Unboxing the StarFive VisionFive 2 (RISC-V) - Testing Features & Performance

Thanks to StarFive for sending me this to try out. It was not sponsored at all, but they gave me the opportunity to try out a bloody excellent bit of hardware. I cannot wait to see what they do next, and I love how good they are at communication and how much they contribute to the open-source community and Linux kernel.

Correction: The processor is a StarFive JH7110, which uses the SiFive U74 core design.

Note that I DID find one other board actually, that I even have, with the JH7110; the Pine64 Star64! Ref: https://wiki.pine64.org/wiki/STAR64.

I think RISC-V is moving forward fast, and could be considered where Arm was maybe ten years ago at the most. So much of this can likely be refined and improved with just drivers and firmware though, so if you have something to contribute, that'd be awesome!

Product Page: https://www.starfivetech.com/en/site/...
Documentation: https://doc-en.rvspace.org/VisionFive...
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Software Images: https://debian.starfivetech.com/
Github Repo: https://github.com/starfive-tech/Visi...
Geekbench without cooling: https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/...
Geekbench with cooling: https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/... (I would say the tiny bit lower result is just random chance)

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Note: I think it crashed due to me handling it while booted and no ESD safety, not due to the hardware itself!

Reddit Discussions:   / starfive_visionfive_2_featuring_jh7110_soc...  

Chapters
00:00 Overview
01:38 Conspiracy
03:36 Hardware Close-up
07:29 First Boot & Power Oddities
10:21 The User Environment
12:14 Installing a Package
12:51 Expanding root (/) Partition
13:25 Some Use Cases
13:48 Testing Video Playback
14:49 It Crashed
15:28 Timing Boot
16:28 Timing Login
16:46 Timing Firefox
17:25 Trying to Load YouTube
17:55 Looking at Load Averages
19:03 Thermal Imaging the Board
19:31 Timing Video Load
19:51 Attempting Playback
20:38 Checking Load Again
21:19 Running Geekbench 6
22:00 Results Summary
22:22 Outro
22:47 Post-Test Cooling Results
24:11 More Thermal Imaging (Video Footage)

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