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

22 Seconds

Average Run Time

8 Minutes, 15 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 20 November 2024.

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 356 public results since 22 July 2024 with the latest data as of 14 November 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 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

93rd

6657 ^{+/- 15}

Intel Core Ultra 9 285K

89th

6463 ^{+/- 9}

AMD Ryzen 9 7950X 16-Core

85th

6243 ^{+/- 76}

Intel Core i9-14900K

85th

6163 ^{+/- 84}

Intel Core i9-13900K

80th

6016 ^{+/- 68}

Intel Core Ultra 5 245K

78th

5970 ^{+/- 4}

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7980X 64-Cores

78th

5963 ^{+/- 33}

AMD Ryzen 5 7600 6-Core

76th

5916 ^{+/- 23}

Mid-Tier

75th

< 5904

AMD Ryzen 7 7840HS

73rd

5466 ^{+/- 29}

Intel Core Ultra 7 256V

71st

5352

AMD Ryzen 7 7840U

68th

5190 ^{+/- 10}

AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 16-Core

68th

5174 ^{+/- 125}

2 x AMD EPYC 9755 128-Core

66th

4975 ^{+/- 64}

AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX

64th

4950 ^{+/- 12}

Intel Core i5-13400

63rd

4927 ^{+/- 6}

AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D 8-Core

63rd

4865

2 x AMD EPYC 9184X 16-Core

61st

4863 ^{+/- 2}

Intel Core i5-12600K

59th

4768 ^{+/- 6}

AMD Ryzen 5 5600G

59th

4764 ^{+/- 26}

AMD Ryzen 7 3800XT 8-Core

55th

4689 ^{+/- 52}

AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 6850U

55th

4677 ^{+/- 111}

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3970X 32-Core

54th

4615 ^{+/- 8}

Intel Core Ultra 7 155H

53rd

4603 ^{+/- 138}

AMD Ryzen 5 5500

53rd

4586 ^{+/- 16}

AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U

52nd

4577 ^{+/- 39}

Median

50th

4544

Intel Core i9-10980XE

47th

4416 ^{+/- 4}

Intel Core i7-1165G7

46th

4399 ^{+/- 19}

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X 64-Core

46th

4395 ^{+/- 10}

2 x AMD EPYC 9534 64-Core

43rd

4312

2 x AMD EPYC 9124 16-Core

41st

4309 ^{+/- 4}

AMD EPYC 7F32 8-Core

37th

4101 ^{+/- 2}

AMD Ryzen 7 4700U

36th

4092 ^{+/- 15}

2 x AMD EPYC 7773X 64-Core

30th

3857 ^{+/- 1}

2 x AMD EPYC 7303 16-Core

29th

3749 ^{+/- 2}

AMD EPYC 8534P 64-Core

27th

3654 ^{+/- 3}

AMD EPYC 8534PN 64-Core

27th

3652 ^{+/- 3}

Low-Tier

25th

< 3647

Intel Core i7-1065G7

25th

3642 ^{+/- 4}

ARMv8 Neoverse-V2 96-Core

24th

3596

Intel Xeon Silver 4216

8th

2781 ^{+/- 2}

ARMv8 Cortex-A72 16-Core

2nd

1090

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