News VisionFive 2 RISC-V Board Available For Pre-Order

[Admin]

A quad-core RISC-V based Raspberry Pi alternative is now available for preorder.

VisionFive 2 RISC-V Board Available For Pre-Order : Read more

 

[bit_user]

Cool news, but I think Intel's Horse Creek is perhaps a little more exciting: https://fuse.wikichip.org/news/7277...-horse-creek-dev-platform-on-intel-4-process/

Perhaps not as cheap or practical, for people just looking for a simple Pi-alternative.

 

[drajitsh]

hi -- in case of Risc V could you compare the CPU to a raspberry PI?

 

[bit_user]

hi -- in case of Risc V could you compare the CPU to a raspberry PI?

Slower than a Pi v4. Especially this one. Perhaps almost as fast as a Pi v3?

The chip used on that Horse Creek board I linked should be much better, but I think it might still lack SIMD/vector extensions.

 

[Findecanor]

The chip used on that Horse Creek board I linked should be much better, but I think it might still lack SIMD/vector extensions.

Yep, and the RISC-V CPUs in the article too lack vector units.
I'd think that's because the V-extension spec is still too new.
The RISC-V cores I've seen with SIMD units so far have had some proprietary extension.