ARM Cortex-X4

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The ARM Cortex-X4 is a high-performance CPU core from Arm, released in 2023 as part of Arm's "total compute solution." [1] It serves as the successor of ARM Cortex-X3. X-series CPU cores generally focus on high performance, and can be grouped with other ARM cores, such as ARM Cortex-A720 or/and ARM Cortex-A520 in a System-on-Chip (SoC). [2] [3] [4] [5]

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ARM Cortex-X4
General information
Launched2023
Designed by ARM Ltd.
Performance
Address width40-bit
Cache
L1 cache 128 KiB (64 KiB I-cache with parity, 64 KiB D-cache) per core
L2 cache512–2048 KiB per core
L3 cache512 KiB – 32 MiB(optional)
Architecture and classification
Microarchitecture ARM Cortex-X4
Instruction set ARMv9.2-A
Physical specifications
Cores
  • 1–10 per cluster
Products, models, variants
Product code name(s)
  • "Hunter ELP"
Variant(s)
History
Predecessor(s) ARM Cortex-X3
Successor(s) ARM Cortex-X5

Architecture changes in comparison with ARM Cortex-X3

The processor implements the following changes: [2] [3] [4]

Performance claims:

Architecture comparison

uArchCortex-A78Cortex-X1Cortex-X2Cortex-X3Cortex-X4Cortex-X5
Peak clock speed~3.0 GHz~3.25 GHz~3.4 GHz
Decode Width45610 [6]
Dispatch6/cycle8/cycle10/cycle
Max In-flight2x1602x2242x2882x3202x384
L0 (Mops entries)1536 [7] 3,072 [7] 1536None [6]
L1-I + L1-D32+32 KiB [8] 64+64 KiB
L2128–512 KiB0.256 – 1 MiB0.5 – 2 MiB
L30–8 MiB0–16 MiB0–32 MiB
Architecture ARMv8.2 ARMv9 ARMv9.2

Usage

See also

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