5SGXA7 vs XCVU065
A comparison of the Altera Stratix V 5SGXA7 and the AMD Virtex UltraScale XCVU065 using the data from both vendors' selection guides.
Side-by-side specifications
| 5SGXA7 | XCVU065 | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor / family | Altera Stratix V | AMD Virtex UltraScale |
| LUTs as published | 234,720 ALMs | 358,080 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.) | ≈469,440 | ≈572,928 |
| CoreScore (SERV cores) | 1,568 | — |
| Vendor logic figure | 622,000 LE | 783,000 SLC |
| DSP | 256 variable-precision DSP blocks | 600 DSP slices |
| Block RAM | 50 Mb | 44.3 Mb |
| Large RAM | — | — |
| Max. user I/O | 840 | 520 |
| Transceivers | 48 × GX 14.1 Gb/s | 20 × GTH 16.3 Gb/s, 20 × GTY 30.5 Gb/s |
| Hard PCI Express | Gen3 | Gen3 |
| Hard processor | None | None |
| Process | 28 nm | 20 nm |
| Configuration memory | SRAM | SRAM |
| Packages | 5 | 1 |
| 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
The XCVU065 has about 22% more logic capacity (573K vs 469K LUT4 equivalents).
They use different logic architectures: the 5SGXA7 is built from ALMs and the XCVU065 from LUT6, so the raw LUT counts (235K vs 358K) are not directly comparable.
For arithmetic, the XCVU065 has 600 DSP slices against 256 variable-precision DSP blocks on the 5SGXA7.
The 5SGXA7 has more on-chip memory (50 Mb vs 44.3 Mb).
Both have transceivers: 48 at up to 14.1 Gb/s on the 5SGXA7 and 40 at up to 30.5 Gb/s on the XCVU065.
The 5SGXA7 is designed with Altera Quartus Prime and the XCVU065 with AMD Vivado.
Full specifications
See the complete spec sheets with packages and grades: 5SGXA7 (Stratix V) and XCVU065 (Virtex UltraScale).