ARM Cortex-A510 explained

ARM Cortex-A510
Microarch:	ARM Cortex-A510
Arch:	ARMv9-A
Pcode1:	Klein
Produced-Start:	2021
Designfirm:	ARM Ltd.
Predecessor:	ARM Cortex-A55
Successor:	ARM Cortex-A520

The ARM Cortex-A510 is the successor to the ARM Cortex-A55 and the first ARMv9 high efficiency "LITTLE" CPU. It is the companion to the ARM Cortex-A710 "big" core. It is a clean-sheet 64-bit CPU designed by ARM Holdings' Cambridge design team.^[1]

Design

The Cortex-A510 is a “LITTLE” CPU core focusing on high efficiency,^[2] bringing the following improvements from last gen:

• 3-wide in-order design, the Cortex-A55 was 2-wide.^[3]
• 3-wide fetch and decode front-end as well as 3-wide issue and execute on the back-end,^[4] which includes 3 ALU's.^[5]
• 35% performance uplift compared to Cortex-A55
• 20% more energy efficient than Cortex-A55
• 3x ML uplift^[6]

ARM announced a refresh for the Cortex-A510 CPU core on 28 June 2022 along with other CPU cores. The refresh improved power efficiency by 5% and scalability from 8 cores to up to 12 cores.^[7] Additionally, the refresh could be configured with 32-bit support, whereas the original was 64-bit only. ^[8]

Usage

The Cortex-A510 CPU core is used in the following SoCs

• Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 gen 1^[9] Snapdragon 8+ gen 1^[10] Snapdragon 8 gen 2^[11] Snapdragon 7 gen 1^[12] Snapdragon 7+ gen 2^[13]
• MediaTek Dimensity 9200+^[14] Dimensity 9200^[15] Dimensity 9000+^[16] Dimensity 9000^[17] Dimensity 7200^[18] Dimensity 8300
• Samsung Exynos 2200^[19]
• HiSilicon Kirin 9000S^[20]
• Google Tensor G3^[21]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Frumusanu. Andrei. Arm Announces Mobile Armv9 CPU Microarchitectures: Cortex-X2, Cortex-A710 & Cortex-A510. 2021-08-24. www.anandtech.com.
2. Web site: Ltd . Arm . Cortex-A510 . 2023-06-17 . Arm The Architecture for the Digital World . en.
3. Web site: Cortex-A510 - Microarchitectures - ARM - WikiChip. 2021-08-24. en.wikichip.org. en.
4. Web site: Cortex-A510 - Microarchitectures - ARM - WikiChip. 2021-08-24. en.wikichip.org. en.
5. Web site: Frumusanu. Andrei. Arm Announces Mobile Armv9 CPU Microarchitectures: Cortex-X2, Cortex-A710 & Cortex-A510. 2021-08-24. www.anandtech.com.
6. Web site: First Armv9 Cortex CPUs for Consumer Compute. 2021-08-12. community.arm.com. 25 May 2021 . en.
7. Web site: Next-gen Armv9 CPUs unleash compute performance - Announcements - Arm Community blogs - Arm Community . 28 June 2022 .
8. Web site: Cortex-A510 refreshed - Android Authority . 18 April 2023 .
9. Web site: Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1: specs and benchmarks . 2023-04-22 . NanoReview.net . en.
10. Web site: Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1: specs and benchmarks . 2023-04-22 . NanoReview.net . en.
11. Web site: Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2: specs and benchmarks . 2023-04-22 . NanoReview.net . en.
12. Web site: Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 1: specs and benchmarks . 2023-04-22 . NanoReview.net . en.
13. Web site: Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 2: specs and benchmarks . 2023-04-22 . NanoReview.net . en.
14. Web site: MediaTek Dimensity 9200 Plus: specs and benchmarks . 2023-06-10 . NanoReview.net . en.
15. Web site: MediaTek Dimensity 9200: specs and benchmarks . 2023-04-22 . NanoReview.net . en.
16. Web site: MediaTek Dimensity 9000 Plus: specs and benchmarks . 2023-04-22 . NanoReview.net . en.
17. Web site: MediaTek Dimensity 9000: specs and benchmarks . 2023-04-22 . NanoReview.net . en.
18. Web site: MediaTek Dimensity 7200: specs and benchmarks . 2023-04-22 . NanoReview.net . en.
19. Web site: Samsung Exynos 2200: specs and benchmarks . 2023-04-22 . NanoReview.net . en.
20. Web site: HiSilicon Kirin 9000S: specs and benchmarks . 2024-04-03 . NanoReview.net . en.
21. Web site: 2024-05-26 . Google Tensor G3: Everything you need to know about the Pixel 8 processor . 2024-06-04 . Android Authority . en.