Zstd Compression

This test measures the time needed to compress/decompress a sample input file using Zstd compression supplied by the system or otherwise externally of the test profile.

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

Project Site

github.com

Source Repository

github.com

Test Created

24 May 2018

Last Updated

14 October 2021

Test Maintainer

Michael Larabel

Test Type

Processor

Average Install Time

4 Seconds

Average Run Time

13 Minutes, 34 Seconds

Accolades

20k+ 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 17 December 2024.

Revision History

system/compress-zstd-1.5.0 [View Source] Thu, 14 Oct 2021 14:33:20 GMT
Bring system/compress-zstd test profile in sync with options and settings of pts/compress-zstd-1.5.0

system/compress-zstd-1.0.1 [View Source] Mon, 28 May 2018 15:53:38 GMT
Add Windows Zstd test support.

system/compress-zstd-1.0.0 [View Source] Thu, 24 May 2018 10:54:13 GMT
Initial commit of pts/compress-zstd adapted to system/compress-zstd for using the system-wide/external Zstd.

Performance Metrics

Analyze Test Configuration:

Zstd Compression

Compression Level: 3 - Compression Speed

OpenBenchmarking.org metrics for this test profile configuration based on 591 public results since 14 October 2021 with the latest data as of 16 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

MB/s (Average)

AMD EPYC 9655P 96-Core

100th

13168 ^{+/- 60}

AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7995WX 96-Cores

99th

9845 ^{+/- 208}

2 x INTEL XEON PLATINUM 8592

97th

7576 ^{+/- 78}

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3970X 32-Core

93rd

6372 ^{+/- 636}

2 x AMD EPYC 7763 64-Core

92nd

6314 ^{+/- 14}

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3960X 24-Core

92nd

6280 ^{+/- 69}

AMD Ryzen 9 7900X 12-Core

87th

5849 ^{+/- 85}

AMD Ryzen 9 5900X 12-Core

85th

5425 ^{+/- 626}

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X 64-Core

85th

5407 ^{+/- 70}

AMD EPYC 7742 64-Core

83rd

5285 ^{+/- 24}

2 x AMD EPYC 7742 64-Core

83rd

5256 ^{+/- 38}

Ampere ARMv8 Neoverse-N1 256-Core

81st

4862 ^{+/- 507}

AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 12-Core

81st

4837 ^{+/- 65}

AMD Ryzen 9 3950X 16-Core

80th

4543 ^{+/- 409}

2 x AMD EPYC 7601 32-Core

79th

4342 ^{+/- 136}

AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 16-Core

77th

4072 ^{+/- 34}

Mid-Tier

75th

< 4034

AMD Ryzen 5 3600XT 6-Core

75th

4032 ^{+/- 41}

AMD EPYC 75F3 32-Core

75th

4002 ^{+/- 42}

Intel Core i5-12400

70th

3614 ^{+/- 2}

Intel Core i7-12700H

70th

3604 ^{+/- 169}

AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 8-Core

70th

3576 ^{+/- 404}

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2970WX 24-Core

69th

3519 ^{+/- 424}

2 x Intel Xeon Gold 5220R

69th

3499 ^{+/- 149}

Apple M1

69th

3497 ^{+/- 229}

AMD Ryzen 9 3900XT 12-Core

66th

3172 ^{+/- 296}

AMD EPYC 72F3 8-Core

66th

3092 ^{+/- 18}

Intel Xeon Silver 4216

64th

2843 ^{+/- 48}

Intel Core i9-9900KS

63rd

2770 ^{+/- 11}

Intel Core i9-11900K

62nd

2656 ^{+/- 16}

AMD Ryzen 3 3300X 4-Core

61st

2591 ^{+/- 60}

Intel Core i9-10900K

60th

2519

AMD Ryzen 7 3800XT 8-Core

59th

2484 ^{+/- 13}

Intel Core i9-9900K

58th

2452 ^{+/- 17}

Intel Xeon E-2288G

57th

2375 ^{+/- 29}

Intel Core i5-8400

56th

2324 ^{+/- 50}

AMD Ryzen 5 5600G

56th

2308 ^{+/- 259}

Intel Core i5-10600K

54th

2249 ^{+/- 43}

AMD Ryzen 7 2700 Eight-Core

53rd

2223 ^{+/- 59}

Median

50th

2105

Intel Core i7-6800K

50th

2100 ^{+/- 10}

Intel Core i7-10700T

50th

2094 ^{+/- 19}

Intel Core i7-8700K

48th

1986 ^{+/- 40}

Intel Core i5-9400F

47th

1951 ^{+/- 217}

Intel Core i7-8086K

47th

1926 ^{+/- 50}

Intel Core i7-7740K

46th

1790 ^{+/- 16}

AMD Ryzen 7 5700G

46th

1754 ^{+/- 198}

Intel Core i7-5775C

45th

1742 ^{+/- 11}

Intel Core i5-8500

43rd

1679 ^{+/- 11}

Intel Xeon E5-2609 v4

41st

1603 ^{+/- 23}

Intel Core i7-1065G7

40th

1535 ^{+/- 27}

Intel Xeon E3-1235L v5

40th

1479 ^{+/- 4}

AMD Ryzen 5 4500U

39th

1467 ^{+/- 102}

Intel Xeon E3-1245 v5

38th

1459 ^{+/- 10}

Intel Core i7-8700B

38th

1416 ^{+/- 121}

Intel Core i5-6500

38th

1373 ^{+/- 99}

Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5

36th

1348 ^{+/- 13}

Intel Core i5-7600K

36th

1347 ^{+/- 26}

AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX

33rd

1258 ^{+/- 77}

Intel Core i7-8850H

32nd

1228 ^{+/- 13}

AMD Ryzen 3 2200G

32nd

1227 ^{+/- 5}

AMD Ryzen 5 5500U

30th

1163 ^{+/- 129}

Intel Xeon E3-1231 v3

30th

1155 ^{+/- 18}

Intel Core i7-8550U

29th

1072 ^{+/- 30}

Loongson-3A5000

29th

1051 ^{+/- 2}

Intel Core i7-8565U

27th

923 ^{+/- 21}

AMD Ryzen 5 2400G

27th

919 ^{+/- 5}

Low-Tier

25th

< 848

Intel Core i3-10100

25th

844 ^{+/- 10}

Intel Core i7-2700K

25th

834 ^{+/- 20}

Intel Core i3-7100

10th

651 ^{+/- 39}

Intel Core i7-5600U

9th

629 ^{+/- 11}

AMD Ryzen 3 3200U

8th

550 ^{+/- 46}

Intel Core i3-3120M

6th

376 ^{+/- 3}

Intel Core i7-3520M

4th

141 ^{+/- 1}

ARMv8 Cortex-A72 4-Core

3rd

82 ^{+/- 7}

Detailed Performance Overview

Based on OpenBenchmarking.org data, the selected test / test configuration (Zstd Compression - Compression Level: 3 - Compression Speed) has an average run-time of 3 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.

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-3A5000, Loongson-3A6000, Loongson-3A6000-HV

ARMv8 64-bit

arm64

Apple M1 Max, Apple M1 Pro, Apple M4 Max

ARMv8 64-bit

aarch64

ARMv8 Cortex-A53 4-Core, ARMv8 Cortex-A72 4-Core, ARMv8 Neoverse-N1, Ampere ARMv8 Neoverse-N1 256-Core, Apple M1

m1pro 3 Systems - 33 Benchmark Results	Apple M1 Pro - Apple MacBook Pro - 32GB macOS 12.6.1 - 21.6.0 - GCC 14.0.0 + Clang 14.0.0 + Xcode 14.1
5.15.0-126-generic + Ubuntu 20.04 Tests 1 System - 27 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i7-10875H - Dell Precision 7750 0GHYP6 - Intel Comet Lake PCH Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.15.0-126-generic - GNOME Shell 3.36.9
Ubuntu 20.04 Benchmarks 1 System - 27 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i7-10875H - Dell Precision 7750 0GHYP6 - Intel Comet Lake PCH Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.15.0-126-generic - GNOME Shell 3.36.9
m1-max 3 Systems - 23 Benchmark Results	Apple M1 Max - Apple MacBook Pro - 32GB macOS 12.0.1 - 21.1.0 - OpenCL 1.2
Dell Precision 7750 0GHYP6 (1.35.1 BIOS) On Ubuntu 20.04 1 System - 27 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i7-10875H - Dell Precision 7750 0GHYP6 - Intel Comet Lake PCH Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.15.0-126-generic - GNOME Shell 3.36.9
Ubuntu vs. Fedora Clear Linux vs. openSUSE vs. Solus, Arch Etc 10 Systems - 51 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i7-8086K - ASUS PRIME Z370-A - Intel 8th Gen Core Debian testing - 4.16.0-2-amd64 - GNOME Shell 3.28.2
Intel Core i7-10875H Performance 1 System - 27 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i7-10875H - Dell Precision 7750 0GHYP6 - Intel Comet Lake PCH Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.15.0-126-generic - GNOME Shell 3.36.9
Intel Core i7-10875H + Intel UHD 8GB + Dell Precision 7750 0GHYP6 (1.35.1 BIOS) 1 System - 27 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i7-10875H - Dell Precision 7750 0GHYP6 - Intel Comet Lake PCH Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.15.0-126-generic - GNOME Shell 3.36.9
Intel Core i7-10875H + Intel UHD 8GB + Dell Precision 7750 0GHYP6 (1.35.1 BIOS) 1 System - 27 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i7-10875H - Dell Precision 7750 0GHYP6 - Intel Comet Lake PCH Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.15.0-126-generic - GNOME Shell 3.36.9
Ubuntu vs. Fedora Clear Linux vs. openSUSE vs. Solus, Arch Etc 9 Systems - 51 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i7-8086K - ASUS PRIME Z370-A - Intel Device 3ec2 Solus 3.9999 - 4.17.2-78.current - Budgie
Ryzen 3 5300G CPU 1 System - 52 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 3 5300G - Gigabyte B450 I AORUS PRO WIFI-CF - AMD Renoir Ubuntu 24.04 - 6.8.0-49-generic - GNOME Shell 46.0
m1pro 2 Systems - 32 Benchmark Results	Apple M1 Pro - Apple MacBook Pro - 32GB macOS 12.6.1 - 21.6.0 - GCC 14.0.0 + Clang 14.0.0 + Xcode 14.1
m1-max 3 Systems - 18 Benchmark Results	Apple M4 Max - Apple MacBook Pro - 48GB macOS 15.1.1 - 24.1.0 - X Server
Additional Zen 5 Linux Distro Benchmarks 4 Systems - 99 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 9 9950X 16-Core - ASUS ROG STRIX X670E-E GAMING WIFI - AMD Device 14d8 Fedora Linux 40 - 6.10.4-200.fc40.x86_64 - GNOME Shell 46.4
Additional Zen 5 Linux Distro Benchmarks 3 Systems - 99 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 9 9950X 16-Core - ASUS ROG STRIX X670E-E GAMING WIFI - AMD Device 14d8 cachyos rolling - 6.10.5-2-cachyos - KDE Plasma 6.1.4

openSUSE Tumbleweed GCC12 Benchmarks 2 Systems - 101 Benchmark Results	2 x Intel Xeon Platinum 8380 - Intel M50CYP2SB2U - Intel Device 0998 openSUSE 20220510 - 5.17.5-1-default - GCC 12.1.0
Clear Linux 2 Systems - 160 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i9-10980XE - ASRock X299 Steel Legend - Intel Sky Lake-E DMI3 Registers Clear Linux OS 35150 - 5.14.13-1083.native - GNOME Shell 41.0
AMD EPYC 7003 EO 2021 Linux Comparison 3 Systems - 141 Benchmark Results	2 x AMD EPYC 75F3 32-Core - ASRockRack ROME2D16-2T - AMD Starship CentOS Stream 8 - 4.18.0-348.el8.x86_64 - GNOME Shell 3.32.2
3970X sun 3 Systems - 51 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3970X 32-Core - ASUS ROG ZENITH II EXTREME - AMD Starship Ubuntu 20.10 - 5.11.0-rc6-phx - GNOME Shell 3.38.1
7100 Dec 2 Systems - 161 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i3-7100 - Gigabyte B250M-DS3H-CF - Intel Xeon E3-1200 v6 Ubuntu 20.10 - 5.8.0-55-generic - GNOME Shell 3.38.1
5800x Fri 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
friday kaby 3 Systems - 108 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i7-8550U - Dell 0H0VG3 - Intel Xeon E3-1200 v6 Ubuntu 20.10 - 5.8.0-63-generic - GNOME Shell 3.38.2
Clear Compare BSD 2 Systems - 222 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i9-10980XE - Intel Sky Lake-E DMI3 Registers - 32GB FreeBSD - 13.0-RELEASE - Clang 11.0.1
Apple M1 Asahi Linux Alpha 3 Systems - 268 Benchmark Results	Apple M1 - Apple Mac mini - 8GB Arch Linux ARM - 5.17.0-rc7-asahi-next-20220310-5-1-ARCH - KDE Plasma 5.24.3
2970WX November 4 Systems - 75 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
november Xeon E3-1280 v5 3 Systems - 96 Benchmark Results	Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5 - MSI Z170A SLI PLUS - Intel Xeon E3-1200 v5 Ubuntu 20.04 - 5.13.0-051300-generic - GNOME Shell 3.36.9
AMD EPYC 7003 EO 2021 Linux Comparison 2 Systems - 140 Benchmark Results	2 x AMD EPYC 75F3 32-Core - ASRockRack ROME2D16-2T - AMD Starship Clear Linux OS 35150 - 5.14.13-1083.native - GNOME Shell 41.0
2990wx-december 3 Systems - 261 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2990WX 32-Core - ASUS ROG ZENITH EXTREME - AMD 17h Ubuntu 20.10 - 5.8.0-50-generic - GNOME Shell 3.38.1
AMD EPYC 7003 EO 2021 Linux Comparison 4 Systems - 141 Benchmark Results	2 x AMD EPYC 75F3 32-Core - ASRockRack ROME2D16-2T - AMD Starship AlmaLinux 8.4 - 4.18.0-305.el8.x86_64 - GNOME Shell 3.32.2
10600K Dec 3 Systems - 146 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i5-10600K - ASUS PRIME Z490M-PLUS - Intel Comet Lake PCH Ubuntu 20.10 - 5.11.0-051100rc2daily20210106-generic - GNOME Shell 3.38.1

Zstd Compression

Project Site

Source Repository

Test Created

Last Updated

Test Maintainer

Test Type

Average Install Time

Average Run Time

Accolades

Supported Platforms

Revision History

Performance Metrics

Zstd Compression

Compression Level: 3 - Compression Speed

Does It Scale Well With Increasing Cores?

Tested CPU Architectures

Recent Test Results

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