7Zip 9.20

This well-known archive software contains within it a tool that can analyze system performance, reporting a value expressed in MIPS (million istruction per second). The test includes compression, decompression, and overall value.

In this compression and decompression test performed with 7-Zip the two Intel CPUs with 6 physical cores are able to get the absolute primacy of the performance to other AMD and Intel CPUs. The two models i7-3960X and i7-980X, have very similar performance, indicating that this software still does not exploit the full potential of the new architecture.

In the clock to clock test it becomes clear that 7-Zip is not to exploit the benefits of the new architecture, the same thing happened with the CPU i7-2600K which is seen ahead of the old architecture with the Lynnfield CPU i7-875K.