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by LeFantome 32 days ago
I imagine the issue is not having hardware to test. Or, at least, not having a test environment for that hardware.

Probably the only hardware they tested for this article was the K3 and the only recent test results they had that were slow enough were the Pi 500+, the P550, and Loongson. I agree though that comparing it to 10 different Ryzens is not super useful.

The Pi and the P550 are what people are comparing it against. And showing how much slower it still is compared to modern x86-86 is useful too. Something like the RK3588 would have been interesting.

This shows that RISC-V has improved a lot compared to itself, that it is becoming competitive with ARM, and that it has a long way to go to the high-end desktop. That is about the right story to tell.