when i looked at risc V very early on a few years ago it was not going to be able to outperform available cortex-A ARM SoCs. eventually i settled for an 1.8GHz

when i looked at risc V very early on a few years ago it was not going to be able to outperform available cortex-A ARM SoCs. eventually i settled for an 1.8GHz A17. i’m interested in risc-V… but are we at the point yet where it is competitive compared to ARM SoCs? another issue i always deal with is that ARM SoCs come with lots of peripherals i don’t need and the ones i do need are not available in high enough numbers which means i need to attach an FPGA. (for example i2s ports). the GPU situation is also frustrating with hard to use binary drivers and a slow process of open sourcing the drivers with lots of tricky realtime issues that take forever to get fixed.