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Re:BeagleV – An affordable RISC-V computer designed to run L... by tyingq on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @09:21AM (#25762227)
The Rpi4B has a Quad-core Cortex-A72 (ARM v8) 64-bit SoC @ 1.5 GHz with 1MB L2 cache. The A72 claims 4.7 DMIPS/MHz.

This board has a Dual-core U74 (RV64GC) 64-bit SoC @ 1.5 GHz with 2MB L2 cache. The U74 claims 2.5 DMIPS/MHz.

So, roughly 1/4 as fast as a RPIi 4B given the roughly half DMIPS/MHz and half the cores?

That, of course, is a really rough guess, ignoring lots of potential variables.

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Re:BeagleV – An affordable RISC-V computer designed to run L... by brucehoult on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @09:48AM (#25762589)
The CPU cores are comparable to the ARM A55, rather than the A72.

It's more MHz and a better uarch than the cores in a Pi 3, so should outperform even the newer Pi 3+ on tasks that don't use NEON and don't use more than 2 cores.

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Re:BeagleV – An affordable RISC-V computer designed to run L... by jgjot-singh on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @09:53AM (#25762674)
Would this have any sort of meaningful impact on sound/music related processing? E.g I am thinking of vst applications running inside DAWs
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Re:BeagleV – An affordable RISC-V computer designed to run L... by asd4 on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @10:10AM (#25762887)
On the list of features: "Dedicated Audio Processing DSP and sub-system".

The hardware might be there to do some good audio processing, but how it integrates with the OS is something I'm not experienced with.

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