Arm has announced its new flagship Immortalis GPU for mobile, which offers hardware-based ray tracing on smartphones. This is a first for Arm. New second-generation Armv9 CPUs have also been introduced. All these form Arm’s Total Compute Solutions (TCS22). Here are all the details to know.
Arm Immortalis-G715 GPU is meant to provide an ‘ultimate gaming experience’ with support for AAA games. It offers features like hardware ray tracing, which offers a realistic gaming experience with real lighting and shadows. This, however, can take a toll on the SoC. The Immortalis-G715 only used 4% of the shader core area and can deliver a 300% improved performance through hardware acceleration.
There’s also support for Variable Rate Shading and a New Execution Engine. The Execution Engine can deliver two times improvements in FMA (e fused multiply-add) with just a 27% area increase.
Armv9 CPUs: Specs and Features
The new Armv9 CPUs include the Arm Cortex-X3 and Arm Cortex-A715, and there are updates for the Arm Cortex-A510 CPU too. The new Armv9 CPUs are expected to provide a 25% increased peak performance and a 20% increased power efficiency. While the Cortex-X3 offers 34% improved single-threaded performance, the Cortex-A715 can provide a 5% performance uplift as compared to the Cortex-A710 CPU.
There are improvements for the Arm Cortex-A510 CPU, which is last year’s “LITTLE” Armv9 CPU. This involves a 5% power reduction. The LITTLE CPU cores will provide power efficiency, thus, resulting in better battery life. The gaming part, computing performance, and security have also been improved.
