Arm’s first Armv9 CPU and GPU designs offer generational leap in performance
Apple M1 hype wave with new CPU and GPU designs
Mobile is being dominated by arm already, but now it’s gearing up for a world where everything from small embedded devices to servers and supercomputers can be built using its scalable architecture. For consumers, Armv9 means we will be seeing faster smartwatches, phones, tablets, laptops, and even desktops built to compete with x86 systems, fueled by Apple’s transition to custom silicon.
Arm has announced its next generation processor architecture — Armv9 — earlier this year marking the first true generational upgrade since 2011’s Armv8. The company hopes this may accelerate the shift faraway from x86 by allowing chip makers to utilize technologies that are at the guts of the world’s fastest supercomputers and deliver better machine learning and digital signal processing capabilities.
For the enterprise infrastructure, In the Neoverse V1 and Neoverse N2 CPU IPs capabilities are encompassed, building on the strong foundation of the Neoverse N1 platform that Ampere and other companies are using to compete with Intel and AMD in the data center.
Though Armv9 is all about high performance computing scenarios, but it does have some serious implications within the consumer space, too.
This is where the new Cortex-X2, Cortex-A710, and Cortex-A510 CPU designs come in. These are the successors of last year’s Cortex-X1, Cortex-A78, and Cortex-A55. All these three add support for SVE2 vector extensions and come with much-needed IPC and efficiency improvements.
Compare to Cortex-A78 Cortex-A710 is 10 percent faster and 30 percent more energy efficient. And when we compare Cortex-A510 with Cortex-A55 the new “little” Cortex-A510 is 35 percent faster, while also delivering three times the performance in machine learning applications
The company also revealed four new Mali GPUs that come with similar improvements over their predecessors. At the high end, there’s the Mali-G710 with a 20 percent performance boost, but the most impressive of the bunch is actually the Mali-G510 that will double the performance you can get in mid-range smartphones and smart TVs.
Armv9 definitely sounds impressive, but these design won’t be released this year. In the coming weeks and months the launch window set and the custom design will be likely announced by the chipmakers in the first half of 2022. There’s a lot of potential for brand spanking new and exciting Chrome OS and Windows 10 on Arm hardware, and everything right down to the lowly smartwatch will likely enjoy the new architecture.
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