A3C 025 vs GW5AS-25
A comparison of the Altera Agilex 3 A3C 025 and the Gowin Arora V GW5AS-25 using the data from both vendors' selection guides.
Side-by-side specifications
| A3C 025 | GW5AS-25 | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor / family | Altera Agilex 3 | Gowin Arora V |
| Logic (LUT4-equivalent) | 17,000 | 23,040 |
| LUTs as published | 8,500 ALMs | 23,040 LUT4 |
| Vendor logic figure | 25,075 LE | — LC |
| DSP | 34 variable-precision DSP blocks | 28 27×18 DSP blocks |
| Block RAM | 1.3 Mb | 1 Mb |
| Large RAM | — | — |
| Max. user I/O | 256 | 239 |
| Transceivers | None | None |
| Hard PCI Express | None | None |
| Hard processor | 2× Arm Cortex-A55 (optional) | 1× Cortex-M4 |
| Process | Intel 7 | 22 nm |
| Configuration memory | SRAM | SRAM |
| Packages | 3 | 3 |
| Design tool | Altera Quartus Prime | Gowin EDA |
Highlighted values are higher. Logic is compared in LUT4 equivalents; see how FPGA vendors count logic.
Key differences
The GW5AS-25 has about 36% more logic capacity (23K vs 17K LUT4 equivalents).
They use different logic architectures: the A3C 025 is built from ALMs and the GW5AS-25 from LUT4, so the raw LUT counts (8.5K vs 23K) are not directly comparable.
For arithmetic, the A3C 025 has 34 variable-precision DSP blocks against 28 27×18 DSP blocks on the GW5AS-25.
The A3C 025 has more on-chip memory (1.3 Mb vs 1 Mb).
The A3C 025 is designed with Altera Quartus Prime and the GW5AS-25 with Gowin EDA.
Full specifications
See the complete spec sheets with packages and grades: A3C 025 (Agilex 3) and GW5AS-25 (Arora V).