Milk-V Titan
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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.
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.
22 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 10
- criticize it
- 12
- approval share
- 45%
Recommended in 4 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: recommended
- April 2026: recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 10 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, met.
- 0.8 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, not met.
- Recommended in 4 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Supports UEFI, ACPI, and SBI standards
“The RISC-V server spec mandates UEFI, ACPI, and SBI. Here is a RISC-V "desktop" motherboard that has the same”
Comment from 13 Apr 2026 in “What is RISC-V and why it matters to Canonical” “The Titan supports UEFI, ACPI, CPPC, and SMBIOS.”
Comment from 21 Jan 2026 in “RISC-V is coming along quite speedily: Milk-V Titan Mini-ITX 8-core board” Handles workloads without problems
“I have a Milk-V Titan that's paired with an AMD GPU running well”
Comment from 25 Aug 2026 in “SiFive's First Server Platform” “this board handles no problem”
Comment from 20 Jan 2026 in “RISC-V is coming along quite speedily: Milk-V Titan Mini-ITX 8-core board” Good board with mainline support
“It is actually a very good board, and now has a fully supported platform on mainline.”
Comment from 18 Jan 2026 in “Milk-V Titan: A $329 8-Core 64-bit RISC-V mini-ITX board with PCIe Gen4x16” “the board you linked looks very promising”
Comment from 14 Apr 2026 in “What is RISC-V and why it matters to Canonical”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Slow compared with Raspberry Pi 5
“it’s slow and still no V extension”
Comment from 18 Jan 2026 in “Milk-V Titan: A $329 8-Core 64-bit RISC-V mini-ITX board with PCIe Gen4x16” “it's currently hard to be excited about RISC-V ITX boards with performance below that of a RPi5”
Comment from 18 Jan 2026 in “Milk-V Titan: A $329 8-Core 64-bit RISC-V mini-ITX board with PCIe Gen4x16” “I think the optimized score would be in the 500s, but that's still a lot lower than Pi5.”
Comment from 22 Jan 2026 in “RISC-V is coming along quite speedily: Milk-V Titan Mini-ITX 8-core board” - Comment from 18 Jan 2026 in “Milk-V Titan: A $329 8-Core 64-bit RISC-V mini-ITX board with PCIe Gen4x16”
Lacks the V vector extension
“it’s slow and still no V extension”
Comment from 18 Jan 2026 in “Milk-V Titan: A $329 8-Core 64-bit RISC-V mini-ITX board with PCIe Gen4x16” “"RVA23 except V" at this price point and at this point in time is a pretty bad value proposition.”
Comment from 18 Jan 2026 in “Milk-V Titan: A $329 8-Core 64-bit RISC-V mini-ITX board with PCIe Gen4x16” “The Titan has no SIMD/Vector support at all, so it doesn't support RVA23.”
Comment from 19 Jan 2026 in “RISC-V is coming along quite speedily: Milk-V Titan Mini-ITX 8-core board” - Comment from 18 Jan 2026 in “Milk-V Titan: A $329 8-Core 64-bit RISC-V mini-ITX board with PCIe Gen4x16”
- Comment from 19 Jan 2026 in “RISC-V is coming along quite speedily: Milk-V Titan Mini-ITX 8-core board”
Poor value at this price
“"RVA23 except V" at this price point and at this point in time is a pretty bad value proposition.”
Comment from 18 Jan 2026 in “Milk-V Titan: A $329 8-Core 64-bit RISC-V mini-ITX board with PCIe Gen4x16” “it implies that the sellers deem it a good product (when it obviously isn't.)”
Comment from 18 Jan 2026 in “Milk-V Titan: A $329 8-Core 64-bit RISC-V mini-ITX board with PCIe Gen4x16” “But it's not really a good board, sadly”
Comment from 18 Jan 2026 in “Milk-V Titan: A $329 8-Core 64-bit RISC-V mini-ITX board with PCIe Gen4x16”
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| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Milk-V TitanThis page | 10 | 12 | 45% | 4 | — | — |
| Abit BP6 | 7 | 1 | 88% | 1 | — | — |
| ASRock motherboard | 6 | 4 | 60% | 4 | — | — |
| X210Ai motherboard | 5 | 2 | 71% | 1 | — | — |
What people said
26 of the 27 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“I have a Milk-V Titan that's paired with an AMD GPU running well”
“the board you linked looks very promising”
“The RISC-V server spec mandates UEFI, ACPI, and SBI. Here is a RISC-V "desktop" motherboard that has the same”
“That board would be fine, thank you for the pointer.”
“can take up to 64GB which is fine considering the number of cores and the cost of RAM”
“The new Milk-V Titan has only 8.”
“the Milk-V Titan mentioned in the article (which still isn't out)”
“I think the optimized score would be in the 500s, but that's still a lot lower than Pi5.”
“The Titan supports UEFI, ACPI, CPPC, and SMBIOS.”
“this board handles no problem”
“the Titan is not; it lacks V”
“Boards like this are helpful for getting RISC-V to the next stage”
“The Titan has no SIMD/Vector support at all, so it doesn't support RVA23.”
“Luckily this board runs with old DDR4 sticks.”
“Probably a dealbreaker for me.”
“The Titan ships with empty RAM slots, and you'd wind up paying another ~$200 to get 2x16GB of DDR4”
“It is actually a very good board, and now has a fully supported platform on mainline.”
“you can't migrate threads between cores with different vector length”
“2.0ghz isn't a whole lot of performance for RISC-V system.”
“But it's not really a good board, sadly”
“it implies that the sellers deem it a good product (when it obviously isn't.)”
“it’s slow and still no V extension”
“They will then issue errata later, after millions of devices have been shipped.”
“These are very much developer/tinkerer only boards as is.”
“it's currently hard to be excited about RISC-V ITX boards with performance below that of a RPi5”
“"RVA23 except V" at this price point and at this point in time is a pretty bad value proposition.”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.