Earlier this month Canonical announced Ubuntu Linux support for the Orange Pi RV2 as a low-cost RISC-V developer board. The Orange Pi RV2 with eight RISC-V cores and 8GB of RAM costs just around $64 USD. The price point and specs were interesting that I ordered one and have been running performance benchmarks on it since for seeing how capable this is as finally an interesting, low-cost and readily available RISC-V board.

  • Treczoks@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    Sadly, being the best-performing RISC-V board means nothing. As long as they are only comparable to cortex-level ARM SOCs speedwise, they will not be a significant factor.