For those who don't know, RISC-V is an open-source chip architecture competing with the proprietary NVIDIA, AMD, and Intel chips. Developed originally in the US about fifteen years ago, released...
As you can see from the wide range of benchmarks carried out, the SiFive HiFive Premier P550 has advanced a great deal compared to the HiFive Unmatched RISC-V developer board from around 2021. RISC-V CPU designs have advanced a lot and the RISC-V software ecosystem as a whole has continued to improve. The SiFive HiFive Premier P550 tended to be multiple times faster than the HiFive Unmatched. The performance relative to the Raspberry Pi 4 and Raspberry Pi 5 ARM SBCs varied but in some workloads the SiFive P550 was outperforming the Raspberry Pi 4 (400).
Some of the performance difference between the SiFive HiFive Premier P550 and Raspberry Pi (ARM) can come down to not as many software projects yet effectively optimizing for RISC-V. It will also be interesting to see how performant the next-generation SiFive CPU core designs pan out.
For those who don't know, RISC-V is an open-source chip architecture competing with the proprietary NVIDIA, AMD, and Intel chips. Developed originally in the US about fifteen years ago, released to the world, and recently undertaking a lot of research and development between China and the Universities here. The progress has been incredible, the Chinese government is now about to begin investing billions in the development, and pledge to keep the design open-source (which if you know anything about Chinese culture and intellectual property law is that they don't have really have any. Everything is 'practically' open-source by default, culturally, and by law) so you can likely hold them to it.
The fact that an open-sourced design is now capable (without performance tuning, or optimizations) to be closely on par with the raspberry pi and their ARM system-on-a-chip is incredibly, especially since it's relatively tripled in speed and capabilities in less than four years.
For those who don't know, RISC-V is an open-source chip architecture competing with the proprietary NVIDIA, AMD, and Intel chips. Developed originally in the US about fifteen years ago, released to the world, and recently undertaking a lot of research and development between China and the Universities here. The progress has been incredible, the Chinese government is now about to begin investing billions in the development, and pledge to keep the design open-source (which if you know anything about Chinese culture and intellectual property law is that they don't have really have any. Everything is 'practically' open-source by default, culturally, and by law) so you can likely hold them to it.
The fact that an open-sourced design is now capable (without performance tuning, or optimizations) to be closely on par with the raspberry pi and their ARM system-on-a-chip is incredibly, especially since it's relatively tripled in speed and capabilities in less than four years.