Comparison of ARMv8-A cores
This is a table of 64/32-bit ARMv8-A architecture cores comparing microarchitectures which implement the AArch64 instruction set and mandatory or optional extensions of it. Most chips support 32-bit AArch32 for legacy applications. All chips of this type have a floating-point unit (FPU) that is better than the one in older ARMv7 and NEON (SIMD) chips. Some of these chips have coprocessors also include cores from the older 32-bit architecture (ARMv7). Some of the chips are SoCs and can combine both ARM Cortex-A53 and ARM Cortex-A57, such as the Samsung Exynos 7 Octa.
Table
Company | Core | Released | Revision | Decode | Pipeline depth |
Out-of-order execution |
Branch prediction |
big.LITTLE role | Exec. ports |
SIMD | Fab (in nm) |
Simult. MT | L0 cache | L1 cache Instr + Data (in KiB) |
L2 cache | L3 cache | Core configu- rations |
DMIPS/ MHz |
ARM part number (in the main ID register) | |
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Have it | Entries | |||||||||||||||||||
ARM Holdings | Cortex-A32 (32-bit)[1] | 2017 | ARMv8.0-A (only 32-bit) | 2-wide | 8 | No | 0 | LITTLE | ? | 28[2] | No | No | 8–64 + 8–64 | 0–1 MiB | No | 1-4+ | 0xD01 | |||
Cortex-A34 (64-bit)[3] | 2019 | ARMv8.0-A (only 64-bit) | 2-wide | 8 | No | 0 | LITTLE | ? | No | No | 8–64 + 8–64 | 0–1 MiB | No | 1-4+ | 0xD02 | |||||
Cortex-A35[4] | 2017 | ARMv8.0-A | 2-wide[5] | 8 | No | 0 | Yes | LITTLE | ? | 28 / 16 / 14 / 10 |
No | No | 8–64 + 8–64 | 0 / 128 KiB–1 MiB | No | 1–4+ | 1.78 | 0xD04 | ||
Cortex-A53[6] | 2014 | ARMv8.0-A | 2-wide | 8 | No | 0 | Conditional+ Indirect branch prediction | big/LITTLE | 2 | 28 / 20 / 16 / 14 / 10 |
No | No | 8–64 + 8–64 | 128 KiB–2 MiB | No | 1–4+ | 2.24 | 0xD03 | ||
Cortex-A55[7] | 2017 | ARMv8.2-A | 2-wide | 8 | No | 0 | big/LITTLE | 2 | 28 / 20 / 16 / 14 / 12 / 10 / 5[8] |
No | No | 16–64 + 16–64 | 0–256 KiB/core | 0–4 MiB | 1–8+ | 2.65[9] | 0xD05 | |||
Cortex-A57[10] | 2013 | ARMv8.0-A | 3-wide | 15 | Yes 3-wide dispatch |
Two-level | big | 8 | 28 / 20 / 16[11] / 14 |
No | No | 48 + 32 | 0.5–2 MiB | No | 1–4+ | 4.6 | 0xD07 | |||
Cortex-A65[12] | 2019 | ARMv8.2-A | ? | ? | Yes | Two-level | ? | 2 | ? | No | No | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | 0xD06 | |||
Cortex-A65AE[13] | 2019 | ARMv8.2-A | ? | ? | Yes | Two-level | ? | 2 | ? | SMT2 | No | 16-64 + 16-64 | 64-256 KiB | 0-4 MB | 1–8 | ? | 0xD43 | |||
Cortex-A72[14] | 2015 | ARMv8.0-A | 3-wide | 15 | Yes 5-wide dispatch |
Two-level | big | 8 | 28 / 16 | No | No | 48 + 32 | 0.5–4 MiB | No | 1–4+ | 4.72 | 0xD08 | |||
Cortex-A73[15] | 2016 | ARMv8.0-A | 2-wide | 11–12 | Yes 4-wide dispatch |
Two-level | big | 7 | 28 / 16 / 10 | No | No | 64 + 32/64 | 1–8 MiB | No | 1–4+ | ~6.35 | 0xD09 | |||
Cortex-A75[7] | 2017 | ARMv8.2-A | 3-wide | 11–13 | Yes 6-wide dispatch |
Two-level | big | 8? | 28 / 16 / 10 | No | No | 64 + 64 | 256–512 KiB/core | 0–4 MiB | 1–8+ | 8.2-9.5[16] | 0xD0A | |||
Cortex-A76[17] | 2018 | ARMv8.2-A | 4-wide | 11–13 | Yes 8-wide dispatch |
128 | Two-level | big | 8 | 10 / 7 | No | No | 64 + 64 | 256–512 KiB/core | 1–4 MiB | 1–4 | 10.7-12.4[18] | 0xD0B | ||
Cortex-A76AE[19] | 2018 | ARMv8.2-A | ? | ? | Yes | 128 | Two-level | big | ? | ? | SMT2 | No | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | 0xD0E | ||
Cortex-A77[20] | 2019 | ARMv8.2-A | 4-wide | 11–13 | Yes 10-wide dispatch |
160 | Two-level | big | 12 | 2*128b | 7 | No | 1.5K entries | 64 + 64 | 256–512 KiB/core | 1–4 MiB | 1-4 | ? | 0xD0D | |
Cortex-A78[21][22] | 2020 | ARMv8.2-A | 4-wide | Yes | 160 | Yes | big | 13 | 2*128b | No | 1.5K entries | 32/64 + 32/64 | 256–512 KiB/core | 1–4 MiB | 1-4 | ? | 0xD41 | |||
Cortex-X1[23] | 2020 | ARMv8.2-A | 5-wide[23] | ? | Yes | 224 | Yes | big | 15 | 4*128b | No | 3K entries | 64 + 64 | up to 1 MiB[23] | up to 8 MiB[23] | custom[23] | ? | 0xD44 | ||
Apple Inc. | Cyclone[24] | 2013 | ARMv8.0-A | 6-wide[25] | 16[25] | Yes[25] | 192 | Yes | No | 9[25] | 28[26] | No | No | 64 + 64[25] | 1 MiB[25] | 4 MiB[25] | 2[27] | ? | ||
Typhoon | 2014 | ARMv8.0‑A | 6-wide[28] | 16[28] | Yes[28] | Yes | No | 9 | 20 | No | No | 64 + 64[25] | 1 MiB[28] | 4 MiB[25] | 2, 3 (A8X) | ? | ||||
Twister | 2015 | ARMv8.0‑A | 6-wide[28] | 16[28] | Yes[28] | Yes | No | 9 | 16 / 14 | No | No | 64 + 64[28] | 3 MiB[28] | 4 MiB[28] No (A9X) | 2 | ? | ||||
Hurricane | 2016 | ARMv8.1‑A | 6-wide[29] | 16 | Yes | "big" (In A10/A10X paired with "LITTLE" Zephyr cores) |
9 | 16 (A10) 10 (A10X) |
No | No | 64 + 64[30] | 3 MiB[30] (A10) 8 MiB (A10X) |
4 MiB[30] (A10) No (A10X) |
2x Hurricane + 2x Zephyr (A10) 3x Hurricane + 3x Zephyr (A10X) |
? | |||||
Zephyr | 2016 | ARMv8.1‑A | 3-wide | 12 | Yes | LITTLE | 5 | 16 (A10) 10 (A10X) |
No | No | 32 + 32[31] | 1 MiB | 4 MiB[30] (A10) No (A10X) |
2x Hurricane + 2x Zephyr (A10) 3x Hurricane + 3x Zephyr (A10X) |
? | |||||
Monsoon | 2017 | ARMv8.2‑A[32] | 7-wide | 16 | Yes | "big" (In Apple A11 paired with "LITTLE" Mistral cores) |
13 | 10 | No | No | 64 + 64[31] | 8 MiB | No | 2x Monsoon + 4× Mistral | ? | |||||
Mistral | 2017 | ARMv8.2‑A[32] | 3-wide | 12 | Yes | LITTLE | 5 | 10 | No | No | 32 + 32[31] | 1 MiB | No | 2x Monsoon + 4× Mistral | ? | |||||
Vortex | 2018 | ARMv8.3‑A[33] | 7-wide | 16 | Yes | "big" (In Apple A12/Apple A12X/Apple A12Z paired with "LITTLE" Tempest cores) |
13 | 7 | No | No | 128 + 128[31] | 8 MiB | No | 2x Vortex + 4x Tempest (A12) 4x Vortex + 4x Tempest (A12X/A12Z) |
? | |||||
Tempest | 2018 | ARMv8.3‑A[33] | 3-wide | 12 | Yes | LITTLE | 5 | 7 | No | No | 32 + 32[31] | 2 MiB | No | 2x Vortex + 4x Tempest (A12) 4x Vortex + 4x Tempest (A12X/A12Z) | ? | |||||
Lightning | 2019 | ARMv8.4‑A [34] | 8-wide | 16 | Yes | 560 | "big" (In Apple A13 paired with "LITTLE" Thunder cores) |
13 | 7 | No | No | 128 + 128[35] | 8 MiB | No | 2x Lightning + 4x Thunder | ? | ||||
Thunder | 2019 | ARMv8.4‑A [36] | 3-wide | 12 | Yes | LITTLE | 5 | 7 | No | No | 96 + 48[37] | 4 MiB | No | 2x Lightning + 4x Thunder | ? | |||||
Firestorm | 2020 | ARMv8.4‑A | 8-wide[38] | 630[39] | 5 | No | 2x Firestorm + 4x Icestorm | ? | ||||||||||||
Icestorm | 2020 | ARMv8.4‑A | 5 | No | 2x Firestorm + 4x Icestorm | ? | ||||||||||||||
Nvidia | Denver[40][41] | 2014 | ARMv8‑A | 2-wide hardware decoder, up to 7-wide variable- length VLIW micro-ops |
13 | Not if the hardware decoder is in use. Can be provided by dynamic software translation into VLIW. |
Direct+ Indirect branch prediction |
No | 7 | 28 | No | No | 128 + 64 | 2 MiB | No | 2 | ? | |||
Denver 2[42] | 2016 | ARMv8‑A | ? | 13 | Not if the hardware decoder is in use. Can be provided by dynamic software translation into VLIW. |
Direct+ Indirect branch prediction |
"Super" Nvidia's own implementation | ? | 16 | No | No | 128 + 64 | 2 MiB | No | 2 | ? | ||||
Carmel | 2018 | ARMv8.2‑A | ? | Direct+ Indirect branch prediction |
? | 12 | No | No | 128 + 64 | 2 MiB | (4 MiB @ 8 cores) | 2 (+ 8) | ? | |||||||
Cavium | ThunderX[43][44] | 2014 | ARMv8-A | 2-wide | 9[44] | Yes[43] | Two-level | ? | 28 | No | No | 78 + 32[45][46] | 16 MiB[45][46] | No | 8–16, 24–48 | ? | ||||
ThunderX2 [47](ex. Broadcom Vulcan[48]) |
2018[49] | ARMv8.1-A [50] | 4-wide "4 μops"[51][52] | ? | Yes[53] | Multi-level | ? | ? | 16[54] | SMT4 | No | 32 + 32 (data 8-way) | 256 KiB per core[55] | 1 MiB per core[55] | 16-32[55] | ? | ||||
Marvell | ThunderX3 | 2020[56] | ARMv8.3+[56] | 8-wide | ? | Yes 4-wide dispatch |
Multi-level | ? | 7 | 7[56] | SMT4[56] | ? | 64 + 32 | 512 KiB per core | 90 MiB | 60 | ? | |||
Applied | Helix | 2014 | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | 40 / 28 | No | No | 32 + 32 (per core; write-through w/parity)[57] | 256 KiB shared per core pair (with ECC) | 1 MiB/core | 2, 4, 8 | ? | |||
X-Gene | 2013 | ? | 4-wide | 15 | Yes | ? | ? | ? | 40[58] | No | No | 8 MiB | 8 | 4.2 | ||||||
X-Gene 2 | 2015 | ? | 4-wide | 15 | Yes | ? | ? | ? | 28[59] | No | No | 8 MiB | 8 | 4.2 | ||||||
X-Gene 3[59] | 2017 | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | 16 | No | No | ? | ? | 32 MiB | 32 | ? | ||||
Qualcomm | Kryo | 2016 | ARMv8-A | ? | ? | Yes | Two-level? | "big" or "LITTLE" Qualcomm's own similar implementation | ? | 14[60] | No | No | 32+24[61] | 0.5–1 MiB | 2, 4 | 6.3 | ||||
Kryo 2XX | 2017 | ARMv8-A | 2-wide | 11–12 | Yes 7-wide dispatch |
Two-level | big | 7 | 14 / 11 / 10 [62] | No | No | 64 + 32/64? | 512 KiB/Gold Core | No | 4 | ? | ||||
2-wide | 8 | No | 0 | Conditional+ Indirect branch prediction |
? | 2 | 8–64? + 8–64? | 256 KiB/Silver Core | 4 | ? | ||||||||||
Kryo 3XX | 2018 | ARMv8.2-A | 3-wide | 11–13 | Yes 8-wide dispatch |
Two-level | big | 8 | 10[62] | No | No | 64+64[62] | 256 KiB/Gold Core | 2 MiB | 4 | ? | ||||
2-wide | 8 | No | 0 | Conditional+ Indirect branch prediction |
? | 28 | 16–64? + 16–64? | 128 KiB/Silver | 4 | ? | ||||||||||
Kryo 4XX | 2018
2019 |
ARMv8.2-A | 4-wide | 11–13 | Yes 8-wide dispatch |
Yes | big | 8 | 11 / 8 / 7 | No | No | 64 + 64 | 512 KiB/Gold Prime
256 KiB/Gold |
2 MiB | 1+3 | ? | ||||
2-wide | 8 | No | 0 | Conditional+ Indirect branch prediction |
? | 2 | 16–64? + 16–64? | 128 KiB/Silver | 4 | ? | ||||||||||
Kryo 5XX | 2019 | ARMv8.2-A | 4-wide | 11–13 | Yes 8-wide dispatch |
Yes | big | 8 | No | ? | 512 KiB/Gold Prime
256 KiB/Gold |
3 MiB | 1+3 | |||||||
2-wide | 8 | No | 0 | Conditional+ Indirect branch prediction |
2 | ? | 128 KiB/Silver | 4 MiB | ||||||||||||
Kryo 6XX | 2020 | ARMv8.4-A | Yes | big | ? | 64 + 64 | 1024 KiB/Gold Prime
512 KiB/Gold |
4 MiB | 1+3+4 | |||||||||||
Falkor[63][64] | 2017[65] | "ARMv8.1-A features";[64] AArch64 only (not 32-bit)[64] | 4-wide | 10–15 | Yes 8-wide dispatch |
Yes | ? | 8 | 10 | No | 24 KiB | 88[64] + 32 | 500KiB | 1.25MiB | 40-48 | ? | ||||
Samsung | M1[66][67] | 2015 | ARMv8-A | 4-wide | 13[68] | Yes 9-wide dispatch[69] |
96 | big | 8 | 14 | No | No | 64 + 32 | 2 MiB[70] | no | 4 | ? | |||
M2[66][67] | 2019 | ARMv8-A | 100 | Two-level | big | 10 | 64 + 64 | |||||||||||||
M3[68][71] | 2018 | ARMv8.2-A | 6-wide | 15 | Yes 12-wide dispatch |
228 | Two-level | big | 12 | 10 | No | No | 64 + 64 | 512 KiB per core | 4096KB | 4 | ? | |||
M4[72] | 2019 | ARMv8.2-A | 6-wide | 15 | Yes 12-wide dispatch |
228 | Two-level | big | 12 | 8 / 7 | No | No | 64 + 64 | 512 KiB per core | 4096KB | 2 | ? | |||
M5[73] | 2020 | Yes 12-wide dispatch |
228 | Two-level | big | No | 64 + 64 | |||||||||||||
Fujitsu | A64FX[74][75] | 2019 | ARMv8.2-A | 4/2-wide | 7+ | Yes 5-way? |
Yes | n/a | 8+ | 512b[76] | 7 | No | No | 64 + 64 | 8MiB per 12+1 cores | No | 48+4 | 1.9GHz+; 15GF/W+. | ||
HiSilicon | TaiShan V110[77] | 2019 | ARMv8.2-A | 4-wide | ? | Yes | n/a | 8 | 7 | No | No | 64 + 64 | 512 KiB per core | 1 MiB per core | ? | ? | ||||
Company | Core | Released | Revision | Decode | Pipeline depth |
Out-of-order execution |
Branch prediction |
big.LITTLE role | Exec. ports |
SIMD | Fab (in nm) |
Simult. MT | L0 cache | L1 cache Instr + Data (in KiB) |
L2 cache | L3 cache | Core configu- rations |
DMIPS/ MHz |
ARM part number (in the main ID register) | |
As Dhrystone (implied in "DMIPS") is a synthetic benchmark developed in 1980s, it is no longer representative of prevailing workloads – use with caution.
See also
- Comparison of ARMv7-A cores
- List of ARM cores
- Multi-core processor
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