Arm's earlier ~7% GB6 uplift seems to have been measured with GB6.0. The latest testing is now with GB6.1+ and Arm had a major IPC uplift this year:
+10% IPC uplift. That's stellar cadence.
Percentages are normalized to the X3.
- Apple A17 Pro - 774 pts / GHz (3.78 GHz / 2,926 pts) - 121.1%
- Qualcomm SDXE / Oryon - 750 pts / GHz (4.30 GHz / 3,227 pts) - 117.4%
- Qualcomm SD8G3 / Arm Cortex-X4 - 706 pts / GHz (3.30 GHz / 2,329 pts) - 110.5%
- Qualcomm SD8G2 / Arm Cortex-X3 - 639 pts / GHz (3.36 GHz / 2,146 pts) - 100.0%
Arm's Cortex-X4, in GB6 IPC, is really closing the gap vs Apple P-cores that, on average, have achieved very low IPC uplifts since 2020.
As we talked about in the Qualcomm Oryon threads, Oryon was delayed so long + Arm executed so consistently that the Cortex-X4 (devices launching 7+ months before Oryon devices) achieves
94% of the Oryon IPC. We've been waiting 3+ years for NUVIA's Phoenix uArch and it's now coming out that Arm's IPC was just right behind it all along.
That is incredible.