System XZ Decompression

This test measures the time to decompress a Linux kernel tarball using XZ.

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

Test Created

18 January 2013

Last Updated

29 January 2013

Test Maintainer

Jim Kukunas

Test Type

Processor

Average Install Time

1 Second

Average Run Time

28 Seconds

Accolades

100k+ 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 24 December 2024.

Revision History

pts/system-decompress-xz-1.0.2 [View Source] Tue, 29 Jan 2013 00:48:54 GMT
This test profile works on BSD.

pts/system-decompress-xz-1.0.1 [View Source] Tue, 22 Jan 2013 00:16:03 GMT
Add a support-check.sh for the xz command.

pts/system-decompress-xz-1.0.0 [View Source] Fri, 18 Jan 2013 14:36:08 GMT
Initial commit of new test profile, courtesy of Intel Open-Source Technology Center.

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Performance Metrics

Analyze Test Configuration:

System XZ Decompression

OpenBenchmarking.org metrics for this test profile configuration based on 1,013 public results since 1 November 2017 with the latest data as of 17 December 2024.

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

Seconds (Average)

AMD Ryzen 7 7700X 8-Core

100th

2.06 ^{+/- 0.08}

AMD Ryzen 5 7600 6-Core

100th

2.09 ^{+/- 0.01}

AMD Ryzen 9 7900X 12-Core

99th

2.17 ^{+/- 0.02}

AMD Ryzen 7 7840U

99th

2.18 ^{+/- 0.04}

AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 16-Core

97th

2.50 ^{+/- 0.14}

AMD Ryzen 7 5800X 8-Core

96th

2.58 ^{+/- 0.10}

AMD Ryzen 5 5600X 6-Core

95th

2.62 ^{+/- 0.06}

AMD Ryzen 5 5600G

93rd

2.87 ^{+/- 0.11}

Intel Core i9-9900K

91st

2.94 ^{+/- 0.08}

Intel Core i7-9700K

91st

2.97 ^{+/- 0.14}

Intel Core i9-10900K

89th

3.12 ^{+/- 0.32}

AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 8-Core

87th

3.25 ^{+/- 0.11}

AMD Ryzen 9 3900XT 12-Core

85th

3.34 ^{+/- 0.24}

AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 12-Core

85th

3.35 ^{+/- 0.24}

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3960X 24-Core

83rd

3.41 ^{+/- 0.06}

Intel Xeon W-2295

82nd

3.43 ^{+/- 0.01}

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3970X 32-Core

81st

3.47 ^{+/- 0.26}

Intel Core i3-10105

81st

3.50 ^{+/- 0.23}

AMD Ryzen 5 3600 6-Core

81st

3.51 ^{+/- 0.06}

AMD Ryzen 3 PRO 4350G

78th

3.62 ^{+/- 0.04}

Intel Core i7-2600K

77th

3.67 ^{+/- 0.14}

Mid-Tier

75th

> 3.79

AMD Ryzen 7 2700X Eight-Core

75th

3.80 ^{+/- 0.15}

Intel Core i7-8850H

75th

3.80 ^{+/- 0.14}

AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 6650U

75th

3.80 ^{+/- 0.19}

Intel Core i5-8500

73rd

3.93 ^{+/- 0.01}

AMD Ryzen 5 3400G

70th

4.00 ^{+/- 0.05}

Intel Core i7-6700

70th

4.05

AMD Ryzen 3 3200G

67th

4.12 ^{+/- 0.08}

2 x AMD EPYC 7742 64-Core

65th

4.21 ^{+/- 0.10}

Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5

64th

4.24 ^{+/- 0.53}

AMD Ryzen 5 1600 Six-Core

64th

4.25 ^{+/- 0.27}

Intel Core i5-6500

63rd

4.28 ^{+/- 0.17}

Intel Core i7-2700K

62nd

4.30 ^{+/- 0.06}

2 x Intel Xeon Platinum 8168

62nd

4.31 ^{+/- 0.05}

AMD EPYC 7302P 16-Core

61st

4.33 ^{+/- 0.15}

AMD Ryzen 5 2600 Six-Core

61st

4.34 ^{+/- 0.09}

AMD Ryzen 5 2400G

58th

4.38 ^{+/- 0.38}

2 x Intel Xeon E5-2698 v3

56th

4.42 ^{+/- 0.01}

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2990WX 32-Core

56th

4.43 ^{+/- 0.14}

2 x Intel Xeon E5-2697 v3

53rd

4.47 ^{+/- 0.03}

2 x Intel Xeon E5-2699 v3

52nd

4.53 ^{+/- 0.23}

Intel Core i7-6820HQ

52nd

4.55 ^{+/- 0.05}

Intel Core i9-7980XE

52nd

4.57 ^{+/- 0.63}

AMD EPYC 7402P 24-Core

51st

4.61 ^{+/- 0.11}

Median

50th

4.66

Intel Core i7-4700MQ

50th

4.69 ^{+/- 0.03}

Intel Core i7-4600U

50th

4.70 ^{+/- 0.04}

AMD EPYC 7282 16-Core

50th

4.72 ^{+/- 0.58}

Intel Core i5-4440S

49th

4.76 ^{+/- 0.04}

2 x Intel Xeon E5-2680 v3

48th

4.84 ^{+/- 0.02}

Loongson-3A6000

46th

4.94 ^{+/- 0.06}

AMD FX-8350 Eight-Core

45th

4.96 ^{+/- 0.06}

Intel Core i5-3320M

40th

5.12 ^{+/- 0.14}

2 x Intel Xeon E5-2669 v3

40th

5.14 ^{+/- 0.05}

POWER9 44-Core

36th

5.56

Intel Core i7 920

35th

5.58 ^{+/- 0.03}

2 x AMD EPYC 7551 32-Core

34th

5.61 ^{+/- 0.12}

POWER9 altivec supported 64-Core

34th

5.65 ^{+/- 0.02}

2 x AMD EPYC 7532 32-Core

33rd

5.73 ^{+/- 0.01}

Intel Xeon E5-2650 0

32nd

5.76 ^{+/- 0.02}

Intel Core 2 Quad Q9650

32nd

5.81 ^{+/- 0.19}

AMD Athlon II X4 630

32nd

5.84 ^{+/- 0.02}

Low-Tier

25th

> 6.12

AMD Opteron 6308

21st

6.14 ^{+/- 0.52}

Intel Core i5 450M

20th

6.44 ^{+/- 0.07}

AMD EPYC 7551P 32-Core

20th

6.45 ^{+/- 0.04}

Ampere eMAG ARMv8 32-Core

18th

6.59 ^{+/- 0.03}

Intel Core i3-3120M

18th

6.63 ^{+/- 0.02}

Loongson-3C5000

16th

6.74

Intel Celeron J4105

12th

7.20 ^{+/- 0.14}

Intel Atom C3958

10th

8.71

ARMv8 rev 0 6-Core

9th

9.47 ^{+/- 0.17}

ARMv8 Cortex-A72 4-Core

8th

10.75 ^{+/- 0.52}

2 x Intel Xeon E5-2630 v3

6th

12.83 ^{+/- 0.02}

AMD E-350

4th

12.94 ^{+/- 0.10}

ARMv7 Cortex-A72 4-Core

4th

13.70 ^{+/- 1.09}

Intel Pentium 4 3.20GHz

3rd

14.22 ^{+/- 0.15}

Detailed Performance Overview

Based on OpenBenchmarking.org data, the selected test / test configuration (System XZ 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 0.5%.

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, POWER9 44-Core, POWER9 altivec supported 64-Core

Loongson LoongArch 64-bit

loongarch64

Loongson-3A5000, Loongson-3A6000, Loongson-3C5000

Intel / AMD x86 32-bit

i686

(Many Processors)

ARMv7 32-bit

armv7l

ARMv7 Cortex-A53 4-Core, ARMv7 Cortex-A72 4-Core, ARMv7 rev 3 4-Core, ARMv7 rev 3 8-Core, ARMv7 rev 4 4-Core, ARMv7 rev 5 4-Core

ARMv8 64-bit

aarch64

ARMv8, ARMv8 Cortex-A53 4-Core, ARMv8 Cortex-A55 4-Core, ARMv8 Cortex-A55 6-Core, ARMv8 Cortex-A72 16-Core, ARMv8 Cortex-A72 4-Core, ARMv8 Cortex-A73 6-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, Phytium D2000

ryzen-upgrade-2024 5 Systems - 152 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 5 2600 Six-Core - Gigabyte X470 AORUS ULTRA GAMING-CF - AMD 17h Ubuntu 23.10 - 6.5.0-44-generic - X Server 1.21.1.7
ryzen-upgrade-2024 5 Systems - 145 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 5 2600 Six-Core - Gigabyte X470 AORUS ULTRA GAMING-CF - AMD 17h Ubuntu 23.10 - 6.5.0-44-generic - X Server 1.21.1.7
ryzen-upgrade-2024 5 Systems - 121 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 5 2600 Six-Core - Gigabyte X470 AORUS ULTRA GAMING-CF - AMD 17h Ubuntu 23.10 - 6.5.0-44-generic - X Server 1.21.1.7
ryzen-upgrade-2024 5 Systems - 115 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 5 2600 Six-Core - Gigabyte X470 AORUS ULTRA GAMING-CF - AMD 17h Ubuntu 23.10 - 6.5.0-44-generic - X Server 1.21.1.7
ryzen-upgrade-2024 5 Systems - 108 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 5 2600 Six-Core - Gigabyte X470 AORUS ULTRA GAMING-CF - AMD 17h Ubuntu 23.10 - 6.5.0-44-generic - X Server 1.21.1.7
ryzen-upgrade-2024 5 Systems - 107 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 5 2600 Six-Core - Gigabyte X470 AORUS ULTRA GAMING-CF - AMD 17h Ubuntu 23.10 - 6.5.0-44-generic - X Server 1.21.1.7
ryzen-upgrade-2024 5 Systems - 103 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 5 2600 Six-Core - Gigabyte X470 AORUS ULTRA GAMING-CF - AMD 17h Ubuntu 23.10 - 6.5.0-44-generic - KDE Plasma 5.27.10
2024-12-19-1207 14 Systems - 125 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i7-12700H - ASUS N7600ZE v1.0 - Intel Alder Lake PCH SystemRescue 11.01 - 6.6.30-1-lts - Xfce 4.18
ryzen-upgrade-2024 Featured Graphics Comparison	ASUS NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 4GB - llvmpipe
ryzen-upgrade-2024 Featured Graphics Comparison	ASUS NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 4GB - llvmpipe
ryzen-upgrade-2024 Featured Graphics Comparison	ASUS NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 4GB - llvmpipe
ryzen-upgrade-2024 Featured Graphics Comparison	ASUS NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 4GB - llvmpipe
ryzen-upgrade-2024 Featured Graphics Comparison	ASUS NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 4GB - llvmpipe
ryzen-upgrade-2024 Featured Graphics Comparison	ASUS NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 4GB - llvmpipe
ryzen-upgrade-2024 Featured Graphics Comparison	ASUS NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 4GB - llvmpipe

3dn_xeon_broadwell_patched 2 Systems - 601 Benchmark Results	2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6140 - Intel S2600WFT - Intel Device 2020 Debian 9.4 - 4.9.0-6-amd64 - GCC 6.3.0 20170516 + Clang 3.8.1-24
MickMake Rock64 1G 20180131 7 Systems - 95 Benchmark Results	Unknown - Pine64 Rock64 - 921MB Ubuntu 16.04 - 4.4.103-rockchip-ayufan-181 - GCC 5.4.0 20160609
freebsd-120-current-trueos 4 Systems - 119 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i9-7980XE - ASUS PRIME X299-A - Intel Sky Lake-E DMI3 Registers FreeBSD - 11.1-RELEASE - Clang 4.0.0
MickMake ODROID XU4 20180808 1 System - 206 Benchmark Results	ARMv7 rev 3 - ODROID-XU3 Hardkernel Odroid XU4 - 2048MB Ubuntu 16.04 - 4.9.71-odroidxu4 - Xfce 4.12
Clear Linux vs. Ubuntu 18.10 Performance Benchmarks 6 Systems - 92 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i9-9900K - ASUS PRIME Z390-A - Intel Cannon Lake PCH Shared SRAM Ubuntu 18.10 - 4.18.0-10-generic - GNOME Shell 3.30.1
cachyos-v3, arch-baseline-pre 6 Systems - 59 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 9 7950X 16-Core - ASUS ROG STRIX X670E-E GAMING WIFI - AMD Device 14d8 Arch rolling - 6.10.0-arch1-1 - X Server 1.21.1.13 + Wayland
arch-baseline-pre Featured Kernel Comparison	AMD Ryzen 9 7950X 16-Core - ASUS ROG STRIX X670E-E GAMING WIFI - AMD Device 14d8 Arch rolling - 6.10.0-arch1-1 - X Server 1.21.1.13 + Wayland
POWER9 44c 176t 2021 4 Systems - 210 Benchmark Results	POWER9 - PowerNV T2P9D01 REV 1.01 - 64GB Ubuntu 20.10 - 5.9.10-050910-generic - X Server
kubuntu2204-ryzen7-3700 6 Systems - 301 Benchmark Results
AMD Ryzen 9 3900X + ASUS X570 AGESA ABBA Featured Motherboard Comparison	AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 12-Core - ASUS ROG CROSSHAIR VIII HERO - AMD Starship Ubuntu 19.10 - 5.3.0-10-generic - GNOME Shell 3.34.0
AMD Ryzen 9 3900X ASUS X570 ABBA Featured Motherboard Comparison	AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 12-Core - ASUS ROG CROSSHAIR VIII HERO - AMD Starship Ubuntu 19.10 - 5.3.0-10-generic - GNOME Shell 3.34.0
test-cpu-3750 3 Systems - 158 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 7 1700 Eight-Core - ASRock X370 Gaming X - AMD 17h Arch rolling - 5.11.16-arch1-1 - Xfce 4.16
Clear Linux 25920 vs. Ubuntu 18.10 Benchmarks 6 Systems - 98 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i9-9900K - ASUS PRIME Z390-A - Intel Cannon Lake PCH Shared SRAM Clear Linux OS 25920 - 4.18.16-649.native - GNOME Shell 3.30.1
test-cpu-3750 4 Systems - 159 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 8-Core - ASRock X370 Gaming X - AMD Starship Arch rolling - 5.12.1-arch1-1 - Xfce 4.16
HoneyComb LX2K @ 2GHz 2 Systems - 59 Benchmark Results	ARMv8 Cortex-A72 - SolidRun CEX7 - 32GB Ubuntu 21.10 - 5.14.0-051400-generic - GNOME Shell 40.5

System XZ Decompression

Test Created

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