Intel Xeon 6780E "Sierra Forest" Linux Performance ~14% Faster Since Launch
Written by Michael Larabel in Processors on 22 January 2026 at 12:00 PM EST. Page 4 of 5. 2 Comments.
Some OpenSSL performance gains too out of the updated OS.
OpenVINO GenAI and other AI/LLM workloads are better suited for Granite Rapids but there were some minor gains seen on the AVX2-only Sierra Forest CPUs.
Some nice wins with QuantLib for quantitative finance performance on Sierra Forest.
Some rather hefty performance improvements for the Xeon 6780E server for the srsRAN software-defined radio software.