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

I've completed the experiments proposed and compiled a new comparison of the results.

I did create a new EC2 c7i.4xlarge instance with a customized CPU setting of 1 to disable hyperthreading. I re-ran the benchmark I am using using the "default" gcc compiler settings as was used in the c7i,4xlarge instance with hyperthreading enabled (its default as you noted).