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ARM Cortex-A720

The ARM Cortex-A720 is a CPU core model from Arm unveiled in 2023. It serves as a successor to the ARM Cortex-A715.

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ARM Cortex-A720
General information
Launched2023
Designed byARM Ltd.
Cache
L1 cache64/128 KiB
(32/64 KiB I-cache with parity,
32/64 KiB D-cache) per core
L2 cache128–512 KiB per core
L3 cache512 KiB – 32 MiB (optional)
Architecture and classification
MicroarchitectureARM Cortex-A720
Instruction setARMv9.2-A
Products, models, variants
Product code name
  • "Hunter"
Variant
History
PredecessorARM Cortex-A715
SuccessorARM Cortex-A725

The ARM Cortex-A720 is a CPU core model from Arm12 unveiled in 2023.3 It serves as a successor to the ARM Cortex-A715.4

Cortex-A700 CPU cores series focus on balanced performance and efficiency, and the CPU core can be paired with other cores in its family such as the high performance ARM Cortex-X4 or/and high efficiency ARM Cortex-A5205 in a CPU cluster. It can be used as either "big" or "LITTLE".6

Architecture changes in comparison with ARM Cortex-A715

  • Update to ARMv9.2
  • 15% peak performance improvement over the Cortex-A715
  • Can down to same size as Cortex-A78 with 10% performance improvement
  • Area optimize configuration for no area cost vs Cortex-A78
  • Down L2 cache hit latency to 9 cycles (from 10 cycles)
  • Down mispredict latency to 11 cycles (from 12 cycles)6
  • x2 L2 bandwidth
  • DSU-120
    • Up to 14 cores (up from 12 cores)
    • Up to 32 MiB of shared L3 cache (increased from 16 MiB)

Architecture comparison

"big" core
μArch Cortex-A77 Cortex-A78 Cortex-A710 Cortex-A715 Cortex-A720 Cortex-A725
Codename Deimos Hercules Matterhorn Makalu Hunter Chaberton
Peak clock speed 2.6 GHz ~3.0 GHz -
Architecture ARMv8.2-A ARMv9.0-A ARMv9.2-A
AArch - 32-bit and 64-bit 64-bit
Max In-flight 160 160 ? 192+7 - -
L0 (Mops entries) - 15368 09 -
L1 (I + D) (KiB) 64 + 64 KiB 32/64 + 32/64 KiB 64 + 64 KiB
L2 Cache (KiB) 256–512 KiB 128–512 KiB 0.25–1 MiB10
L3 Cache (MiB) 0–4 MiB 0–8 MiB 0–16 MiB 0–32 MiB11
Decode width 4-way 5-way
Dispatch 6 Mops/cycle 5 Mops/cycle12 ? -

Usage

See also

See also

References

References

  1. "Cortex-A720". developer.arm.com. Retrieved 2023-09-16.
  2. "TCS23: The complete platform for consumer computing - Arm Community blogs". community.arm.com. 2023-05-29. Retrieved 2023-09-16.
  3. "Arm Total Compute Solution 2023 targets premium smartphones". Embedded.com. 2023-06-02. Retrieved 2024-01-17.
  4. "Arm Introduces A New Big Core, The Cortex-A720". WikiChip Fuse. 2023-05-28. Retrieved 2023-06-06.
  5. "New Arm Cortex-A720 and Cortex-A520 CPUs launched - Arm Community blogs". community.arm.com. 2023-05-29. Retrieved 2023-09-16.
  6. "Arm Unveils 2023 Mobile CPU Core Designs: Cortex-X4, A720, and A520 - the ARMv9.2 Family". www.anandtech.com. Archived from the original on May 29, 2023. Retrieved 2023-06-06.
  7. "Arm Introduces The Cortex-A715". WikiChip Fuse. 2022-06-28. Retrieved 2023-09-16.
  8. "Arm's New Cortex-A78 and Cortex-X1 Microarchitectures: An Efficiency and Performance Divergence". www.anandtech.com. Archived from the original on May 26, 2020. Retrieved 2023-06-06.
  9. "Documentation – Arm Developer". developer.arm.com. Retrieved 2023-06-06.
  10. "Arm launches next gen big core Cortex-A725". WikiChip Fuse. 2024-05-29.
  11. "Arm introduces a new big core Cortex-A720". WikiChip Fuse. 2023-05-28.
  12. "Arm Cortex-X2, A710, and A510 deep dive: New Armv9 CPU designs explained". Android Authority. 2021-05-25. Retrieved 2023-06-06.