A5D 160 vs XCVM2502
A comparison of the Altera Agilex 5 D-Series A5D 160 and the AMD Versal Prime XCVM2502 using the data from both vendors' selection guides.
Side-by-side specifications
| A5D 160 | XCVM2502 | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor / family | Altera Agilex 5 D-Series | AMD Versal Prime |
| Logic (LUT4-equivalent) | 1,096,000 | 1,440,358 |
| LUTs as published | 548,000 ALMs | 900,224 LUT6 |
| Vendor logic figure | 1,616,600 LE | 1,969,000 SLC |
| DSP | 4,968 variable-precision DSP blocks | 3,984 DSP Engines |
| Block RAM | 156.4 Mb | 47 Mb |
| Large RAM | — | 190 Mb |
| Max. user I/O | 888 | 648 |
| Transceivers | 48 × XCVR 28 Gb/s | 16 × GTYP 32.75 Gb/s |
| Hard PCI Express | Gen4 x4, Gen4 x8 | Gen5 x8 |
| Hard processor | 4× Arm Cortex-A76 + Cortex-A55 (optional) | 2× Arm Cortex-A72 |
| Process | Intel 7 | 7 nm |
| Configuration memory | SRAM | SRAM |
| Packages | 0 | 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 XCVM2502 has about 31% more logic capacity (1440K vs 1096K LUT4 equivalents).
They use different logic architectures: the A5D 160 is built from ALMs and the XCVM2502 from LUT6, so the raw LUT counts (548K vs 900K) are not directly comparable.
For arithmetic, the A5D 160 has 4,968 variable-precision DSP blocks against 3,984 DSP Engines on the XCVM2502.
The XCVM2502 has more on-chip memory (237 Mb vs 156.4 Mb).
Both have transceivers: 48 at up to 28 Gb/s on the A5D 160 and 16 at up to 32.75 Gb/s on the XCVM2502.
The A5D 160 is designed with Altera Quartus Prime and the XCVM2502 with AMD Vivado.
Full specifications
See the complete spec sheets with packages and grades: A5D 160 (Agilex 5 D-Series) and XCVM2502 (Versal Prime).