(06-25-2019, 08:41 AM)TKSilver Wrote: This means changes like a 3 way super scaler vs a 2 way super scaler and more efficient (performance wise) out if order execution.
A53 are actually dual issue in-order cores, a72 being out-of-order - that's probably the biggest difference. I think everything these days is superscaler, it just means it's pipelined.
I seem to remember in dolphin the a57 could have a ~2x performance benefit at the same clockspeed over the a53 when running the JIT - as it doesn't generate code that really works well in-order.
An a72 isn't a lot faster, being more of a area/power/frequency update to the a57 than performance-per-clock, but it should be a significant boost compared to previous raspberry PIs.