In short: Arm’s new high-performance Cortex-X3 core can offer 25 percent more performance compared to its predecessor when used in a phone and get 34 percent higher than a Core i7 mobile of the current generation at single-wire benchmarks. Meanwhile, the Cortex-A715 focuses more on efficiency improvements, with the Cortex-A510 only receiving a minor overhaul.
At Arm’s Client Tech Day 2022, the company unveiled its line of next-generation processor cores that implement the ARMv9-A architecture. Semiconductor companies like Qualcomm, Samsung and MediaTek will use these designs in their upcoming SoCs for smartphones, tablets, laptops and more.
The Cortex-X3 is Arm’s new high-performance CPU core design, which provides an 11 percent increase in IPC performance compared to last year’s Cortex-X2. The company also claims that the X3 with a speed of 3.3 GHz and along with 8 MB of L3 cache can provide a maximum performance 25 percent higher than its predecessor. Increasing the clock speed to 3.6 GHz and doubling the cache supposedly allows it to do 34 percent better than an Intel Core i7-1260P in single-wire testing.
Switching to Arm’s new performance CPU core, the Cortex-A715 consumes 20 percent less power while delivering the same performance as the A710 and increases performance by five percent with the same power consumption. energy. The company obtained these metrics using an identical process node for the two CPU designs.
Meanwhile, the “small” core of Arm’s Cortex-A510 CPU received a minor upgrade, which kept the same name confusingly. The 2022 version features five percent efficiency improvements using the same node. Interestingly, the new A510 is the only core in the current line that is still compatible with AArch32, which means that 32-bit applications will only run with these efficiency cores.
Arm also announced its new GPU designs at the same event, including the Immortalis-G715, which includes support for hardware ray tracking.