RISC-V was supposed to change everything—How's it going?

RISC-V shenanigans with GPUs and AAA games on the HiFive Premier P550.

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Resources mentioned in this video:

SiFive HiFive Premier P550: www.sifive.com/boards/hifive-premier-p550
ALL my test data: github.com/geerlingguy/sbc-reviews/issues/65
Guide for installing Box64, Box32, and Wine on the P550: www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/build-box64-box32-x…
Explaining Computers P550 Overview:    • HiFive Premier P550: Powerful SiFive ...  
Chips and Cheese Article on P550: chipsandcheese.com/p/a-risc-v-progress-check-bench…

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Contents:

00:00 - RISC architecture's gonna change everything
01:14 - The fastest RISC-V Dev Board
03:24 - Hardware overview and quirks
05:13 - Potential, not realized
06:25 - PCIe - NVMe performance
07:40 - PCIe - AMD GPU support
08:58 - What about AAA Windows x86 games?
11:52 - What about Indie Windows x86 games?
12:23 - LLMs make more sense than games
13:39 - You probably won't buy it