diff --git a/.github/workflows/build.yml b/.github/workflows/build.yml
index f738edefc4..fd251ac4c2 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/build.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/build.yml
@@ -1532,7 +1532,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Test
         id: ggml-ci
         run: |
-          LLAMA_ARG_THREADS=$(nproc) bash ./ci/run.sh ./tmp/results ./tmp/mnt
+          LLAMA_ARG_THREADS=$(nproc) GG_BUILD_HIGH_PERF=1 bash ./ci/run.sh ./tmp/results ./tmp/mnt
 
   ggml-ci-arm64-cpu-high-perf:
     runs-on: ubuntu-22.04-arm
@@ -1558,7 +1558,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Test
         id: ggml-ci
         run: |
-          LLAMA_ARG_THREADS=$(nproc) GG_BUILD_NO_SVE=1 GG_BUILD_NO_BF16=1 GG_BUILD_EXTRA_TESTS_0=1 bash ./ci/run.sh ./tmp/results ./tmp/mnt
+          LLAMA_ARG_THREADS=$(nproc) GG_BUILD_HIGH_PERF=1 GG_BUILD_NO_SVE=1 GG_BUILD_NO_BF16=1 GG_BUILD_EXTRA_TESTS_0=1 bash ./ci/run.sh ./tmp/results ./tmp/mnt
 
   ggml-ci-arm64-cpu-high-perf-sve:
     runs-on: ubuntu-22.04-arm
diff --git a/ci/run.sh b/ci/run.sh
index dfcf959661..96755ea13e 100755
--- a/ci/run.sh
+++ b/ci/run.sh
@@ -635,6 +635,29 @@ function gg_check_build_requirements {
     fi
 }
 
+function gg_run_test_backend_ops_cpu {
+    cd ${SRC}
+
+    cd build-ci-release
+
+    set -e
+
+    (time ./bin/test-backend-ops -b CPU ) 2>&1 | tee -a $OUT/${ci}-test-backend-ops-cpu.log
+
+    set +e
+}
+
+function gg_sum_test_backend_ops_cpu {
+    gg_printf '### %s\n\n' "${ci}"
+
+    gg_printf 'Runs test-backend-ops for CPU backend\n'
+    gg_printf '- status: %s\n' "$(cat $OUT/${ci}.exit)"
+    gg_printf '```\n'
+    gg_printf '%s\n' "$(cat $OUT/${ci}-test-backend-ops-cpu.log)"
+    gg_printf '```\n'
+    gg_printf '\n'
+}
+
 ## main
 
 export LLAMA_LOG_PREFIX=1
@@ -663,6 +686,10 @@ ret=0
 test $ret -eq 0 && gg_run ctest_debug
 test $ret -eq 0 && gg_run ctest_release
 
+if [ ! -z ${GG_BUILD_HIGH_PERF} ]; then
+    test $ret -eq 0 && gg_run test_backend_ops_cpu
+fi
+
 if [ -z ${GG_BUILD_LOW_PERF} ]; then
     test $ret -eq 0 && gg_run embd_bge_small
     test $ret -eq 0 && gg_run rerank_tiny