lzbench

lzbench is an in-memory benchmark of various compressors. The file used for compression is a Linux kernel source tree tarball.

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

Project Site

github.com

Test Created

8 August 2017

Last Updated

21 January 2021

Test Maintainer

Michael Larabel

Test Type

Processor

Average Install Time

54 Seconds

Average Run Time

3 Minutes, 30 Seconds

Test Dependencies

C/C++ Compiler Toolchain

Accolades

50k+ 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 updated weekly as of 22 November 2023.

Revision History

pts/lzbench-1.1.1 [View Source] Thu, 21 Jan 2021 10:32:16 GMT
Update against point release for build fix.

pts/lzbench-1.1.0 [View Source] Fri, 28 Feb 2020 17:25:44 GMT
Update against upstream lzbench 1.8, add Windows support.

pts/lzbench-1.0.0 [View Source] Tue, 08 Aug 2017 14:58:27 GMT
Initial commit of an lzbench test profile, an in-memory compressor comparison benchmark.

Suites Using This Test

Compression Tests

CPU Massive

Single-Threaded

Performance Metrics

Analyze Test Configuration:

lzbench 1.8

Test: Zstd 1 - Process: Decompression

OpenBenchmarking.org metrics for this test profile configuration based on 1,106 public results since 28 February 2020 with the latest data as of 26 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 7 7700X 8-Core

100th

2865 ^{+/- 35}

AMD Ryzen 9 7950X 16-Core

100th

2810 ^{+/- 46}

Intel Core i9-12900K

99th

2503 ^{+/- 31}

Intel Core i9-11900K

99th

2412 ^{+/- 133}

Intel Core i7-12700H

97th

2296 ^{+/- 7}

Intel Core i5-11600K

95th

2220 ^{+/- 61}

AMD Ryzen 5 5600X 6-Core

95th

2218 ^{+/- 10}

Intel Core i5-12400

94th

2185 ^{+/- 6}

AMD Ryzen 7 5800X 8-Core

94th

2184 ^{+/- 131}

AMD Ryzen 9 5900X 12-Core

93rd

2153 ^{+/- 181}

AMD Ryzen 5 5600G

91st

2065 ^{+/- 84}

AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U

89th

2011 ^{+/- 105}

Intel Xeon E-2288G

89th

2004 ^{+/- 15}

Intel Core i7-1165G7

89th

1998 ^{+/- 81}

Intel Core i9-10885H

88th

1983 ^{+/- 36}

Intel Core i5-10600K

87th

1934 ^{+/- 172}

Intel Core i7-8700K

86th

1912 ^{+/- 29}

Intel Core i9-10900K

85th

1859 ^{+/- 220}

Intel Core i7-7740K

84th

1821 ^{+/- 171}

AMD Ryzen 7 3800XT 8-Core

83rd

1800 ^{+/- 4}

Intel Core i3-10105

83rd

1796 ^{+/- 116}

Intel Core i7-7700K

81st

1759 ^{+/- 187}

Intel Core i3-10100

78th

1729 ^{+/- 145}

Intel Core i7-7900X

77th

1708 ^{+/- 1}

Intel Core i9-7980XE

77th

1707 ^{+/- 153}

Mid-Tier

75th

< 1695

Intel Core i5-10210U

75th

1694 ^{+/- 5}

Intel Core i9-9900K

74th

1678 ^{+/- 173}

AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 4750U

74th

1677 ^{+/- 29}

AMD Ryzen 9 3900XT 12-Core

74th

1671 ^{+/- 105}

AMD Ryzen 5 1600 Six-Core

73rd

1664 ^{+/- 3}

Intel Core i9-10980XE

73rd

1660 ^{+/- 243}

AMD Ryzen 9 3950X 16-Core

73rd

1657 ^{+/- 118}

AMD Ryzen 3 3300X 4-Core

72nd

1640 ^{+/- 119}

AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 12-Core

71st

1629 ^{+/- 167}

AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 8-Core

71st

1622 ^{+/- 179}

Intel Xeon E3-1275 v6

71st

1612 ^{+/- 193}

Intel Core i5-7600K

71st

1609 ^{+/- 196}

Intel Xeon E-2278GEL

71st

1608 ^{+/- 2}

Intel Core i7-9750H

70th

1606 ^{+/- 178}

Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5

69th

1602 ^{+/- 3}

Intel Xeon E3-1260L v5

69th

1601 ^{+/- 5}

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X 64-Core

69th

1598 ^{+/- 118}

Intel Core i7-8565U

69th

1597 ^{+/- 166}

Intel Xeon E3-1270 v5

68th

1586 ^{+/- 7}

Intel Xeon E3-1245 v5

68th

1580 ^{+/- 1}

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2950X 16-Core

65th

1571 ^{+/- 125}

Intel Core i7-10700T

65th

1565 ^{+/- 2}

Intel Core i7-6800K

63rd

1551 ^{+/- 9}

Intel Core i5-8400

62nd

1548 ^{+/- 186}

AMD Ryzen 7 1800X Eight-Core

62nd

1543 ^{+/- 1}

Intel Core i3-7100

62nd

1542 ^{+/- 118}

AMD Ryzen 5 3400G

61st

1537 ^{+/- 140}

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2990WX 32-Core

60th

1519 ^{+/- 105}

AMD EPYC 7F52 16-Core

58th

1503 ^{+/- 106}

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2970WX 24-Core

58th

1503 ^{+/- 116}

Intel Core i7-4770K

58th

1502 ^{+/- 142}

AMD Ryzen 7 2700X Eight-Core

57th

1489 ^{+/- 182}

Intel Core i5-9400F

56th

1478 ^{+/- 204}

AMD Ryzen 7 4800U

55th

1463 ^{+/- 9}

AMD Ryzen 7 2700 Eight-Core

54th

1462 ^{+/- 132}

AMD Ryzen 3 1300X

54th

1454 ^{+/- 20}

Intel Xeon E5-1680 v3

53rd

1447 ^{+/- 143}

AMD Ryzen 7 4700U

53rd

1435 ^{+/- 2}

Intel Core i7-5775C

53rd

1432 ^{+/- 131}

AMD EPYC 7K83 64-Core

51st

1400 ^{+/- 20}

Median

50th

1400

AMD Ryzen 3 3200G

50th

1391 ^{+/- 201}

AMD Ryzen 5 2400G

48th

1358 ^{+/- 134}

Intel Core i3-8100

48th

1349 ^{+/- 188}

AMD Ryzen 3 2200G

48th

1349 ^{+/- 116}

2 x Intel Xeon Gold 5220R

46th

1336 ^{+/- 200}

Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3

45th

1323 ^{+/- 130}

Intel Core i5-4430

43rd

1305 ^{+/- 2}

AMD EPYC 7702 64-Core

43rd

1302 ^{+/- 80}

Intel Core i5-6500

43rd

1300 ^{+/- 124}

Intel Core i7-3770K

42nd

1279 ^{+/- 132}

AMD Ryzen 3 3200U

42nd

1278 ^{+/- 102}

AMD Athlon Gold 3150U

40th

1260 ^{+/- 13}

Intel Core i7-5600U

40th

1255 ^{+/- 127}

2 x Intel Xeon Platinum 8280

40th

1249 ^{+/- 166}

Intel Core i5-3470

39th

1247 ^{+/- 1}

AMD Ryzen 7 1700 Eight-Core

39th

1242 ^{+/- 104}

2 x AMD EPYC 7742 64-Core

39th

1241 ^{+/- 97}

Intel Core i5-2500K

38th

1234 ^{+/- 29}

Intel Xeon E3-1235L v5

37th

1228 ^{+/- 1}

Intel Core i7-4960X

37th

1226 ^{+/- 150}

Intel Xeon Platinum 8280

36th

1219 ^{+/- 12}

Intel Xeon Gold 5220R

34th

1186 ^{+/- 10}

Intel Xeon Gold 5218

34th

1183 ^{+/- 27}

AMD EPYC 7601 32-Core

31st

1160 ^{+/- 88}

2 x AMD EPYC 7601 32-Core

30th

1150 ^{+/- 106}

2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6226R

30th

1147 ^{+/- 10}

Intel Core i7-5960X

28th

1141 ^{+/- 9}

Low-Tier

25th

< 1120

2 x Intel Xeon E5-2680 v2

25th

1112 ^{+/- 165}

AMD EPYC 7232P 8-Core

25th

1108 ^{+/- 1}

Intel Core i7-2700K

24th

1095 ^{+/- 123}

2 x AMD EPYC 7252 8-Core

23rd

1084 ^{+/- 3}

2 x Intel Xeon Platinum 8272CL

23rd

1080 ^{+/- 7}

Intel Core i7-4558U

23rd

1080 ^{+/- 2}

AMD EPYC 7551 32-Core

22nd

1062 ^{+/- 104}

2 x Intel Xeon Platinum 8259L

21st

1028 ^{+/- 5}

Intel Core i5-4200U

20th

1012 ^{+/- 4}

Intel Core i7-10700K

20th

1011 ^{+/- 23}

2 x Intel Xeon Silver 4216

17th

948 ^{+/- 6}

AMD FX-8370 Eight-Core

15th

874 ^{+/- 65}

Intel Xeon E5-2650 0

14th

872 ^{+/- 1}

2 x Intel Xeon Platinum 8252C

13th

839 ^{+/- 3}

Intel Core i5-2520M

11th

801 ^{+/- 4}

Ampere eMAG ARMv8 32-Core

7th

581 ^{+/- 34}

ARMv8 Cortex-A72 16-Core

6th

554 ^{+/- 9}

Intel Celeron J3455

6th

537 ^{+/- 1}

ARMv8 rev 0 6-Core

5th

518 ^{+/- 5}

ARMv8 Cortex-A72 4-Core

3rd

428 ^{+/- 49}

Based on OpenBenchmarking.org data, the selected test / test configuration (lzbench 1.8 - Test: Zstd 1 - Process: Decompression) 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 0.1%.

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.

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)

IBM Z

s390x

(Many Processors)

IBM POWER (PowerPC) 64-bit

ppc64le

POWER8E

ARMv8 64-bit

aarch64

ARMv8 Cortex-A55 4-Core, ARMv8 Cortex-A55 6-Core, ARMv8 Cortex-A72 16-Core, ARMv8 Cortex-A72 4-Core, ARMv8 Cortex-X1C 8-Core, ARMv8 Neoverse-N1, ARMv8 Neoverse-N1 80-Core, ARMv8 rev 0 6-Core, Ampere ARMv8 Neoverse-N1 160-Core, Ampere eMAG ARMv8 32-Core, Apple, Phytium D2000

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
teste05compressaowindows02 1 System - 18 Benchmark Results	2 x Intel Xeon E5-2620 v4 - Placa-me - 1 x 3372 MB 48MHz Microsoft Windows 10 Pro Build 19045 - 10.0.19045.3693 - 10.0.19041.3636
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
cpu-massive-test-results 1 System - 99 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i7-1370P - LENOVO 21HGS21V00 - 8 x 4096 MB 4800MHz H58G66BK7BX067 Microsoft Windows 10 Enterprise Build 19045 - 10.0.19045.3570 - 31.0.101.4575
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
Xeon & EPYC Tests 17 Systems - 119 Benchmark Results	Intel Xeon Platinum 8280 - GIGABYTE MD61-SC2-00 v01000100 - Intel Sky Lake-E DMI3 Registers Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.4.0-18-generic - GNOME Shell 3.36.0
HP 89C0 (U97 Ver. 01.08.00 BIOS) On Fedora Linux 39 1 System - 4 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i7-12700H - HP 89C0 - Intel Alder Lake PCH Fedora Linux 39 - 6.5.11-300.fc39.x86_64 - KDE Plasma 5.27.9
Fedora Linux 39 Benchmarks 1 System - 10 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i7-12700H - HP 89C0 - Intel Alder Lake PCH Fedora Linux 39 - 6.5.11-300.fc39.x86_64 - KDE Plasma 5.27.9
Fedora Linux 39 Performance 1 System - 6 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i7-12700H - HP 89C0 - Intel Alder Lake PCH Fedora Linux 39 - 6.5.11-300.fc39.x86_64 - KDE Plasma 5.27.9
HP 89C0 (U97 Ver. 01.08.00 BIOS) On Fedora Linux 39 1 System - 8 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i7-12700H - HP 89C0 - Intel Alder Lake PCH Fedora Linux 39 - 6.5.11-300.fc39.x86_64 - KDE Plasma 5.27.9

Sandy 3 Systems - 268 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i5-2520M - HP 161C - Intel 2nd Generation Core DRAM Ubuntu 18.04 - 4.18.0-20-generic - GNOME Shell 3.28.3
xeon-crypt 4 Systems - 34 Benchmark Results	Intel Xeon E3-1235L v5 - ASRockRack C236M WS - Intel Xeon E3-1200 v5 Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.8.0-050800-generic - GNOME Shell 3.36.4
Xeon & EPYC Tests 16 Systems - 119 Benchmark Results	Intel Xeon Gold 6226R - GIGABYTE MD61-SC2-00 v01000100 - Intel Sky Lake-E DMI3 Registers Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.4.0-18-generic - GNOME Shell 3.36.0
Core i9 10900K vs. Ryzen 9 3900X/3950X Linux Benchmarks Featured Processor Comparison	AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 12-Core - ASUS ROG CROSSHAIR VIII HERO - AMD Starship Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.7.0-999-generic - GNOME Shell 3.36.1
10100 t 3 Systems - 24 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
OnLogic Helix 500 Linux benchmarks 2 Systems - 151 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i7-10700T - Logic Supply RXM-181 - Intel Comet Lake PCH Ubuntu 20.10 - 5.8.0-41-generic - GNOME Shell 3.38.2
c1700 3 Systems - 34 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 7 1700 Eight-Core - MSI B350 TOMAHAWK - AMD 17h Ubuntu 20.10 - 5.11.0-rc1-phx - GNOME Shell 3.38.1
10700T Friday 4 Systems - 30 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i7-10700T - Logic Supply RXM-181 - Intel Comet Lake PCH Ubuntu 20.10 - 5.8.0-38-generic - GNOME Shell 3.38.1
Ryzen 7 4700U vs. Core i7 1065G7 Ubuntu Linux 2 Systems - 150 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i7-1065G7 - Dell 06CDVY - Intel Device 34ef Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.7.0-999-generic - GNOME Shell 3.36.1
Icelake Crypt 3 Systems - 17 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i7-1065G7 - Dell 06CDVY - Intel Device 34ef Ubuntu 20.10 - 5.8.0-38-generic - GNOME Shell 3.38.1
7980XE Feb 2921 5 Systems - 89 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i9-7980XE - ASUS PRIME X299-A - Intel Sky Lake-E DMI3 Registers Ubuntu 20.10 - 5.8.0-36-generic - GNOME Shell 3.38.1
3770K 2021 3 Systems - 108 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i7-3770K - ECS Z77H2-A2X v1.0 - Intel Xeon E3-1200 v2 Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.4.0-58-generic - GNOME Shell 3.36.4
Intel Core i3 10100 vs. AMD Ryzen 3 3300X Benchmarks 2 Systems - 1708 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 3 3300X 4-Core - ASRock X570 Pro4 - AMD Starship Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.7.0-rc6-amd-energy - GNOME Shell 3.36.2
Core i7 6800K Broadwell 4 Systems - 77 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i7-6800K - MSI X99A WORKSTATION - Intel Xeon E7 v4 Ubuntu 20.10 - 5.8.0-33-generic - GNOME Shell 3.38.1
Big Threadripper 2 Systems - 475 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3970X 32-Core - ASUS ROG ZENITH II EXTREME - AMD Starship Ubuntu 19.10 - 5.3.0-18-generic - GNOME Shell 3.34.1

lzbench

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

lzbench 1.8

Test: Zstd 1 - Process: Decompression

Does It Scale Well With Increasing Cores?

Tested CPU Architectures

Recent Test Results

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