A Comparison of ARM Cortex-A Series Processor Performance Classifications

[schaefer]

If this write-up has a target audience, I'm in it.

However... the graphics are pulled directly off the ARM website[1] and IMO, having an automatic pop-up on the page that says "talk to us about sales" subverts the good will that could other wise have been generated.

Finally, anyone who tries to tell me that A53 is "high-end" in 2023 will get some side-eye.

[1]: https://www.arm.com/products/silicon-ip-cpu/cortex-a/cortex-...

[dragontamer]

> Finally, anyone who tries to tell me that A53 is "high-end" in 2023 will get some side-eye.

You know that Microchip's SAM9x60 from 2020 is running ARM926EJ-S (aka: ARMv5) with J for Jazelle instructions, right?

"Embedded" world moves slower than consumer world. ARM Cortex-A53 is high-end for embedded. This is a world where 8051 and Z80 chips are still being made.

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I feel like a lot of MPUs released in the last 2 years (i.MX from NXP, STM32MP1 and soon-to-be-released MP2, etc. etc.) are in the ARM-Cortex A7-ish tier.

[zauguin]

(2017) (?) (Based on referring to the Cortex A73 as "ARM's latest A-Series processor")

[dmitrygr]

This is a museum piece, missing most of the last 7 years of ARM cores

[uxp8u61q]

Blog posts without a date are a scourge.

[meepmorp]

> This is ARM's latest A-Series processor released in 2016, the Cortex-A73 supports full-size ARMv8-A architecture, and the ARMv8-A is ARM's first processor architecture to support 64-bit instruction sets, including ARM TrustZone, NEON, virtualization, and encryption.

The article is 6-7 years old.