Arm introduces ‘laptop-class’ Cortex-A76 CPU alongside the Mali-G76 GPU
“The company has introduced a brand new microarchitecture design on the Cortex-A76 to offer better performance”
Arm is one of the most crucial names in the smartphone industry, as the brand’s Cortex processors as well as Mali GPUs, power a majority of the handsets in the Android landscape. The company has now unveiled its top-end Cortex-A76 CPU along with Mali-G76 GPU that aim to bring laptop-class performance to portable devices. Alongside, the company has launched Mali-V76 VPU, which brings along the support for 8K UHD resolution.
Talking about the Cortex-A76 first, the new CPU comes as a successor to the last year’s Cortex-A75. As per the company’s claims, it offers up to 35 percent boost in performance and 40 percent improvement in power efficiency over its predecessor. In order to achieve this level of improvement, the company has introduced a brand new microarchitecture design, made from ground up, on the Cortex-A76. The new processing unit is based on Arm’s DynamIQ technology, which was announced last year and aims to deliver powerful performance while maintaining power efficiency.
Interestingly, for laptops, the new CPU has been promised to deliver an even larger performance improvement. If the company’s claims are to be believed, AMD and Intel will now have a serious competitor, especially for the Windows 10-based laptops that aim to deliver longer battery life.
With other improvements and support for INT8 operations, the Cortex-A76 will be able to deliver 4X inference performance, as pointed out by Tom’s Hardware. This essentially means that the machine learning models will be able to run around four times faster on the new processor unit in comparison to earlier models. That said, the company’s Machine Learning Processor (MLP) still offers a much better inference performance and should remain the top choice for those who are interested in machine learning capabilities of the device.
Coming to the Mali-G76, the new GPU is a follow up to the Mali-G72 and has been claimed to offer a 30 percent boost in terms of performance. The new graphics chip comes with three execution engines for each shader core, configurable 2-4 slices of L2 cache, dual texture mapper, and support for up to 20 “cores” in devices, as pointed out in a report by Tom’s Hardware. Finally, the Mali-V76 VPU doubles the decode performance over its predecessor to allow for decoding 8K videos at 60 fps.
“With these intelligent improvements in the underlying architecture, as well as the ever advancing ability to integrate products seamlessly across the Cortex and Mali product families, Cortex-A76 represent a significant step forward for mobile computing, whether you choose the smartphone or laptop as your device of choice,” the company said on its community page.
The new introductions from the company can be expected to make their way to devices by the end of this year or early next year. This suggests that next year’s flagships might be fuelled by processors that are based on Arm A76-based architecture.
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