# Milk-V Titan

10 Hacker News commenters recommended Milk-V Titan and 12 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 4 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** Mini-ITX RISC-V board praised for mainline support and UEFI/ACPI standards, but critics say it is slow, lacks the V vector extension, and ships without RAM.

## Why people recommend it

- Supports UEFI, ACPI, and SBI standards (2 comments): "The RISC-V server spec mandates UEFI, ACPI, and SBI. Here is a RISC-V "desktop" motherboard that has the same" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47746110)) "The Titan supports UEFI, ACPI, CPPC, and SMBIOS." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46710134))
- Handles workloads without problems (2 comments): "I have a Milk-V Titan that's paired with an AMD GPU running well" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49429698)) "this board handles no problem" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46690724))
- Good board with mainline support (2 comments): "It is actually a very good board, and now has a fully supported platform on mainline." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46672794)) "the board you linked looks very promising" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47772220))

## What people warn about

- Slow compared with Raspberry Pi 5 (4 comments): "it’s slow and still no V extension" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46668086)) "it's currently hard to be excited about RISC-V ITX boards with performance below that of a RPi5" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46667755)) "I think the optimized score would be in the 500s, but that's still a lot lower than Pi5." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46716486))
- Lacks the V vector extension (5 comments): "it’s slow and still no V extension" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46668086)) ""RVA23 except V" at this price point and at this point in time is a pretty bad value proposition." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46667609)) "The Titan has no SIMD/Vector support at all, so it doesn't support RVA23." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46679948))
- Poor value at this price (3 comments): ""RVA23 except V" at this price point and at this point in time is a pretty bad value proposition." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46667609)) "it implies that the sellers deem it a good product (when it obviously isn't.)" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46668502)) "But it's not really a good board, sadly" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46669264))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Abit BP6](https://hackerapproved.com/p/abit-bp6-motherboard.md): 7 recommend
- [ASRock motherboard](https://hackerapproved.com/p/asrock-motherboard.md): 6 recommend
- [X210Ai motherboard](https://hackerapproved.com/p/x210ai-motherboard.md): 5 recommend

## Where to get it

- [See price on Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Milk-V+Titan+Mini-ITX+RISC-V+motherboard&tag=hackerapprove-20) (affiliate link)
- [Official site](https://milkv.io/)

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Milk-V Titan", https://hackerapproved.com/p/milk-v-titan/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).