“Open hardware tax” is huge here, your impression is correct. Real 800MHz Dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 processor is on Terasic board while this has a soft core proce

“Open hardware tax” is huge here, your impression is correct. Real 800MHz Dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 processor is on Terasic board while this has a soft core processor. In my experience soft core can run at ~200 MHz best case. Then comes slower RAM and this limits overall possible applications. Unless somebody wants RISC-V badly.