ARMwhile preparing its IPO, has taken advantage of the event Computex 2023 to present its novelties, focused above all on computing and mobile telephony. Among them is the platform Total Compute Solutions 2023 (TCS23)which offers a package of the company’s latest in IP designed and optimized so that specific workloads work together, seamlessly, as a complete system.
Its GPUs are based on the fifth generation architecture, and among them are several new ones from ARM: Immortalis-G720, Mali-G720 and Mali-G620. It incorporates a new Armv9.2 cluster of CPUs developed to work with next-generation AI, and enhancements to make software more accessible to ARM developers.
This cluster includes the new Cortex-4, Cortex-A720 and Cortez-A520 CPUs. Also ARM’s DynamiQ DSU-120 shared drive. Total Compute Solutions 2023 is built on the SoC Designer Architecture, and is intended for high-end smartphone models.
ARM Cortex-X4 and Immortalis-G720
Computex 2023 has also been the framework for ARM to launch two new chips focused on improving the performance of smartphones. The first is the ARM Cortex X-4, which according to the company is 15% better in terms of performance than its predecessor, the Cortex X-3. It is focused on improving performance with Artificial Intelligence and machine learning applications.
According to the company, its microarchitecture makes it consume 40% less energy than Cortex-X3 in the same processes, also increasing responsiveness and improving application launch time.
Refering to ARM Immortalis-G720 GPU, was created to support games with high geometry, as well as apps that work with 3D in real time. Its objective is to ensure that the smartphones in which it is integrated offer an experience similar to the game on the console.
In the development of its fifth generation architecture, part of the graphics pipeline has been redefined to reduce memory bandwidth, making your work with graphics easier. In addition, it has the new graphics function Deferred Vertex Shading (DVS), which also reconfigures the data flow.
The ARM Immortalis-G720 improves the performance and efficiency of the previous generation of ARM GPUs by 15%, as well as a 40% improvement in system-level efficiency, leading to higher-quality graphics.
It offers support for 10 cores or more, as well as the option to use optimized physical IP to speed up SoC designs. Regarding the new GPUs Mali-G710 and Mali-G620, also with fifth-generation architecture, are designed for mobile consumer devices, such as smartphones, laptops, wearables and set-top box computers. The former can support between 6 and 9 cores, while the latter supports a maximum of 5 cores.
