RISC-V GPUs

Will a RISC-V GPU be risky?

December 29, 2025

Jon Peddie

RISC-V GPUs didn’t appear overnight. In 2019, Think Silicon stepped onto the RISC-V Summit stage with NEOX V, the first public demo of a RISC-V-based programmable GPU. Researchers soon followed with projects like Vortex, proving the idea on FPGA and publishing real silicon concepts. Since then, enthusiasts and start-ups have kept pushing. Products lag because no shared GPU ISA exists, but momentum builds. By 2026, early commercial RISC-V GPUs should finally emerge, with APIs masking architectural quirks. The first public announcement of using RISC-V for GPU shader/vector processing that we know of was by Think Silicon in December 2019 with

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