Is RISC-V ready for High Performance Computing? An evaluation of the Sophon SG2044
Nick Brown · 2025
The pace of RISC-V adoption continues to grow rapidly, yet for the successes enjoyed in areas such as embedded computing, RISC-V is yet to gain ubiquity in High Performance Computing (HPC). The Sophon SG2044 is a next generation 64-core high performance CPU that has been designed for workstation and server grade workloads. Building upon the Sophon SG2042, subsystems that were a bottleneck in the previous generation have been upgraded.