13th Gen Intel Core i9-13900K Crushes Core i9-12900K in 7-Zip Benchmark: Up to 60% Faster Decompression

[Tsing]

Intel's next flagship CPU might be of particular interest to users who manage a lot of zip files.

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[Grimlakin]

I mean... that's more the realm of batch processing and if they are not bringing their Litte/Big processing to the Server line I don't really care about the performance of compression and decompression. I mean other than when I'm installing or downloading games from Steam.

 

[Burticus]

I'm confused why 7zip as a benchmark is relevant for... anything real world. I mean who personally needs to compress a zillion files?

I'm much more interested in real world things, like video encoding or actual benchmarks. But hey, Intel gotta be Intel I guess.

 

[Niner51]

Hardly a reason to upgrade from my 12900K. I don't remember ever looking at zip files for a reason to upgrade a cpu.

 

[Brian_B]

There is a lot of stuff that uses compression in the background that you don't always realize - a lot of network traffic, video game files (remember WAD files?), some file systems (you can enable file compression in Windows if you wanted to) etc. SSDs often do it in hardware.

Now, not all of that is necessarily zip. Just saying sometimes it exists in places you wouldn't expect it to.

That also isn't exactly a reason to do a benchmark just on ZIP.... if it exists in a lot of unexpected places, then the effects of that should show up in real world benchmarking.

 

[Grimlakin]

There is a lot of stuff that uses compression in the background that you don't always realize - a lot of network traffic, video game files (remember WAD files?), some file systems (you can enable file compression in Windows if you wanted to) etc. SSDs often do it in hardware.

Now, not all of that is necessarily zip. Just saying sometimes it exists in places you wouldn't expect it to.

That also isn't exactly a reason to do a benchmark just on ZIP.... if it exists in a lot of unexpected places, then the effects of that should show up in real world benchmarking.

I agree with you that it does exist in a lot of places. But I have the distinct impression that it is NOT multithreaded in many of those self same places. For instance the built in windows decompression tool is apparently not multithreaded even in Windows 11. Yet Winrar is. Things of that nature are where I have questions.