A27F012 vs XCVR1602
A comparison of the Altera Agilex 27 A27F012 and the AMD Versal RF XCVR1602 using the data from both vendors' selection guides.
Side-by-side specifications
| A27F012 | XCVR1602 | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor / family | Altera Agilex 27 | AMD Versal RF |
| LUTs as published | 399,672 ALMs | 551,040 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.) | ≈799,344 | ≈881,664 |
| CoreScore (SERV cores) | — | — |
| Vendor logic figure | 1,200,000 LE | 1,205,400 SLC |
| DSP | 1,464 AI Tensor DSP blocks | 2,256 DSP Engines |
| Block RAM | 57 Mb | 39 Mb |
| Large RAM | 76 Mb | 100 Mb |
| Max. user I/O | 312 | 470 |
| Transceivers | 16 × GX 128 Gb/s | 12 × GTYP 32.75 Gb/s, 8 × GTM 58 Gb/s |
| Hard PCI Express | Gen6 x8 | Gen5 x4 |
| Hard processor | 4× Arm Cortex-A720 + Cortex-A520 (optional) | 2× Arm Cortex-A72 |
| Process | — | — |
| Configuration memory | SRAM | SRAM |
| Packages | 4 | 2 |
| 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 XCVR1602 has about 10% more logic capacity (882K vs 799K LUT4 equivalents).
They use different logic architectures: the A27F012 is built from ALMs and the XCVR1602 from LUT6, so the raw LUT counts (400K vs 551K) are not directly comparable.
For arithmetic, the XCVR1602 has 2,256 DSP Engines against 1,464 AI Tensor DSP blocks on the A27F012.
Both have transceivers: 16 at up to 128 Gb/s on the A27F012 and 20 at up to 58 Gb/s on the XCVR1602.
The A27F012 is designed with Altera Quartus Prime and the XCVR1602 with AMD Vivado.
Full specifications
See the complete spec sheets with packages and grades: A27F012 (Agilex 27) and XCVR1602 (Versal RF).