Intel FRED Can Yield Greater Performance - FRED Benchmarks On Panther Lake
Written by Michael Larabel in Processors on 23 March 2026 at 11:20 AM EDT. Page 4 of 6. 14 Comments.
👁 ClickHouse benchmark with settings of 100M Rows Hits Dataset, Throughput. fred=on was the fastest.
👁 ClickHouse benchmark with settings of 100M Rows Hits Dataset, Throughput. fred=on was the fastest.
FRED presented a compelling case in database workloads.
Across all the database workloads tested, FRED was showing some nice results while in some cases like PostgreSQL the performance gains were especially jaw dropping.
Pretty solid gains out of Intel FRED on Panther Lake for I/O intensive workloads, once knowing to manually enable it with the "fred=on" kernel option until there is a default change made.
The SQLite embedded database performance was also faster with FRED, which is widely-used by various desktop applications and more.