5ASXB5 vs XC7Z045
A comparison of the Altera Arria V 5ASXB5 and the AMD Zynq 7000 XC7Z045 using the data from both vendors' selection guides.
Side-by-side specifications
| 5ASXB5 | XC7Z045 | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor / family | Altera Arria V | AMD Zynq 7000 |
| LUTs as published | 174,340 ALMs | 218,600 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.) | ≈348,680 | ≈349,760 |
| CoreScore (SERV cores) | — | — |
| Vendor logic figure | 462,000 LE | 350,000 LC |
| DSP | 1,090 variable-precision DSP blocks | 900 DSP slices |
| Block RAM | 22.3 Mb | 19.2 Mb |
| Large RAM | — | — |
| Max. user I/O | 540 | 362 |
| Transceivers | 30 × XCVR 6.5536 Gb/s | 16 × GTX 12.5 Gb/s |
| Hard PCI Express | Gen2 x4 | Gen2 x8 |
| Hard processor | 2× Arm Cortex-A9 | 2× Arm Cortex-A9 |
| Process | 28 nm | 28 nm |
| Configuration memory | SRAM | SRAM |
| Packages | 3 | 3 |
| Design tool | Altera Quartus Prime | AMD Vivado |
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
Both devices offer similar logic capacity: 349K and 350K LUT4 equivalents.
They use different logic architectures: the 5ASXB5 is built from ALMs and the XC7Z045 from LUT6, so the raw LUT counts (174K vs 219K) are not directly comparable.
For arithmetic, the 5ASXB5 has 1,090 variable-precision DSP blocks against 900 DSP slices on the XC7Z045.
The 5ASXB5 has more on-chip memory (22.3 Mb vs 19.2 Mb).
Both have transceivers: 30 at up to 6.5536 Gb/s on the 5ASXB5 and 16 at up to 12.5 Gb/s on the XC7Z045.
The 5ASXB5 is designed with Altera Quartus Prime and the XC7Z045 with AMD Vivado; open source: openXC7 (experimental) with Project X-Ray.
Full specifications
See the complete spec sheets with packages and grades: 5ASXB5 (Arria V) and XC7Z045 (Zynq 7000).