[2309.00381] Is RISC-V ready for HPC prime-time: Evaluating the 64-core Sophon SG2042 RISC-V CPU

The Sophon SG2042 is a commodity 64-core RISC-V CPU that delivers between five and ten times the performance compared to the nearest widely available RISC-V hardware. However, high performance x86 CPUs still outperform the SG2042 for multi-threaded workloads.