We’ve already seen ARM Cortex A75 cores were coming thanks to leak showing Snapdragon 845 SoC will feature custom Cortex A75 cores, but we did not have many details. But since we live in a world where “to leak is glorious”, we already have some slides originally leaked through VideoCardz with the post now deleted, but Liliputing & TheAndroidSoul got some of the slides before deletion, so let’s see what we’ve got here.
ARM Cortex A75
So ARM Cortex-A75 will be about 20% faster than Cortex A73 for single thread operation, itself already 30% faster than Cortex A72. It will also be the first DynamIQ capable processor together with Cortex A55 with both cores potentially used in big.LITTLE configuration.
Cortex A75 performance is only better for peak performance, and remain the same as Cortex-A73 for sustained performance.
The chart above does not start at zero, so it appear as though there are massive performance increases, but looks at the number and we can see 1.34x higher score with GeekBench, and 1.48x with Octane 2.0. Other benchmarks also have higher scores but between 1.16 and 1.33 times higher.
Cortex A75 cores will be manufactured using 10nm process technology, and clocked at up to 3.0 GHz. While (peak) performance will be higher than Cortex A73, efficiency will remain the same.
ARM Cortex A55
ARM Cortex A55 is the successor of Cortex-A53 with about twice the performance, and support for up to eight cores in a single cluster. There are octa-core (and even 24-core) ARM Cortex A53 processor but they also use multiple 4-core clusters.
Power efficiency is 15% better too, and ARM claims it is 10x more configurable probably because of DynamIQ & 8-core cluster support.
If we have a closer look at the benchmarks released by the company, we can see the 2x performance increase is only valid with LMBench memcpy memory benchmark, with other benchmarks from GeekBench v4 to SPECINT2006 showing 1.14x to 1.38x better performance. So Integer performance appears to be only slightly better, floating point gets close to 40%, and the most noticeable improvement is with memory bandwidth.
ARM Mali-G72 GPU
Mali-G72 will offer 1.4x performance improvement over 2017 devices, which must be Mali-G71…, and will allow for machine learning directly on the device instead of having to rely on the cloud, better games, and an improved mobile VR experience.
The new GPU is also 25& more efficient, and supports up to 32 shader cores. GEMM (general matrix multiplication) – used for example in machine learning algorithms – is improved by 17% over Cortex A73.
Based on the information we’ve got from Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 leak, devices based on ARM Cortex A75/A55 processor and Mali-G72 GPU should start selling in Q1 2018. We may learn a few more details on Monday, once the embargo is lifted.
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