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Running Ubuntu 22.04 for FPGA development
By B. J. Rosen on Reviewed in the United States on April 6, 2025
I benchmarked the performance of FPGA development tools for an AMD 9950X system against an Intel iCore9 13900K system. The relative performance was mixed. The tools tested were Xilinx Vivado, Altera Quartus Pro, Siemans Questa and a tool of my own, HDLmaker. Both systems were running Ubuntu 22.04. The Intel system was using the standard Ubuntu kernel, the AMD system was using the mainline Ubuntu kernel. The standard Ubuntu kernel lacks Ethernet drivers for the AMD board, the mainline kernel fully supports it. The Intel iCore9 13900K is faster for Vivado and Quartus Pro, The AMD 9950X is faster for Questa and HDLmaker. Enterprise AMD Ryzen™ 9 9950X 16-Core, 32-Thread 128G CORSAIR VENGEANCE DDR5 64GB (2x32GB) DDR5 6000MHz GIGABYTE X870 AORUS Elite WIFI7 AMD AM5 LGA 1718 Motherboard SAMSUNG 990 EVO Plus SSD 4TB, PCIe Gen 4x4 | Gen 5x2 M.2 2280 Ubuntu 24.04 Kernal 6.14.0-061400-generic Yorktown Intel Core i9-13900K - Core i9 13th Gen Raptor Lake 24-Core 128G CORSAIR Vengeance 64GB (2 x 32GB) 288-Pin PC RAM DDR5 5600 (PC5 44800) GIGABYTE Z790 AORUS ELITE AX LGA 1700 Intel Z790 ATX Motherboard with DDR5 Crucial P3 4TB PCIe 3.0 3D NAND NVMe M.2 SSD Ubuntu 22.04 Kernal 6.8.0-52-generic Vivado: 1 Enterprise: synth_design: Time (s): cpu = 00:36:12 ; elapsed = 00:35:42 . Memory (MB): peak = 26506.137 ; gain = 23587.469 ; free physical = 81568 ; free virtual = 447284 Enterprise: route_design: Time (s): cpu = 01:39:32 ; elapsed = 00:50:47 . Memory (MB): peak = 17087.441 ; gain = 1562.531 ; free physical = 77223 ; free virtual = 443027 Yorktown: synth_design: Time (s): cpu = 00:32:39 ; elapsed = 00:32:12 . Memory (MB): peak = 26503.715 ; gain = 23592.078 ; free physical = 25669 ; free virtual = 109780 Yorktown: route_design: Time (s): cpu = 01:43:56 ; elapsed = 00:50:48 . Memory (MB): peak = 17180.012 ; gain = 1554.500 ; free physical = 21966 ; free virtual = 105577 Vivado: 2 Enterprise: synth_design: Time (s): cpu = 00:19:07 ; elapsed = 00:19:01 . Memory (MB): peak = 13239.812 ; gain = 10322.176 ; free physical = 97811 ; free virtual = 446595 Enterprise: route_design: Time (s): cpu = 01:21:12 ; elapsed = 00:38:40 . Memory (MB): peak = 19368.762 ; gain = 0.000 ; free physical = 89228 ; free virtual = 437844 Yorktown: synth_design: Time (s): cpu = 00:18:10 ; elapsed = 00:18:06 . Memory (MB): peak = 13231.773 ; gain = 10319.141 ; free physical = 19164 ; free virtual = 108350 Yorktown: route_design: Time (s): cpu = 01:19:05 ; elapsed = 00:32:39 . Memory (MB): peak = 19666.379 ; gain = 0.000 ; free physical = 10503 ; free virtual = 99516 Vivado: 3 Enterprise: synth_design: Time (s): cpu = 00:22:29 ; elapsed = 00:22:23 . Memory (MB): peak = 13740.703 ; gain = 10819.066 ; free physical = 101952 ; free virtual = 447429 Enterprise: route_design: Time (s): cpu = 01:45:11 ; elapsed = 00:54:54 . Memory (MB): peak = 19997.387 ; gain = 0.000 ; free physical = 93311 ; free virtual = 438528 Yorktown: synth_design: Time (s): cpu = 00:21:39 ; elapsed = 00:21:38 . Memory (MB): peak = 13243.625 ; gain = 10321.988 ; free physical = 15590 ; free virtual = 107900 Yorktown: route_design: Time (s): cpu = 01:36:03 ; elapsed = 00:43:00 . Memory (MB): peak = 20184.555 ; gain = 0.000 ; free physical = 7075 ; free virtual = 99039 Questa: Enterprise: 57.441u 5.322s 1:04.50 Yorktown: 69.688u 8.815s 1:18.79 Quartus_pro: Enterprise: Elapsed time: 00:26:08 Yorktown: Elapsed time: 00:25:54 HDLmaker: Enterprise: 66.094u 12.343s 1:19.03 Yorktown: 72.277u 16.625s 1:29.01
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Pleasure to build with
By Ronin on Reviewed in the United States on May 15, 2023
I purchased this board while fighting with ASUS for a faulty ROG strix b650e-f, that was sent back missing parts, with oily residue all over it when I saw this board was on sale for $56 off making only $5 more that the aorus B650 elite I jumped all over it and you know what!, I'm glad I did. This board was a dream to build with everything is just so logical, great design and its boots fast something my Asus board could not do. I will update later but I remain cautiously optimistic that this Aorus x670 will remain a solid board for AM5. 6/9/23 Unlike my previous ROG Strix b650, no blue screens, no freezes, no having to constantly troubleshoot. Still very happy with it. 7/26/24 I love the aesthetics of this board and after dealing with Asus and their terrible customer service it was a pleasure to have a board that just worked and it so so for almost a year until it didn't. it recently had issues with random shutdowns, and after checking every component in backup pc(always keep two of the same socket), and reinstalling windows I RMA'd it back to Gigabyte. I dont overclock as a matter of fact I run my 7900x at 65 watts, it had great airflow, bios was recent, so I was crushed having to pull my perfect system apart. I have heard horror stories about gigabyte support so helping for the best. Ironically a $120 asrock b650 that I purchased while waiting for Asus to stop screwing around with my rog strix b650-e-has now outlasted and outclassed two $300 dollar boards from the two biggest motherboard manufacturers 8/24/24 I RMA'd the board, for one issue, and that issue seems to be resolved BUT while they had it apparently they had an issue with the onboard video which I never had so they fixed it right? WRONG!, they sent it back to me and literally as soon it the onboard video is plugged it it shuts down so I had to take my precious time to pull out the mobo which was looking amazing in the case with awesome cable management and waiti a few more weeks. First Asus, now Gigabyte has dropped the ball with AM5 board meanwhile my $120 asrock board has outlasted both the 3 ROG B650E boards from Asus, and Now the X670 board from gigabyte. I hope they fix it correctly or have the decency to send me a new replacement but if not I will be looking at other options 10/11/24 So I purchased a Asus tuf x670 and despite my experiences with the rog strix b650 and so far so good meaning I never used the aorus x670 until yesterday and despite either getting a replacement motherboard or mine fixed, not sure because two different people said two different things and surprise, it still had the same issues that I sent it for initially and this time I'm tired. Tired of the rude and sassy customer service rep who is a total d-bag, tired of the excuses, tired of paying to have my board sent to them for their issue so I will take the loss and toss this p.o s board in the garbage. Never again gigabyte, you lost a loyal customet
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