5SGXA9 vs XCVU095
A comparison of the Altera Stratix V 5SGXA9 and the AMD Virtex UltraScale XCVU095 using the data from both vendors' selection guides.
Side-by-side specifications
| 5SGXA9 | XCVU095 | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor / family | Altera Stratix V | AMD Virtex UltraScale |
| LUTs as published | 317,000 ALMs | 537,600 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.) | ≈634,000 | ≈860,160 |
| CoreScore (SERV cores) | — | — |
| Vendor logic figure | 840,000 LE | 1,176,000 SLC |
| DSP | 352 variable-precision DSP blocks | 768 DSP slices |
| Block RAM | 51.6 Mb | 60.8 Mb |
| Large RAM | — | — |
| Max. user I/O | 840 | 832 |
| Transceivers | 48 × GX 14.1 Gb/s | 32 × GTH 16.3 Gb/s, 32 × GTY 30.5 Gb/s |
| Hard PCI Express | Gen3 | Gen3 |
| Hard processor | None | None |
| Process | 28 nm | 20 nm |
| Configuration memory | SRAM | SRAM |
| Packages | 2 | 6 |
| 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 XCVU095 has about 36% more logic capacity (860K vs 634K LUT4 equivalents).
They use different logic architectures: the 5SGXA9 is built from ALMs and the XCVU095 from LUT6, so the raw LUT counts (317K vs 538K) are not directly comparable.
For arithmetic, the XCVU095 has 768 DSP slices against 352 variable-precision DSP blocks on the 5SGXA9.
The XCVU095 has more on-chip memory (60.8 Mb vs 51.6 Mb).
Both have transceivers: 48 at up to 14.1 Gb/s on the 5SGXA9 and 64 at up to 30.5 Gb/s on the XCVU095.
The 5SGXA9 is designed with Altera Quartus Prime and the XCVU095 with AMD Vivado.
Full specifications
See the complete spec sheets with packages and grades: 5SGXA9 (Stratix V) and XCVU095 (Virtex UltraScale).