Allwinner A523
Allwinner A523
The Allwinner A523 is a very affordable ARM-based SoC for smartphones and tablets. The eight-core processor presented in 2023 consists of two quad-core clusters, each made up of 4 Cortex-A55 cores.
The faster quad cluster operates at a clock frequency of up to 1.8 GHz and offers 128 KB L2 cache per A55 core, while the second cluster clocks at up to 1.4 GHz and only offers 64 KB L2 cache per core.
In another version of the Allwinner A523, the first quad cluster clocks at up to 2.0 GHz. The ARM Mali-G57 MC1 is used as the graphics unit, which supports OpenGL 3.2, Vulkan 1.0 and OpenCL 2.0. A XuanTie E906 RISC-V PMU is also integrated.
The Allwinner SoC can control up to 4 GB DDR3/DDR4/LPDDR2/LPDDR3/LPDDR4/LPDDR4X RAM and eMMC 5.1 flash memory. In addition to PCIe 2.1, USB 3.1 Gen. 1 and Gigabit Ethernet are also supported as interfaces. There is also an H264/H265 video decoder (up to 4K at 60 frames per second) and an H264 encoder (up to 4K at 25 frames per second).
The Allwinner A523 is manufactured with a 22 nm structure width.
| Model | Allwinner A523 | |
| Codename | Cortex-A55 | |
| Clock | 480 - 2000 MHz | |
| L1 Cache | 512 KB | |
| L2 Cache | 768 KB | |
| L3 Cache | 1 MB | |
| Cores / Threads | 8 / 8 4 x 1.8 GHz ARM Cortex-A55 4 x 1.4 GHz ARM Cortex-A55 | |
| Technology | 22 nm | |
| Features | H.264 4K25 Encoding, 4K30 decoding, H.265 4K60 decoding, 32 Bit LPDDR4x memory controller, SD 3.0 / eMMC 5.1, Trustzone, Secure Boot, Security ID, USB 3.1, PCIe 2.1, RISC-V 200 MHz | |
| iGPU | ARM Mali-G57 MP1 | |
| Architecture | ARM | |
| Announced | ||
| Manufacturer | www.allwinnertech.com |
Benchmarks
Average Benchmarks Allwinner A523 → 0% n=0
- Average benchmark values for this graphics card* Smaller numbers mean a higher performance
1 This benchmark is not used for the average calculation
