Milk-V Megrez (ESWIN EIC7700X)
ESWIN EIC7700X
Hard to buy
Milk-V (chip: ESWIN)
- Specs
- 4× SiFive P550 @1.8GHz (RV64GBCH, ships at 1.4GHz/800mV); 19.95 TOPS@INT8 NPU; IMG AXM-8-256 GPU (OpenGL ES3.2/Vulkan1.2/OpenCL); 8/16/32GB LPDDR5-6400; Mini-ITX 170×170mm; PCIe x8 slot (Gen3 x4), 2× GbE, 4× USB3, SATA/M.2 SATA, 8K H.265 encode/decode
- form factor
- Mini-ITX
- Price
- Launched in 2024 at $199 (16GB) / $269 (32GB, Arace); the site now only offers Contact us with no public retail link
- Preinstalled / official OS
- debian / fedora
- Doc languages
- zh / en
- Checked
- 2026-11-01
Megrez was the first EIC7700X board in volume production (Mini-ITX); the same chip also appears in the SiFive HiFive Premier P550, which is dearer but has better official Ubuntu support.
Distros
Download
Docs and videos
Pitfalls
- The CPU ships at 1.4GHz/800mV; you must raise it to 1.8GHz by hand per the docs or performance falls short of the marketing
- First boot does not grow the partition and root is only 6GB; expand it with gparted or it fills up quickly and reboots into no desktop
- The Fedora image comes from Fedora-V Force (F41), not an official Fedora build; there is no official Ubuntu image
- No public retail channel (the site only offers Contact us), so in 2026 it is genuinely hard to buy
RuyiSDK test reports5
Systems RuyiSDK actually tested on this board. Open a report for install steps and the verdict.
| Distros | Status | Versions | Last tested | Report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| deepin | ● Good | eic7700-riscv64-25 | 2025-05-27 | Open report |
| Fedora | ◌ Needs verification | 42(Workstation) | 2025-08-01 | Open report |
| Guix（not covered here） | ◌ Needs verification | — | 2025-04-10 | Open report |
| OpenCloudOS（not covered here） | ◐ Basic | 23 | 2025-08-24 | Open report |
| RockOS（not covered here） | ● Good | 20250423 | 2025-05-02 | Open report |
Status meanings: good — fully usable (desktop boots); basic — basic system (serial console works); part — partial functionality; cft — image exists, needs verification; cfh — documented as supported but fails to boot; cfi — claimed supported, no image; wip — announced only.
Sources12
- github.com/milkv-megrez/megrez-build/releases/
- images.fedoravforce.org/Megrez
- milkv.io/zh/docs/megrez/overview
- milkv.io/docs/megrez/getting-started/boot
- milkv.io/docs/megrez/development-guide/ENNP-SDK/introduction
- wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/User:Immolo/Sandbox/Milk-V-Megrez
- matrix.ruyisdk.org/reports/Megrez/Deepin/README/
- matrix.ruyisdk.org/reports/Megrez/Fedora/README/
- matrix.ruyisdk.org/reports/Megrez/Guix/README/
- matrix.ruyisdk.org/reports/Megrez/OpenCloudOS/README/
- matrix.ruyisdk.org/reports/Megrez/RockOS/README/
- matrix.ruyisdk.org/
The full source list and how each claim is judged: Sources