New Cortex-X2, Cortex-A710, Cortex-A510 CPUs, and Mali GPUs Unveiled by Arm

The UK based semiconductor company, Arm has unveiled the new v9 Cortex CPU and high-end Cortex-X2 CPU which can be used in both smartphones and laptops. To cover the lower-end market the company has also showcased Cortex-A710 and Cortex-A510 that could power smart TVs and smart home appliances. Furthermore, Arm has also taken wraps off the new set of Mali GPUs which are Mali-G710, Mali-G610, Mali-G510, and Mali-G310.

Arm Cortex-X2

Starting with the Armv9 CPU architecture, it aims to deliver better performance, machine learning, digital signal processing and security. The new Cortex-X2 that belongs to the Arm v9 CPU family is promised to deliver a 16% performance boost, twice the machine learning speed and 30% more single-threaded performance compared to current Android flagships. The Cortex-X2 employs DynamIQ Shared Unit-110 (DSU-110) for better performance and supports up to 16MB of L3 cache.

Arm Cortex-A710

The Arm Cortex-A710 aims to power a wide variety of future smart TVs, laptops, smartphones and other smart devices. It promises a 10% performance boost, 30% more energy efficiency and 2x better machine learning capabilities. It is the first Armv9 “big” core meant for chipsets based on big.LITTLE architecture.

Arm Cortex-A510

For lower-end devices Arm has designed Cortex-A510 that will line up as the “LITTLE” core in upcoming chipsets. It promises 35% better performance, 20% more energy efficiency, and 3x faster machine learning processing over the predecessor – Cortex-A55. Both Cortex-A710 and Cortex-A510 come with a DSU-110 CPU cluster to facilitate smooth AAA title gaming. The Armv9 family also offers Secure-EL2 to boost security. In addition, they also offer Memory Tagging Extension (MTE to counter-memory safety vulnerabilities.

Arm Mali-G710 GPU

Shifting focus to the Mali-G710 GPU it promises a 20% boost in performance and power efficiency and 35% boost in machine learning over its predecessor Mali-G78. The new command stream frontend (CSF) better supports new APIs such as Vulkan among others. It can be configured as 7-cores or up to 16-cores. Even though this number is significantly less than those in Mali-G78 the company promises better performance and efficiency thanks to the size of the cores. Along with this Arm has also announced Mali-G610 which will power lower-priced smartphones belonging to the sub-premium category.

Arm Mali-G510 and Mali-G310 GPU

We also have Mali-G510 GPU with 22% better energy efficiency and Mali-G57 and twice the machine learning ability. It will power mid-range smartphones, premium DTVs, set-top boxes (STBs), and Chromebooks. The Mali-G310 belongs to the lower-end and offers 6x better-texturing performance, 4.5x times better Vulkan performance and 2x speed in Android UI content rendering over the Mali-G31.

Even though Arm has announced the new lineup of Cores and GPUs we would only see these powering the devices by 2023. These will also push 32-bit architecture into oblivion and make 64-bit the standard.