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SiFive HiFive Premier P550 RISC-V Linux Performance

([Computers] 3 Hours Ago 8 Comments)


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SiFive recently sent over a review sample of the much anticipated HiFive Premier P550 developer board, their newest RISC-V creation featuring four RISC-V cores, Imagination AXM-8-256 integrated GPU, Gigabit Ethernet, PCIe x16 slot, and 16GB or 32GB of RAM. The HiFive Premier P550 is a modern RISC-V developer board capable of desktop uses, developer build boxes, and similar with pricing starting out at $399 USD. Here is a look at the SiFive HiFive Premier P550 as well as comparison benchmarks of this RISC-V board to the popular Raspberry Pi single board computers.

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Nearly five years ago SiFive launched the [3]HiFive Unmatched as frankly the first interesting RISC-V developer board. It was nice for its time especially with RISC-V software support being more primitive than, but was nice with 16GB of RAM and allowing a discrete graphics card. The past number of months SiFive has been working on delivering the [4]HiFive Premier as their newest development board featuring their newer P550 RISC-V cores and improved specs over their original developer board.

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Over the HiFive Unmatched, the HiFive Premier P550 features much faster RISC-V CPU cores, the option of 32GB RAM, and the pricing is also more competitive in starting out at $399 USD (or $499 USD for the model with 32GB of LPDDR5 RAM). The HiFive Premier P550 features 128GB eMMC storage, Imagination integrated graphics, an integrated ~20 TOPS NPU, Gigabit Ethernet, an M.2 Key E connector, and a PCIe x16 slot providing PCIe Gen3 x4 connectivity.

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The SiFive HiFive Premier P550 is compatible with mini-ITX cases and can be powered by a standard ATX power supply. There are also three fan headers on the board, 40-pin I/O header, and other connectivity options similar to the HiFive Unmatched.

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[1] https://www.phoronix.com/image-viewer.php?id=sifive-hifive-premier-p550&image=sifive_hifive_p550_1_lrg

[2] https://www.phoronix.com/image-viewer.php?id=sifive-hifive-premier-p550&image=sifive_hifive_p550_2_lrg

[3] https://www.phoronix.com/search/HiFive+Unmatched

[4] https://www.phoronix.com/search/HiFive+Premier

[5] https://www.phoronix.com/image-viewer.php?id=sifive-hifive-premier-p550&image=sifive_hifive_p550_3_lrg

[6] https://www.phoronix.com/image-viewer.php?id=sifive-hifive-premier-p550&image=sifive_hifive_p550_4_lrg

[7] https://www.phoronix.com/image-viewer.php?id=sifive-hifive-premier-p550&image=sifive_hifive_p550_5_lrg



"No program is perfect,"
They said with a shrug.
"The customer's happy--
What's one little bug?"

But he was determined, Then change two, then three more,
The others went home. As year followed year.
He dug out the flow chart And strangers would comment,
Deserted, alone. "Is that guy still here?"

Night passed into morning. He died at the console
The room was cluttered Of hunger and thirst
With core dumps, source listings. Next day he was buried
"I'm close," he muttered. Face down, nine edge first.

Chain smoking, cold coffee, And his wife through her tears
Logic, deduction. Accepted his fate.
"I've got it!" he cried, Said "He's not really gone,
"Just change one instruction." He's just working late."
-- The Perfect Programmer