5AGXA7 vs XC6VLX240T
A comparison of the Altera Arria V 5AGXA7 and the AMD Virtex-6 XC6VLX240T using the data from both vendors' selection guides.
Side-by-side specifications
| 5AGXA7 | XC6VLX240T | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor / family | Altera Arria V | AMD Virtex-6 |
| LUTs as published | 91,680 ALMs | 150,720 LUT6 |
| LUT type | adaptive logic module: fracturable 8-input LUT (one 6-input or two independent 4-input functions) | 6-input look-up table, fracturable into two LUT5 with shared inputs |
| LUT4 equivalent (approx.) | ≈183,360 | ≈241,152 |
| CoreScore (SERV cores) | — | — |
| Vendor logic figure | 242,000 LE | 241,152 LC |
| DSP | 800 variable-precision DSP blocks | 768 DSP48E1 slices |
| Block RAM | 13.3 Mb | 14.6 Mb |
| Large RAM | — | — |
| Max. user I/O | 544 | 720 |
| Transceivers | 24 × XCVR 6.5536 Gb/s | 24 × GTX 6.6 Gb/s |
| Hard PCI Express | Gen2 x4 | Gen2 x8 |
| Hard processor | None | None |
| Process | 28 nm | 40 nm |
| Configuration memory | SRAM | SRAM |
| Packages | 3 | 3 |
| Design tool | Altera Quartus Prime | AMD ISE Design Suite |
Highlighted values are higher. LUT counts are shown as published; the LUT4 equivalent is an approximation to compare different LUT types, see how FPGA vendors count logic. Add up to two more devices to this comparison.
Key differences
The XC6VLX240T has about 32% more logic capacity (241K vs 183K LUT4 equivalents).
They use different logic architectures: the 5AGXA7 is built from ALMs and the XC6VLX240T from LUT6, so the raw LUT counts (91.7K vs 151K) are not directly comparable.
For arithmetic, the 5AGXA7 has 800 variable-precision DSP blocks against 768 DSP48E1 slices on the XC6VLX240T.
Both have transceivers: 24 at up to 6.5536 Gb/s on the 5AGXA7 and 24 at up to 6.6 Gb/s on the XC6VLX240T.
The 5AGXA7 is designed with Altera Quartus Prime and the XC6VLX240T with AMD ISE Design Suite.
Full specifications
See the complete spec sheets with packages and grades: 5AGXA7 (Arria V) and XC6VLX240T (Virtex-6).