diff --git a/test_runner/performance/test_sharded_ingest.py b/test_runner/performance/test_sharded_ingest.py
index 77e8f2cf17..b6bf6dffa1 100644
--- a/test_runner/performance/test_sharded_ingest.py
+++ b/test_runner/performance/test_sharded_ingest.py
@@ -15,16 +15,21 @@ from fixtures.neon_fixtures import (
 
 @pytest.mark.timeout(600)
 @pytest.mark.parametrize("shard_count", [1, 8, 32])
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("wal_receiver_protocol", ["vanilla", "interpreted"])
 def test_sharded_ingest(
     neon_env_builder: NeonEnvBuilder,
     zenbenchmark: NeonBenchmarker,
     shard_count: int,
+    wal_receiver_protocol: str,
 ):
     """
     Benchmarks sharded ingestion throughput, by ingesting a large amount of WAL into a Safekeeper
     and fanning out to a large number of shards on dedicated Pageservers. Comparing the base case
     (shard_count=1) to the sharded case indicates the overhead of sharding.
     """
+    neon_env_builder.pageserver_config_override = (
+        f"wal_receiver_protocol = '{wal_receiver_protocol}'"
+    )
 
     ROW_COUNT = 100_000_000  # about 7 GB of WAL