Intel's Pentium 4 3.06GHz: Hyper-Threading on Desktops

Archiving Performance

Everyone compresses & decompresses files, but some people do it more than others. For those that are seriously into storage, compressing data can be a very stressful task for your CPU and your platform. In order to test this we used WinRAR 3.00 and compressed a 100MB folder using the best possible compression setting:

Archiving Performance WinRAR 3.00 (Time in Seconds to Compress 100MB Directory using Best Compression) Intel Pentium 4-HT 3.06GHz Intel Pentium 4 2.80GHz Intel Pentium 4 2.53GHz Intel Pentium 4 2.26GHz AMD Athlon XP 2800+ (2.25GHz) Intel Pentium 4 2.0AGHz (400MHz FSB) AMD Athlon XP 2600+ (2.13GHz) AMD Athlon XP 2200+ (1.80GHz) Intel Pentium 4 1.8AGHz (400MHz FSB) AMD Athlon XP 2000+ (1.67GHz) AMD Athlon XP 1800+ (1.53GHz) 303 315 331 352 372 420 421 442 442 455 471 | 0 | 94 | 188 | 283 | 377 | 471 | 565

The Pentium 4 does very well under WinRAR and in this compression test in general, with the Pentium 4 3.06GHz taking the lead.