Cloud Mercato tested CPU performance using a range of encryption speed tests:
Cloud Mercato's tested the I/O performance of this instance using a 100GB General Purpose SSD. Below are the results:
I/O rate testing is conducted with local and block storages attached to the instance. Cloud Mercato uses the well-known open-source tool FIO. To express IOPS the following parametersare used: 4K block, random access, no filesystem (except for write access with root volume and avoidance of cache and buffer.
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running the decision support workload on the c6i.12xlarge instance enabled by 3rd Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors with Granulate cost 22% less than the c5.12xlarge instance with Granulate.

the c6i.12xlarge instance enabled by 3rd Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors with Granulate delivered up to 28% greater performance over the c5.12xlarge instance with Granulate.

Enabling Granulate on c6i.12xlarge improved performance by 43%.

22% less cost to run a decision support workload on AWS c6i.12xlarge instances with Granulate vs. c5.12xlarge instances also with Granulate.

28% better decision support performance on AWS c6i.12xlarge instances with Granulate vs. c5.12xlarge also with Granulate.

Speed decision support performance by up to 43% on 48vCPU instances with Granulate vs. without Granulate.

If you have a compute-intensive application — maybe scientific modelling, intensive machine learning, or multiplayer gaming — these instances are a good choice.

I am just now trying to change the instance type and it's only letting me use the c6i platform - I was HOPING I could go to the c7g platform actually as the performance vs cost is stellar.