstd 1.5.4 3 Systems - 14 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 7 4700U - LENOVO LNVNB161216 - AMD Renoir Ubuntu 22.04 - 5.18.8-051808-generic - GNOME Shell 42.2
2023 tigerlake 3 Systems - 100 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i7-1185G7 - Dell 0DXP1F - Intel Tiger Lake-LP Ubuntu 22.04 - 5.18.8-051808-generic - GNOME Shell 42.2
newnew whiskey 4 Systems - 23 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i7-8565U - Dell 0KTW76 - Intel Cannon Point-LP Ubuntu 22.04 - 5.19.0-rc6-phx-retbleed - GNOME Shell 42.2
7900 zstd 3 Systems - 14 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 9 7900 12-Core - Gigabyte B650M DS3H - AMD Device 14d8 Ubuntu 22.10 - 6.2.0-060200rc5daily20230129-generic - GNOME Shell 43.0
zstd-new 3 Systems - 14 Benchmark Results	2 x Intel Xeon Platinum 8490H - Quanta Cloud S6Q-MB-MPS - Intel Device 1bce Ubuntu 22.04 - 6.2.0-060200rc7daily20230208-generic - GNOME Shell 42.2
9654 new 9 Systems - 179 Benchmark Results	AMD EPYC 9654 96-Core - AMD Titanite_4G - AMD Device 14a4 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.1 - 5.14.0-162.6.1.el9_1.x86_64 - GNOME Shell 40.10
zstd 1.5.4 amd threadripper 3 Systems - 14 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X 64-Core - Gigabyte TRX40 AORUS PRO WIFI - AMD Starship Ubuntu 23.04 - 6.2.0-060200rc7daily20230206-generic - GNOME Shell 43.2
zstd epyc genoa 3 Systems - 14 Benchmark Results	2 x AMD EPYC 9654 96-Core - AMD Titanite_4G - AMD Device 14a4 Ubuntu 22.10 - 6.2.0-rc3-phx-tip-x86-cpu - GNOME Shell 43.1

Zstd Compression

Project Site

Source Repository

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 1.5.4

Compression Level: 19 - Compression Speed

Does It Scale Well With Increasing Cores?

Notable Instruction Set Usage

Tested CPU Architectures

Recent Test Results

Most Popular Test Results