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Is 2021 the year of RISC-V on the desktop?
by webwielder2 6y ago
Is 2021 the year of RISC-V on the desktop?
- phire 6y agoIn a way, yes. Sifive is actually shipping the first RISC-V desktop form-factor motherboard early next year.
- the_duke 6y agoImportant to note that this board is basically a developer kit for adapting software or implementing drivers, not something intended for actual users. It's way too expensive/underpowered for that. Actual end user desktop/laptop/phone SoCs are probably years away (apart from specialised cores). I'd very much love to eventually have something like a Risc-V edition PineBook and PinePhone though.
- brucehoult 6y agoIt's hard to tell at this point, but it should be close to or even overall better than Pi 4 / Pi 400 performance -- worse CPU (but better than Pi 3+), but better and more RAM and better I/O e.g. M.2 SSD. And whatever real GPU you want to put on it instead of the fairly low end one on the Pi 4 -- SiFive are demonstrating their board with the Radeon RX580, a 150W $300 GPU but lower end ones should work fine too. All at a much higher price than a Pi, of course, but similar to x86 PCs. Compared to x86 PCs the CPU performance is probably around 2001 or so Pentium III or PPC G4 but, again, with everything else (16 GB DDR4 RAM, M.2 SD, GPU of your choice) current generation.
- oblio 6y agoI can't tell if you're joking or not.
- kzrdude 6y agoM1 is being delivered now, so it would be less of a guess to say that 2021 is the year of ARM on the (mainstream) desktop. With Raspberry pi 400, there's another desktop computer for the same prediction.