Subscribe to Xataka MobileReceive an email a day with our articles:The British company ARM is responsible for the processor designs that we have in practically all mobiles.Last year it made the biggest leap in a decade with the ARMv9 architecture on which the Cortex-X2, Cortex-A710 and Cortex-A510 cores found in high-end SoCs are based.Now comes the second generation of ARMv9 cores, accompanied by new GPUs.ARM has announced the new Cortex-X3 and Cortex A715 cores, an update to the Cortex-A510 cores, and three new GPUs: ARM-Inmortalis-G715, Mali-G715, and Mali-G615.The premise is the usual: better performance, more efficient power consumption and the first ARM graphics card with support for Raytracing.The design for the processor cores that we will see in the near future are already ready.The most powerful of them is the Cortex-X3 which, predictably, arrives as an improvement on the Cortex-X2, for the highest-end processors.A few weeks ago it was leaked that it would be on board the next Snapdragon 8 Gen 2.According to ARM's calculations, the Cortex-X3 represents a 25% performance improvement over its predecessor while remaining open to the Cortex-X customization program whereby partners can alter the final design to their requirements.A step below is the Cortex-A715, the new high-performance core that improves its performance by 5% while increasing power efficiency by 20%, compared to the previous Cortex-A710.The improved performance of the Cortex-A715 design brings it up to par in performance to the Cortex-X1, the most powerful in-house from a couple of years ago and the "extreme" performance core of the Snapdragon 888.Finally we have the Cortex-A510 which, yes, keeps the same name despite having been updated.This revamped, more energy efficient core design maintains last year's performance but with a 5% energy efficiency improvement.ARM makes its debut in premium GPUs with its new Immortalis-G715 that comes as a response to the GPUs resulting from the collaboration between Samsung and AMD.We will see the Immortalis-G715 GPU in the most premium Android mobiles, to which it will provide the highest performance and the first time that an ARM GPU offers hardware-based ray tracing.The Dimensity 9000, for example, supported software ray tracing.This Immortalis GPU is based on an architecture that already offers 15% more performance than the previous generation and also supports Variable Rate Shading.Raw power doesn't go unchecked, as Immortalis GPU raytracing uses only 4% of the central area of ​​the shader, optimizing power usage.One step below are the Mali-G715 and Mali G615 GPUs, which we will see in high-end mobiles.Like the Immortalis, both GPUs support Variable Rate Shading, the feature that provides higher performance and lower power usage by focusing "rendering efforts" on the important parts while reducing them on the less important parts, without being able to perceive differences visually.The architectures are ready and now it is the turn for companies like Qualcomm or MediaTek to take over and make these architectures a reality in the next SoCs.We won't see them on our high-end phones until at least sometime in 2023.More information |MRAShare ARM presents the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 cores and GPU: raytracing, more performance and better efficiencyMore Sites You'll LikeSee more articlesSee more videosAt Xataka Móvil we talk about...