A3C 100 vs XC7Z015
A comparison of the Altera Agilex 3 A3C 100 and the AMD Zynq 7000 XC7Z015 using the data from both vendors' selection guides.
Side-by-side specifications
| A3C 100 | XC7Z015 | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor / family | Altera Agilex 3 | AMD Zynq 7000 |
| Logic (LUT4-equivalent) | 68,000 | 73,920 |
| LUTs as published | 34,000 ALMs | 46,200 LUT6 |
| Vendor logic figure | 100,300 LE | 74,000 LC |
| DSP | 138 variable-precision DSP blocks | 160 DSP slices |
| Block RAM | 5.1 Mb | 3.3 Mb |
| Large RAM | — | — |
| Max. user I/O | 392 | 150 |
| Transceivers | 4 × XCVR 12.5 Gb/s | 4 × GTP 6.25 Gb/s |
| Hard PCI Express | Gen3 x4 | Gen2 x4 |
| Hard processor | 2× Arm Cortex-A55 (optional) | 2× Arm Cortex-A9 |
| Process | Intel 7 | 28 nm |
| Configuration memory | SRAM | SRAM |
| Packages | 3 | 1 |
| Design tool | Altera Quartus Prime | AMD Vivado |
Highlighted values are higher. Logic is compared in LUT4 equivalents; see how FPGA vendors count logic.
Key differences
The XC7Z015 has about 9% more logic capacity (73.9K vs 68K LUT4 equivalents).
They use different logic architectures: the A3C 100 is built from ALMs and the XC7Z015 from LUT6, so the raw LUT counts (34K vs 46.2K) are not directly comparable.
For arithmetic, the XC7Z015 has 160 DSP slices against 138 variable-precision DSP blocks on the A3C 100.
The A3C 100 has more on-chip memory (5.1 Mb vs 3.3 Mb).
Both have transceivers: 4 at up to 12.5 Gb/s on the A3C 100 and 4 at up to 6.25 Gb/s on the XC7Z015.
The A3C 100 is designed with Altera Quartus Prime and the XC7Z015 with AMD Vivado.
Full specifications
See the complete spec sheets with packages and grades: A3C 100 (Agilex 3) and XC7Z015 (Zynq 7000).