Softcores on FPGAs tend to be used for housekeeping and babysitting silicon IP blocks. They never handle any actual data processing, because doing so in the fab

Softcores on FPGAs tend to be used for housekeeping and babysitting silicon IP blocks. They never handle any actual data processing, because doing so in the fabric is orders of magnitude faster. The fastest softcore cpu at maybe 400mhz on a thousand-dollar FPGA is hardly faster than the slowest risc-V silicon.