LZ4 Compression

This test measures the time needed to compress/decompress a sample file (silesia archive) using LZ4 compression.

To run this test with the Phoronix Test Suite, the basic command is: phoronix-test-suite benchmark compress-lz4.

Project Site

lz4.org

Source Repository

github.com

Test Created

16 November 2020

Last Updated

22 July 2024

Test Maintainer

Michael Larabel

Test Type

Processor

Average Install Time

21 Seconds

Average Run Time

3 Minutes, 57 Seconds

Test Dependencies

C/C++ Compiler Toolchain

Accolades

30k+ 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 January 2025.

Revision History

pts/compress-lz4-1.10.0 [View Source] Mon, 22 Jul 2024 08:48:19 GMT
Update against LZ4 v1.10 upstream.

pts/compress-lz4-1.1.0 [View Source] Fri, 19 Jan 2024 19:19:29 GMT
Update against lz4 v1.9.4 and switch to silesia payload. Closes: https://github.com/phoronix-test-suite/phoronix-test-suite/issues/768

pts/compress-lz4-1.0.0 [View Source] Mon, 16 Nov 2020 07:06:05 GMT
Initial commit, forgot this long ago to import to OpenBenchmarking...

Suites Using This Test

Compression Tests

Performance Metrics

Analyze Test Configuration:

LZ4 Compression 1.10

Compression Level: 12 - Decompression Speed

OpenBenchmarking.org metrics for this test profile configuration based on 398 public results since 22 July 2024 with the latest data as of 9 January 2025.

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 9900X 12-Core

98th

6780 ^{+/- 110}

AMD Ryzen 9 9950X 16-Core

98th

6749 ^{+/- 143}

AMD Ryzen 7 9700X 8-Core

96th

6738 ^{+/- 9}

AMD Ryzen 5 9600X 6-Core

94th

6657 ^{+/- 15}

Intel Core Ultra 9 285K

90th

6463 ^{+/- 9}

AMD Ryzen 9 7950X 16-Core

87th

6243 ^{+/- 76}

Intel Core i9-14900K

86th

6163 ^{+/- 84}

Intel Core i9-13900K

82nd

6016 ^{+/- 68}

Intel Core Ultra 5 245K

81st

5970 ^{+/- 4}

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7980X 64-Cores

81st

5963 ^{+/- 33}

AMD Ryzen 5 7600 6-Core

79th

5916 ^{+/- 23}

AMD Ryzen 7 7840HS

76th

5466 ^{+/- 29}

Mid-Tier

75th

< 5463

Intel Core Ultra 7 256V

74th

5352

AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 16-Core

72nd

5200 ^{+/- 107}

AMD Ryzen 7 7840U

71st

5190 ^{+/- 10}

Intel Core i5-13600K

69th

5024 ^{+/- 753}

2 x AMD EPYC 9755 128-Core

69th

4975 ^{+/- 64}

AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX

68th

4950 ^{+/- 12}

Intel Core i5-13400

67th

4927 ^{+/- 6}

AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D 8-Core

66th

4865

2 x AMD EPYC 9184X 16-Core

65th

4863 ^{+/- 2}

Intel Core i5-12600K

63rd

4768 ^{+/- 6}

AMD Ryzen 5 5600G

63rd

4764 ^{+/- 26}

AMD Ryzen 7 3800XT 8-Core

60th

4689 ^{+/- 52}

AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 6850U

60th

4677 ^{+/- 111}

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3970X 32-Core

59th

4615 ^{+/- 8}

Intel Core Ultra 7 155H

57th

4603 ^{+/- 138}

AMD Ryzen 5 5500

57th

4586 ^{+/- 16}

AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U

57th

4577 ^{+/- 39}

Intel Core i9-10980XE

51st

4416 ^{+/- 4}

Median

50th

4413

Intel Core i7-1165G7

50th

4399 ^{+/- 19}

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X 64-Core

50th

4395 ^{+/- 10}

2 x AMD EPYC 9124 16-Core

47th

4315 ^{+/- 11}

2 x AMD EPYC 9534 64-Core

46th

4312

AMD EPYC 7F32 8-Core

40th

4101 ^{+/- 2}

AMD Ryzen 7 4700U

39th

4092 ^{+/- 15}

2 x AMD EPYC 7773X 64-Core

33rd

3857 ^{+/- 1}

2 x AMD EPYC 7303 16-Core

32nd

3749 ^{+/- 2}

AMD EPYC 8534P 64-Core

30th

3654 ^{+/- 3}

AMD EPYC 8534PN 64-Core

30th

3652 ^{+/- 3}

Intel Core i7-1065G7

29th

3642 ^{+/- 4}

ARMv8 Neoverse-V2 96-Core

28th

3596

Low-Tier

25th

< 3519

Intel Xeon Silver 4216

10th

2781 ^{+/- 2}

ARMv8 Cortex-A76 4-Core

5th

1120 ^{+/- 26}

ARMv8 Cortex-A72 16-Core

4th

1090

ARMv8 Cortex-A72 4-Core

3rd

773 ^{+/- 12}

Detailed Performance Overview

Based on OpenBenchmarking.org data, the selected test / test configuration (LZ4 Compression 1.10 - Compression Level: 12 - Decompression Speed) has an average run-time of 4 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.

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.

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.

MOVDQU PUNPCKLQDQ MOVD PSHUFD MOVDQA PADDQ PSRLDQ PMULUDQ CVTSI2SD MOVAPD DIVSD MULSD ADDSD

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).

VINSERTF128 VEXTRACTF128 VZEROUPPER VBROADCASTSD 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 VEXTRACTI128 VPBROADCASTD VINSERTI128 VPERM2I128 VPGATHERQD

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: 23 August 2024

This test profile binary relies on the shared libraries 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-3C6000

ARMv8 64-bit

aarch64

ARMv8 Cortex-A72, ARMv8 Cortex-A72 16-Core, ARMv8 Cortex-A72 4-Core, ARMv8 Cortex-A76 4-Core, ARMv8 Neoverse-N1, ARMv8 Neoverse-N1 64-Core, ARMv8 Neoverse-N2, ARMv8 Neoverse-V1, ARMv8 Neoverse-V1 64-Core, ARMv8 Neoverse-V2, ARMv8 Neoverse-V2 96-Core, HiSilicon TSV110

n2d-standard-96 1 System - 39 Benchmark Results	2 x AMD EPYC 7B13 - Google Compute Engine n2d-standard-96 - 24 x 16 GB RAM Rocky Linux 9.5 - 5.14.0-503.15.1.el9_5.x86_64 - GCC 11.5.0 20240719
n2d-standard-96 1 System - 38 Benchmark Results	2 x AMD EPYC 7B13 - Google Compute Engine n2d-standard-96 - 24 x 16 GB RAM Rocky Linux 9.5 - 5.14.0-503.15.1.el9_5.x86_64 - GCC 11.5.0 20240719
n2d-standard-96 1 System - 37 Benchmark Results	2 x AMD EPYC 7B13 - Google Compute Engine n2d-standard-96 - 24 x 16 GB RAM Rocky Linux 9.5 - 5.14.0-503.15.1.el9_5.x86_64 - GCC 11.5.0 20240719
Standard_D64as_v6 1 System - 39 Benchmark Results	AMD EPYC 9V74 80-Core - Microsoft Virtual Machine - 1 GB + 59 GB + 196 GB Rocky Linux 9.5 - 5.14.0-427.13.1.el9_4.x86_64 - GCC 11.5.0 20240719
Standard_D64as_v6 1 System - 38 Benchmark Results	AMD EPYC 9V74 80-Core - Microsoft Virtual Machine - 1 GB + 59 GB + 196 GB Rocky Linux 9.5 - 5.14.0-427.13.1.el9_4.x86_64 - GCC 11.5.0 20240719
Standard_D64as_v6 1 System - 37 Benchmark Results	AMD EPYC 9V74 80-Core - Microsoft Virtual Machine - 1 GB + 59 GB + 196 GB Rocky Linux 9.5 - 5.14.0-427.13.1.el9_4.x86_64 - GCC 11.5.0 20240719
c3d-standard-88 1 System - 39 Benchmark Results	AMD EPYC 9B14 - Google Compute Engine c3d-standard-90 - 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 8 GB RAM Rocky Linux 9.5 - 5.14.0-503.15.1.el9_5.x86_64 - GCC 11.5.0 20240719
c3d-standard-88 1 System - 38 Benchmark Results	AMD EPYC 9B14 - Google Compute Engine c3d-standard-90 - 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 8 GB RAM Rocky Linux 9.5 - 5.14.0-503.15.1.el9_5.x86_64 - GCC 11.5.0 20240719
c3d-standard-88 1 System - 37 Benchmark Results	AMD EPYC 9B14 - Google Compute Engine c3d-standard-90 - 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 8 GB RAM Rocky Linux 9.5 - 5.14.0-503.15.1.el9_5.x86_64 - GCC 11.5.0 20240719
Standard_D64as_v6 1 System - 25 Benchmark Results	AMD EPYC 9V74 80-Core - Microsoft Virtual Machine - 1 GB + 59 GB + 196 GB Rocky Linux 9.5 - 5.14.0-427.13.1.el9_4.x86_64 - GCC 11.5.0 20240719
c3d-standard-88 1 System - 25 Benchmark Results	AMD EPYC 9B14 - Google Compute Engine c3d-standard-90 - 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 8 GB RAM Rocky Linux 9.5 - 5.14.0-503.15.1.el9_5.x86_64 - GCC 11.5.0 20240719
n2d-standard-96 1 System - 25 Benchmark Results	2 x AMD EPYC 7B13 - Google Compute Engine n2d-standard-96 - 24 x 16 GB RAM Rocky Linux 9.5 - 5.14.0-503.15.1.el9_5.x86_64 - GCC 11.5.0 20240719
Standard_D64as_v6 1 System - 17 Benchmark Results	AMD EPYC 9V74 80-Core - Microsoft Virtual Machine - 1 GB + 59 GB + 196 GB Rocky Linux 9.5 - 5.14.0-427.13.1.el9_4.x86_64 - GCC 11.5.0 20240719
c3d-standard-88 1 System - 17 Benchmark Results	AMD EPYC 9B14 - Google Compute Engine c3d-standard-90 - 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 16 GB + 8 GB RAM Rocky Linux 9.5 - 5.14.0-503.15.1.el9_5.x86_64 - GCC 11.5.0 20240719
n2d-standard-96 1 System - 17 Benchmark Results	2 x AMD EPYC 7B13 - Google Compute Engine n2d-standard-96 - 24 x 16 GB RAM Rocky Linux 9.5 - 5.14.0-503.15.1.el9_5.x86_64 - GCC 11.5.0 20240719

AWS Graviton Benchmarks 2 Systems - 87 Benchmark Results	ARMv8 Cortex-A72 - Amazon EC2 a1.metal - 32GB Ubuntu 24.04 - 6.8.0-1009-aws - GCC 13.2.0
Windows 11 vs. Ubuntu Linux Benchmarks On AMD Ryzen AI 9 365 2 Systems - 113 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen AI 9 365 - ASUS Zenbook S 16 UM5606WA_UM5606WA UM5606WA v1.0 - AMD Device 1507 Ubuntu 24.04 - 6.10.0-phx - GNOME Shell 46.0
AWS Graviton1 To Graviton4 Benchmarks 4 Systems - 87 Benchmark Results	ARMv8 Neoverse-V2 - Amazon EC2 r8g.metal-24xl - 12 x 64GB DDR5-5600MT Ubuntu 24.04 - 6.8.0-1009-aws - GCC 13.2.0
sl 7 Systems - 25 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 5 5500 - ASUS ROG CROSSHAIR VIII HERO - AMD Renoir Ubuntu 24.04 - 6.8.0-39-generic - GNOME Shell 46.0
lz4 raptor lake 4 Systems - 10 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i9-14900K - ASUS PRIME Z790-P WIFI - Intel Raptor Lake-S PCH Ubuntu 24.04 - 6.10.0-061000rc6daily20240706-generic - GNOME Shell 46.0
windows-11-ryzen-ai-9-365-benchmarks 3 Systems - 137 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen AI 9 365 - ASUS UM5606WA - 4 x 6144MB 7500MHz Micron MT62F1536M32D4DS-026 Microsoft Windows 11 Home Build 26100 - 10.0.26100.1150 - 32.0.11016.6004
370xmore 4 Systems - 44 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 - ASUS Zenbook S 16 UM5606WA_UM5606WA UM5606WA v1.0 - AMD Device 1507 Ubuntu 24.04 - 6.10.0-phx - GNOME Shell 46.0
dddd 4 Systems - 92 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X 64-Core - Gigabyte TRX40 AORUS PRO WIFI - AMD Starship Pop 22.04 - 6.8.0-76060800daily20240311-generic - GNOME Shell 42.5
extr Featured Processor Comparison	Intel Core i9-14900K - ASUS PRIME Z790-P WIFI - Intel Raptor Lake-S PCH Ubuntu 24.04 - 6.10.0-061000rc2-generic - GNOME Shell 46.0
ddd 2 Systems - 29 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 7 4700U - LENOVO IdeaPad 5 14ARE05 LNVNB161216 - AMD Renoir Ubuntu 24.04 - 6.10.0-phx - GNOME Shell 46.0
5950X Featured Processor Comparison	AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 16-Core - ASUS ROG CROSSHAIR VIII HERO - AMD Starship Ubuntu 24.04 - 6.10.0-061000rc2-generic - GNOME Shell 46.0
ddd 2 Systems - 29 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 7 4700U - LENOVO IdeaPad 5 14ARE05 LNVNB161216 - AMD Renoir Ubuntu 24.04 - 6.10.0-phx - GNOME Shell 46.0
lz4 adl 2 Systems - 10 Benchmark Results	Intel Core i7-1280P - MSI Prestige 14Evo A12M MS-14C6 - Intel Alder Lake PCH Ubuntu 24.04 - 6.10.0-061000rc4daily20240621-generic - GNOME Shell 46.0
aiggy 2 Systems - 62 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen 7 3800XT 8-Core - MSI X370 XPOWER GAMING TITANIUM - AMD Starship Debian 12 - 6.1.0-22-amd64 - X Server 1.20.11
new 3 Systems - 29 Benchmark Results	AMD Ryzen AI 9 365 - ASUS Zenbook S 16 UM5606WA_UM5606WA UM5606WA v1.0 - AMD Device 1507 Ubuntu 24.04 - 6.10.0-phx - GNOME Shell 46.0

LZ4 Compression

Project Site

Source Repository

Test Created

Last Updated

Test Maintainer

Test Type

Average Install Time

Average Run Time

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Accolades

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Suites Using This Test

Performance Metrics

LZ4 Compression 1.10

Compression Level: 12 - Decompression Speed

Does It Scale Well With Increasing Cores?

Notable Instruction Set Usage

Tested CPU Architectures

Recent Test Results

Most Popular Test Results