RISC-V, a new chip architecture, is making its way in the tech world. Find out more about its background and how it’s supported in FreeBSD in this article.
Keep in mind RISC-V is an architecture and not a processor. That’s like saying ARM is slower than x86. If you said that everyone would say “OK, comparing which implementations?”
Yes, but this is pretty much the fastest market available RISK-V CPU and it is absolutely destroyed performance wise by a RasberryPI 400. And in addition this CPU uses a lot of close-source extensions to increase performance.
I am hopeful that RISK-V might at some point be useable as a main CPU, but it is still a long way before that will be feasible as far as I can tell.
Performance wise it is still very underwelming even with a lot of closed source extensions: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=hifive-unmatched-benchmarks&num=1
Keep in mind RISC-V is an architecture and not a processor. That’s like saying ARM is slower than x86. If you said that everyone would say “OK, comparing which implementations?”
Yes, but this is pretty much the fastest market available RISK-V CPU and it is absolutely destroyed performance wise by a RasberryPI 400. And in addition this CPU uses a lot of close-source extensions to increase performance.
I am hopeful that RISK-V might at some point be useable as a main CPU, but it is still a long way before that will be feasible as far as I can tell.