Comparison of ARMv7-A cores

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This is a table comparing microarchitectures which implement the ARM ARMv7-A (A means Application[1]) instruction set architecture and mandatory or optional extensions of it, the last AArch32.

Table[]

core decode
width		 execution
ports		 pipeline
depth		 Out-of-order execution FPU pipelined
VFP		 FPU
registers		 NEON
(SIMD)		 big.LITTLE
role		 virtualization[2] process
technology		 L0
cache		 L1
cache		 L2
cache		 core
configurations		 speed
per
core
(DMIPS
/ MHz)		 ARM part number
(in the main ID register)
ARM Cortex-A5 1 8 No VFPv4 (optional) 16 × 64-bit 64-bit wide (optional) No No 40/28 nm 4–64 KiB / core 1, 2, 4 1.57 0xC05
ARM Cortex-A7 2 5 [3] 8 No VFPv4 Yes 16 × 64-bit 64-bit wide LITTLE Yes [4] 40/28 nm 8–64 KiB / core up to 1 MiB (optional) 1, 2, 4, 8 1.9 0xC07
ARM Cortex-A8 2 2 [5] 13 No VFPv3 No 32 × 64-bit 64-bit wide No No 65/55/45 nm 32 KiB + 32 KiB 256 or 512 (typical) KiB 1 2.0 0xC08
ARM Cortex-A9 2 3 [6] 8–11 [7] Yes VFPv3 (optional) Yes (16 or 32) × 64-bit 64-bit wide (optional) Companion Core No [7] 65/45/40/32/28 nm 32 KiB + 32 KiB 1 MiB 1, 2, 4 2.5 0xC09
ARM Cortex-A12 2 11 Yes VFPv4 Yes 32 × 64-bit 128-bit wide No [8] Yes 28 nm 32-64 KiB + 32 KiB 256 KiB, to 8 MiB 1, 2, 4 3.0 0xC0D
ARM Cortex-A15 3 8 [3] 15/17-25 Yes VFPv4 Yes 32 × 64-bit 128-bit wide big Yes [9] 32/28/20 nm 32 KiB + 32 KiB per core up to 4 MiB per cluster, up to 8 MiB per chip 2, 4, 8 (4×2) 3.5 to 4.01 0xC0F
ARM Cortex-A17 2 [10] 11+ Yes VFPv4 Yes 32 × 64-bit 128-bit wide big Yes 28 nm 32 KiB + 32 KiB per core 256 KiB, up to 8 MiB up to 4 4.0 0xC0E
Qualcomm Scorpion 2 3 [11] 10 Yes (FXU&LSU only) [12] VFPv3 Yes 128-bit wide No 65/45 nm 32 KiB + 32 KiB 256 KiB (single-core)
512 KiB (dual-core) 		1, 2 2.1 0x00F
Qualcomm Krait[13] 3 7 11 Yes VFPv4 [14] Yes 128-bit wide No 28 nm 4 KiB + 4 KiB direct mapped 16 KiB + 16 KiB 4-way set associative 1 MiB 8-way set associative (dual-core) / 2 MiB (quad-core) 2, 4 3.3 (Krait 200)
3.39 (Krait 300)
3.39 (Krait 400)
3.51 (Krait 450) 		0x04D

0x06F
Apple A6 3 5 12 Yes VFPv4 Yes 32 × 64-bit 128-bit wide No 32 nm 32 KiB + 32 KiB 1 MiB 2 3.5 ?
core decode
width 		execution
ports 		pipeline
depth 		Out-of-order execution FPU pipelined
VFP 		FPU
registers 		NEON
(SIMD) 		big.LITTLE
role 		virtualization[2] process
technology 		L0
cache 		L1
cache 		L2
cache 		core
configurations 		speed
per
core
(DMIPS
/ MHz) 		ARM part number
(in the main ID register)

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