#Which is better winrar or winzip full
#Which is better winrar or winzip zip
#Which is better winrar or winzip free

#Which is better winrar or winzip zip

One interesting note here, Winace beat Winzip zipx and from this result, Winzip 12 zipx file format doesn’t offer significant advantage compare to legacy zip format. Regarding time required, winrar still the fastest and 7zip trail it pretty close. Source : Joomla_1.5.11-Stable-Full_Package (to represent web content)ħzip still beat em’ all in this test.

But, if JPEG compression is your top priority, look no further Winzip 12 should be your answer. However, even in jpeg department, 7zip still able to outperform winrar and winace. Winrar however still a freak demon here and 7zip follow closely behind it. Albeit it require the most time here, but 25% of files size reduction is an amazing achievement especially when we used to think that JPEG files no longer can be compressed effectively due to its highly compress nature. Time required to compress this folder : 6 minutes and 10 secondsĪmazingly, only Winzip 12.1 able to compress jpeg files effectively. Time required to compress this folder : 5 minutes and 37 seconds

Time required to compress this folder : 3 minutes and 51 seconds Time required to compress this folder : 4 minutes and 16 seconds Source folders is a 300 MB folders, consist of 157 JPEG files. Let see how good Winzip 12 compare to other file compressor.Ĭompression Configuration : Best possible (still same as above)Ĭandidate Version : Exactly same as above screenshot

#Which is better winrar or winzip full

To be fair to Winzip 12.1 which their developer also claim that Winzip 12 now has better algorithm to compress JPEG files, I decide to run another test which is compressing a folder which is full of JPEG files (pictures from my Olympus pocket camera and Nokia N73). 7zip able to compress file 2x better than winrar, but it also need 2x more time compare to Winrar J If size does matter, I full heartedly choose 7zip. Winzip compress time still bearable (68 seconds) which is 3.4x more than WinRar but what interest me here, 7zip doesn’t fall behind Winrar too much. In other word, with almost identical compress capability, Winrar is 8.3x faster than WinAce.

While Winace require 166 seconds to do the very same job, Winrar just need 20 seconds to complete this task. However, among all these candidates, if compress time is your concern than Winrar ace this test. 7zip can compress almost 2 times better than winrar and winace and amazingly, more than 3x better than what Wizip 12.1 (with zipx enable) can achieve.

#Which is better winrar or winzip free

And yet, 7zip is an open source and completely free software. Time required to completely compress this folder : 1 minutes 8 seconds.įrom this simple test, clearly 7zip still the best files compressor. Time required to completely compress this folder : 20 secs Time required to completely compress this folder : 2 minutes and 46 secs Time required to completely compress this folder : 42 secs Notice that size on disk almost 20 MB more than actual size which indicate a lot of under 4 kB files in this folder. Consist of 7448 files (from sql, text, bin, exe, aip etc). So, I guess it would be nice if I could compare Winzip, Winrar, 7zip and WinAce best compression algorithm.Īn OsRose Dev Rev 358 folders. Furthermore, Winzip just launch their latest version of Winzip, known as Winzip 12.1 and according to their web, they are pretty confident with Winzip latest algorithm (zipx instead of good old zip). However, due to not so proper method that I used in that short test, the result is questionable. Couple of months ago, I posted a mini article regarding Winzip vs WinRar and 7zip and found out that 7zip beat em’ all.