Arm has unveiled the new processor and graphics cores that will power Samsung's next flagship Exynos chipset. Arm's core architecture is getting a major upgrade for the first time in a decade - the ARMv8 architecture, which has been used by almost everyone for the past decade androidové smartphones, is replaced by the ARMv9 architecture, which brings more powerful and energy-efficient processor cores.
Chips Exynos 2100 a Snapdragon 888 they use the big.LITTLE core configuration, which consists of a super-powerful Cortex-X1 core, three powerful Cortex-A78 cores and four economical Cortex-A55 cores, all of which are now getting an upgrade. The Cortex-X1 replaces the Cortex-X2 core, promising 16% more performance and twice the machine learning performance. The successor of the Cortex-A78 core is the Cortex-A710, which is supposed to be 10% more powerful and 30% more efficient.
For the first time in many years, Arm also introduced a new power-saving core. The Cortex-A510 is said to offer up to 30% better performance and up to 20% better efficiency than the existing Cortex-A55. Since these low-power but highly efficient cores are used by a number of budget smartphones, this upgrade is likely to be the biggest one under the new architecture.
According to Arm, the new cores will be used in a similar configuration as before, so we should see one Cortex-X2 core, three Cortex-A710 cores and four Cortex-A510 cores in the new flagship chips from Qualcomm and Exynos arriving next year.
Arm has also introduced three new graphics chips, the most powerful of which – the Mali-G710 – promises up to 20% higher gaming performance than the Mali-G78, which uses the Exynos 2100 chipset.
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