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Alibaba Reports Their XT910 RISC-V Core To Be Faster Than An Arm Cortex-A73
A few weeks back Alibaba announced the "XT910" as the fastest RISC-V processor featuring 16 cores and clock speeds up to 2.5GHz while being manufactured on a 12nm node. This by far beats most RISC-V hardware currently available and now at this week's Hot Chips conference the Chinese company is reporting that the XT910 is faster than an Arm Cortex-A73.
Alibaba confirmed the XT910 as a TSMC 12nm FinFET design with clock speeds between 2.0GHz and 2.5GHz for this RISC-V 64-bit processor supporting the RISC-V 0.7.1 Vector Extension.
Benchmarks posted by Alibaba's T-Head organization put the XT910 faster than an Arm Cortex-A73 found within the Kirin 970 SoC in areas across automotive, consumer, networking, and telecom spaces.
Cortex-A73 (launched in 2016) reportedly has less floating point IPC than its Cortex-A72 predecessor (found in the Raspberry Pi 4B). ARM's latest performance-oriented cores are the Cortex-A78 and Cortex-X1.
Previously: Alibaba Announces a 16-Core RISC-V CPU
Related: ARM Cortex A73 Unveiled
ARM Cortex-A75, Cortex-A55, and Mali-G72 Announced
ARM Announces Cortex-A78 and Cortex-X1
(Score: 3, Insightful) by driverless on Wednesday August 19 2020, @06:56AM
While it'd be nice to be able to play with a full-on RISC-V Linux box that doesn't cost an ARM and a leg, I'll believe it when I see it. There's just too much RISC-V vapourware/only-works-in-the-labware out there.