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.

Design

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

  • 3-wide in-order design, the Cortex-A55 was 2-wide.
  • 3-wide fetch and decode front-end as well as 3-wide issue and execute on the back-end, which includes 3 ALU's.

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. Additionally, the refresh could be configured with 32-bit support, whereas the original was 64-bit only.

Architecture comparison

"LITTLE" core

uArchCortex-A53Cortex-A55Cortex-A510Cortex-A520
CodenameApolloAnankeKleinHayes
Peak clock speed2.3 GHz2.1 GHz2.0 GHz2.0 GHz
ArchitectureARMv8.0-AARMv8.2-AARMv9.0-AARMv9.2-A
AArch32-bit and 64-bit64-bit
Branch predictor history (entries)3072-
Max In-flightNone (In-order)
L0 (Mops entries)None
L1-I + L1-D8/64+8/64 KiB16/64+16/64 KiB32/64+32/64 KiB
L20–256 KiB0–512 KiB
L3None0–4 MiB0–16 MiB0–32 MiB
Decode Width233 (2 ALU)
Dispatch8

Usage

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

  • QualcommSnapdragon 8 gen 1 • Snapdragon 8+ gen 1 • Snapdragon 8 gen 2 • Snapdragon 7 gen 1 • Snapdragon 7+ gen 2
  • MediaTek • Dimensity 9200+ • Dimensity 9200 • Dimensity 9000+ • Dimensity 9000 • Dimensity 8300 • Dimensity 7200
  • Samsung • Exynos 2200
  • HiSilicon • Kirin 9000S
  • GoogleTensor G3