File Compression & Encryption:

Website: WinRAR

Our file compression and decompression tests were split into two halves to cover a broad spectrum of performance. The first test we ran was to compress and encrypt a 176MB MPEG-2 source file with the highest quality compression ratio. Secondly, we compressed and encrypted the folder of 400 photographs with the same compression settings.



Again the AMD 790GX is slightly slower than the slightly more expensive AMD 790FX and nForce 780a, although faster than the 780G that uses a lower power processor. The difference is not much - a couple of seconds at best.

File Decompression & Decryption:

The two RAR archives created during the compression and encryption tests were then decompressed and decrypted.



In decompression tests the 790GX is again slightly slower than the nForce 780a and 790FX, but still a slight bit faster than the 780G between the two tests, however there's very little difference across the field.