The ARM Cortex-A510 is the successor to the ARM Cortex-A55 and the first ARMv9 high efficiency "LITTLE" CPU. It is the companion to the ARM Cortex-A710 "big" core. It is a clean-sheet 64-bit CPU designed by ARM Holdings' Cambridge design team.
Design
The Cortex-A510 is a “LITTLE” CPU core focusing on high efficiency,3 bringing the following improvements from last gen:
- 3-wide in-order design, the Cortex-A55 was 2-wide.4
- 3-wide fetch and decode front-end as well as 3-wide issue and execute on the back-end, which includes 3 ALU's.5
- 35% performance uplift compared to Cortex-A55
- 20% more energy efficient than Cortex-A55
- 3x ML uplift6
ARM announced a refresh for the Cortex-A510 CPU core on 28 June 2022 along with other CPU cores.
The refresh improved power efficiency by 5% and scalability from 8 cores to up to 12 cores.7 Additionally, the refresh could be configured with 32-bit support, whereas the original was 64-bit only.8
Architecture comparison
"LITTLE" coreuArch | Cortex-A53 | Cortex-A55 | Cortex-A510 | Cortex-A520 | Cortex-A530 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Codename | Apollo | Ananke | Klein | Hayes | Nevis |
Peak clock speed | 2.3 GHz | 2.1 GHz | 2.0 GHz | 2.0 GHz | - |
Architecture | ARMv8.0-A | ARMv8.2-A | ARMv9.0-A | ARMv9.2-A | |
AArch | 32-bit and 64-bit | 64-bit | |||
Branch predictor history (entries) | 30729 | - | |||
Max In-flight | None (In-order) | ||||
L0 (Mops entries) | None | ||||
L1-I + L1-D | 8/64+8/64 KiB | 16/64+16/64 KiB | 32/64+32/64 KiB | - | |
L2 | 0–256 KiB | 0–512 KiB | - | ||
L3 | None | 0–4 MiB | 0–16 MiB | 0–32 MiB | - |
Decode Width | 2 | 3 | 3 (2 ALU) | - | |
Dispatch | 810 |
Usage
The Cortex-A510 CPU core is used in the following SoCs
- Qualcomm • Snapdragon 8 gen 111 • Snapdragon 8+ gen 112 • Snapdragon 8 gen 213 • Snapdragon 7 gen 114 • Snapdragon 7+ gen 215
- MediaTek • Dimensity 9200+16 • Dimensity 920017 • Dimensity 9000+18 • Dimensity 900019 • Dimensity 8300 • Dimensity 720020
- Samsung • Exynos 220021
- HiSilicon • Kirin 9000S22
- Google • Tensor G323
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