| BIOS & Drivers
 
| Test
Settings |
Compressed Size
(bytes) |
% Of Original |
Compression Time
(s) |
| Fast |
WinZip 7.0 |
32,781,256 |
51.80% |
23 |
| WinZip 8.0 |
32,781,372 |
51.80% |
27 |
| Normal |
WinZip 7.0 |
32,059,666 |
50.66% |
27 |
| WinZip 8.0 |
32,059,782 |
50.66% |
30 |
| Max |
WinZip 7.0 |
31,888,939 |
50.39% |
62 |
| WinZip 8.0 |
31,889,055 |
50.39% |
65 |
As you can see, WinZip can roughly
cut the size of the average driver package by
half. The compression performance of both WinZip
7.0 and 8.0 was not significantly affected by the
different compression method used (Fast, Normal or
Max).
But from a compression
efficiency point of view, the Normal
setting is the most efficient. At the Normal
setting, both WinZip 7.0 and 8.0 showed only
slightly poorer compression but at a significantly
higher compression speed (more than twice as fast
actually).
You will also notice that WinZip
7.0 consistently performed better than WinZip 8.0.
The ZIP archives produced by WinZip 8.0 were
always 116 bytes more than the archives
produced by WinZip 7.0. That's really peanuts,
compared to the total size of the files tested (63,288,349
bytes). In other words, the difference is only 0.000183%!
More important is the
compression speed, which have fallen somewhat.
WinZip 8.0 is now 8.2% slower than WinZip
7.0. That means the total time taken by WinZip 8.0
to complete the three tests was 10 seconds
longer than the time taken by WinZip 7.0.
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Documents
 
| Test
Settings |
Compressed Size
(bytes) |
% Of Original |
Compression Time
(s) |
| Fast |
WinZip 7.0 |
22,218,741 |
37.84% |
25 |
| WinZip 8.0 |
22,218,847 |
37.84% |
26 |
| Normal |
WinZip 7.0 |
21,271,235 |
36.22% |
28 |
| WinZip 8.0 |
21,271,341 |
36.22% |
28 |
| Max |
WinZip 7.0 |
21,116,299 |
35.96% |
73 |
| WinZip 8.0 |
21,116,405 |
35.96% |
74 |
With highly compressible spreadsheet and word
processor documents, WinZip can almost cut their
sizes to a third. Using the Normal
compression mode improved the compression ratio of
the Fast setting by 7.2% but using
the Max compression mode merely improved on
that by a mere percent.
With a compression speed close
to that of the Fast setting, the Normal
setting is the most efficient setting. In
contrast, the Max setting suffered a 62%
drop in compression speed in return for an
improvement in compression of only 1%.
Again, WinZip 7.0 consistently
performed better than WinZip 8.0. The ZIP archives
produced by WinZip 8.0 were always 106 bytes
more than the archives produced by WinZip 7.0.
That's really insignificant compared to the total
size of the files tested (58,722,263 bytes). In
other words, the difference is only 0.000181%!
More important is the
compression speed, which have fallen a little.
WinZip 8.0 is now 1.6% slower than WinZip
7.0. The total time taken by WinZip 8.0 to
complete the three tests was about 2 seconds
longer than the time taken by WinZip 7.0. Again,
this is nothing great but still, for a newer
version of WinZip, one would have expected some
gain, not loss.
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