The ARM Cortex-A710 is the successor to the ARM Cortex-A78, being the First-Generation Armv9 "big" Cortex CPU. It is the companion to the ARM Cortex-A510 "LITTLE" efficiency core. It was designed by ARM Ltd.'s Austin centre. It is the fourth and last iteration of Arm's Austin core family.

It forms part of Arm's Total Compute Solutions 2021 (TCS21) along with Arm's Cortex-X2, Cortex-A510, Mali-G710 and CoreLink CI-700/NI-700.

Architecture changes in comparison with ARM Cortex-A78

The processor implements the following changes:

  • Rename / Dispatch width: 5 (decreased from 6).
  • 10-cycle pipeline (decreased from 11).
  • One of only two ARMv9 cores to support EL0 AArch32, along with the ARM Cortex-A510.

Improvements:

  • 30% more power efficient than Cortex-A78.
  • 10% uplift in performance compared to Cortex-A78
  • 2x ML uplift

Architecture comparison

"big" core

μArchCortex-A77Cortex-A78Cortex-A710Cortex-A715Cortex-A720Cortex-A725
CodenameDeimosHerculesMatterhornMakaluHunterChaberton
Peak clock speed2.6 GHz~3.0 GHz-
ArchitectureARMv8.2-AARMv9.0-AARMv9.2-A
AArch-32-bit and 64-bit64-bit
Max In-flight160160?192+?-
L0 (Mops entries)-15360-
L1 (I + D) (KiB)64 + 64 KiB32/64 + 32/64 KiB64 + 64 KiB
L2 Cache (KiB)256–512 KiB128–512 KiB0.25–1 MiB
L3 Cache (MiB)0–4 MiB0–8 MiB0–16 MiB0–32 MiB
Decode width4-way5-way
Dispatch6 Mops/cycle5 Mops/cycle?-

Usage

  • Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 1, Snapdragon 7+ Gen 2, Snapdragon 8/8+ Gen 1
  • MediaTek Dimensity 9000/9000+
  • Samsung Exynos 2200

See also