The ARM Cortex-A715 is the second generation ARMv9 "big" Cortex CPU. Compared to its predecessor the Cortex-A710 the Cortex-A715 CPU is noted for having a 20% increase in power efficiency, and 5% improvement in performance. The Cortex-A715 shows comparable performance to the previous generation Cortex-X1 CPU.

This generation of chips starting with the A715 drops native 32-bit support. It forms part of Arm's Total Compute Solutions 2022 (TCS22) along with Arm's Cortex-X3, Cortex-A510, Arm Immortalis-G715 and CoreLink CI-700/NI-700.

Architecture changes in comparison with ARM Cortex-A710

The processor implements the following changes:

  • Decode width: 5 (increased from 4)
  • Removed micro-op (MOP) cache (previously 1.5k entries)

Usage

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?-

See also