Software capacity and localization, zip itself has a large capacity and it has no Chinese version, only English version. If you need the Chinese version, you can only install the localization package yourself. Comparatively speaking, the installation package of rar is very small, and there is an official Chinese version. Software compression efficiency, the compression efficiency of rar is much higher than that of zip. For the same content, the compression efficiency of rar is higher than that of zip.
Format compatibility, rar can compress or decompress zip files, on the contrary, zip cannot decompress rar files. Rar format can provide better compression ratio. Zip is an open compressed file, and there is not only one algorithm. The advantage of zip is its high compression speed. Moreover, the rar format is private and has been patented. zip is open and free.
The compressed file format rar is better:
The format of rar file is better, and the compression ratio of rar is obviously higher than that of zip, which is equivalent to 7z. But both are lossless data compression. The compression ratio of RAR files is usually higher than that of ZIP files, but the compression speed is slower.
Because the RAR file header also occupies a certain space, when the space for data compression is small, the compressed file may be larger than the original file. One of the main advantages of RAR is that the file compression target can be divided into multiple files, and it is easy to extract the source files from the compressed files thus divided.
This compression mechanism is a very convenient invention, especially for network users, because it can reduce the total number of bits and bytes in the file, make the file transfer faster through the slow Internet connection, and also reduce the disk space occupied by the file.