SiFive HiFive Premier P550 RISC-V Linux Performance
As you can see from the wide range of benchmarks carried out, the SiFive HiFive Premier P550 has advanced a great deal compared to the HiFive Unmatched RISC-V developer board from around 2021. RISC-V CPU designs have advanced a lot and the RISC-V software ecosystem as a whole has continued to improve. The SiFive HiFive Premier P550 tended to be multiple times faster than the HiFive Unmatched. The performance relative to the Raspberry Pi 4 and Raspberry Pi 5 ARM SBCs varied but in some workloads the SiFive P550 was outperforming the Raspberry Pi 4 (400).
The HiFive Premier P550 performance relative to the Raspberry Pi ARM SoCs was also all the more impressive when considering it ran at a consistent 1.4GHz across its four cores compared to the Raspberry Pi 4 at around 1.7GHz and the Raspberry Pi 500 at 2.3GHz.
Thanks to SiFive for supplying the HiFive Premier P550 review sample and for those interested even more benchmarks can be found via this result page.
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