According to the latest announcement from Imagination Technologies, that its MIPS P5600 has achieved a record-breaking score of 5.6 CoreMark/MHz, beating the previous top score held by the MIPS proAptiv core, delivers 20% more performance than its direct competitor while being significantly smaller in area. The result has also been certified by EEMBC, the benchmarking consortium that designs CoreMark.
P5600 is a member of our MIPS Warrior P-class processor family and targets ultimate performance for mobile and embedded applications.
This high-end MIPS CPU is also part of Imagination third generation of multi-issue, OoO (Out-of-Order), fully synthesizable processors; the figure below illustrates the evolution of high-performance MIPS CPUs over time, from 74K and proAptiv to present day.
MIPS P5600 even scores higher in CoreMark/MHz than Intel’s desktop line of CPUs. For example, an Intel Core i7-2640M processor achieves 14513.79 CoreMark at 2.8 GHz, or 5.18 CoreMark/MHz – nearly 10% lower than the latest result for MIPS P5600.
This unprecedented level of performance efficiency will offer a welcome boost to MIPS-based embedded processors used for power-sensitive applications such as mobile, home entertainment, networking, automotive and many others.
Even more importantly, these results have been achieved using the latest off-the-shelf GCC compiler. All of our customers can access this high-performance toolchain either as source from partners or packaged in SDKs from Imagination.
MIPS P5600 offers 20% more raw performance in a smaller area
