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  • kda - Tuesday, June 22, 2021 - link

    > Both cores are Linux capable, with full support for the RISC-V vector extension v1.0rc, (...)
    Are you sure that P550 is vector capable? The product page mentions it is a RV64GC ISA, which is missing the 'V' extension letter. On the other hand the P270 indeed is marked as RV64GCV ISA.
  • mode_13h - Wednesday, June 23, 2021 - link

    It's hard to see how a 3-wide dispatch core could approach the SPECint/GHz of a Cortex-A75, if it didn't have *some* kind of integer vector capability.
  • Wilco1 - Saturday, June 26, 2021 - link

    Especially since GCC's vectorization has improved significantly in recent years, which means higher SPEC scores for Cortex-A75. And without a vector unit it is rather easy to win on area...
  • kda - Tuesday, June 29, 2021 - link

    Maybe. However I can't find anywhere on the SiFive website (or the slides in this article) any mention of the P550 supporting the V ISA extension (vector ops).
    The P550 product page (https://www.sifive.com/cores/performance-p550) mentions that this core is an evolution of U84. The SiFive blog post clearly distinguishes between U84 as a "high performance core" and U87 as "hugh performance core with vector processing" (https://www.sifive.com/blog/incredibly-scalable-hi... Hence my confusion.
    That said, perhaps the P550 would have some SiFive specific ISA extensions in the hint instruction space.
  • mode_13h - Wednesday, June 30, 2021 - link

    The consensus seems to be that it does *not* have vector ALU!
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