AMD Versal AI Core VCK190 (VC1902) vs Rockchip RK3588 (NPU, single core of 3)

FPGA / Versal coverage note: 1,243 rows come from the AMD Vitis AI 3.0/3.5 Model Zoo tables; 733 (59%) are image classification. Detection, segmentation and other workloads are thinner, and there is no LLM or speech data for these boards. All are vendor-published (grade D). FPGA / Versal overview.

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Close-up of a Rockchip RK3588 system-on-chip package on a circuit board — Rockchip RK3588 SoC package. Photo: Popolon (Commons uploader; CC0, attribution not required), CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.

No like-for-like comparison yet: both have published results, but model size or batch differ. Treat the numbers below as indicative only.

	AMD Versal AI Core VCK190 (VC1902)	Rockchip RK3588 (NPU, single core of 3)
Best object detection	3507 FPS D Older data (2023)	109 FPS C 2026-10-13 (page last edited)
Power	n/a	n/a
Perf / W	n/a	n/a
Price	n/a	n/a
Workloads with data	4 of 7	5 of 7

Best published object detection result per platform. n/a = not published; never estimated.

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object detection

⚠ MIXED COMPARISON — not like-for-like. Baseline small (YOLO-s) at batch 1. Differs: model-size class unknown vs small (YOLO-s); batch unknown vs 1.

Platform	Result	Model · precision · stack	Grade	Power	Source
Rockchip RK3588 (NPU, single core of 3)	66.50 FPS throughput · b=1	yolov5s_relu INT8 · RKNN-Toolkit2 / RKNPU (rknn_model_zoo) · small (YOLO-s)	C	unknown power n/a no power published	Rockchip rknn_model_zoo README benchmark table 2026-10-13 (page last edited)
AMD Versal AI Core VCK190 (VC1902) MIXED: model-size class unknown vs small (YOLO-s); batch unknown vs 1	3507 FPS E2E throughput, multi thread · b=unknown	pt_pmg_grocerystore_224_224_2.28G INT8 · Vitis AI 3.0 (VART) · unknown	D	unknown power n/a no power published	Vitis AI 3.0 Model Zoo performance table Older data (2023)

No shared like-for-like group exists for this pair.

instance segmentation

Only Rockchip RK3588 (NPU, single core of 3) has published instance segmentation results.

Platform	Result	Model · precision · stack	Grade	Power	Source
Rockchip RK3588 (NPU, single core of 3)	71.50 FPS throughput · b=1	yolov5n-seg INT8 · RKNN-Toolkit2 / RKNPU (rknn_model_zoo) · nano (YOLO-n)	C	unknown power n/a no power published	Rockchip rknn_model_zoo README benchmark table 2026-10-13 (page last edited)

AMD Versal AI Core VCK190 (VC1902):

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No published instance segmentation results for AMD Versal AI Core VCK190 (VC1902) or Rockchip RK3588 (NPU, single core of 3) yet.
We only show cited public figures — nothing is estimated to fill gaps. Requests tell us what to source or test next.

pose estimation

⚠ MIXED COMPARISON — not like-for-like. Baseline nano (YOLO-n) at batch 1. Differs: model-size class mobile-class CNN vs nano (YOLO-n); batch unknown vs 1.

Platform	Result	Model · precision · stack	Grade	Power	Source
Rockchip RK3588 (NPU, single core of 3)	58.30 FPS throughput · b=1	yolov8n-pose INT8 · RKNN-Toolkit2 / RKNPU (rknn_model_zoo) · nano (YOLO-n)	C	unknown power n/a no power published	Rockchip rknn_model_zoo README benchmark table 2026-10-13 (page last edited)
AMD Versal AI Core VCK190 (VC1902) MIXED: model-size class mobile-class CNN vs nano (YOLO-n); batch unknown vs 1	437 FPS E2E throughput, multi thread · b=unknown	pt_movenet_coco_192_192_0.5G INT8 · Vitis AI 3.0 (VART) · mobile-class CNN	D	unknown power n/a no power published	Vitis AI 3.0 Model Zoo performance table Older data (2023)

No shared like-for-like group exists for this pair.

image classification

⚠ MIXED COMPARISON — not like-for-like. Baseline mobile-class CNN at batch 1. Differs: batch unknown vs 1.

Platform	Result	Model · precision · stack	Grade	Power	Source
Rockchip RK3588 (NPU, single core of 3)	459 FPS throughput · b=1	mobilenetv2-12 INT8 · RKNN-Toolkit2 / RKNPU (rknn_model_zoo) · mobile-class CNN	C	unknown power n/a no power published	Rockchip rknn_model_zoo README benchmark table 2026-10-13 (page last edited)
AMD Versal AI Core VCK190 (VC1902) MIXED: batch unknown vs 1	10225 FPS E2E throughput, multi thread · b=unknown	tf_mobilenetv1_0.25_imagenet_128_128_27M INT8 · Vitis AI 3.0 (VART) · mobile-class CNN	D	unknown power n/a no power published	Vitis AI 3.0 Model Zoo performance table Older data (2023)

No shared like-for-like group exists for this pair.

semantic segmentation

⚠ MIXED COMPARISON — not like-for-like. Baseline mobile-class CNN at batch 1. Differs: model-size class mid-size CNN vs mobile-class CNN; batch unknown vs 1.

Platform	Result	Model · precision · stack	Grade	Power	Source
Rockchip RK3588 (NPU, single core of 3)	34.70 FPS throughput · b=1	deeplab-v3-plus-mobilenet-v2 INT8 · RKNN-Toolkit2 / RKNPU (rknn_model_zoo) · mobile-class CNN	C	unknown power n/a no power published	Rockchip rknn_model_zoo README benchmark table 2026-10-13 (page last edited)
AMD Versal AI Core VCK190 (VC1902) MIXED: model-size class mid-size CNN vs mobile-class CNN; batch unknown vs 1	2938 FPS E2E throughput, multi thread · b=unknown	tf2_2d-unet_nuclei_128_128_5.31G INT8 · Vitis AI 3.0 (VART) · mid-size CNN	D	unknown power n/a no power published	Vitis AI 3.0 Model Zoo performance table Older data (2023)

No shared like-for-like group exists for this pair.

speech-to-text

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No published speech-to-text results for AMD Versal AI Core VCK190 (VC1902) or Rockchip RK3588 (NPU, single core of 3) yet.
We only show cited public figures — nothing is estimated to fill gaps. Requests tell us what to source or test next.

LLM generation

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No published LLM generation results for AMD Versal AI Core VCK190 (VC1902) or Rockchip RK3588 (NPU, single core of 3) yet.
We only show cited public figures — nothing is estimated to fill gaps. Requests tell us what to source or test next.

How to read these numbers

Every number is labelled. Confidence: A MLPerf closed, audited · B documented third-party method · C community / review · D vendor-published, not independently verified · E estimate. Power basis: measured with the result · spec vendor spec/envelope · power n/a not published.

Machine-readable: /find.json (see llms.txt); full tables are in “Show data”. Confidence grades: A audited MLPerf closed · B documented third-party · C community · D vendor-published · E estimate. Unknown values are shown as unknown, never estimated. Generated 2026-10-16 from public sources.