A5E 008B vs XC7Z012S
A comparison of the Altera Agilex 5 E-Series A5E 008B and the AMD Zynq 7000 XC7Z012S using the data from both vendors' selection guides.
Side-by-side specifications
| A5E 008B | XC7Z012S | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor / family | Altera Agilex 5 E-Series | AMD Zynq 7000 |
| Logic (LUT4-equivalent) | 57,760 | 55,040 |
| LUTs as published | 28,880 ALMs | 34,400 LUT6 |
| Vendor logic figure | 85,196 LE | 55,000 LC |
| DSP | 116 variable-precision DSP blocks | 120 DSP slices |
| Block RAM | 4.5 Mb | 2.5 Mb |
| Large RAM | — | — |
| Max. user I/O | 392 | 150 |
| Transceivers | 4 × XCVR 17 Gb/s | 4 × GTP 6.25 Gb/s |
| Hard PCI Express | Gen4 x4 | Gen2 x4 |
| Hard processor | 4× Arm Cortex-A76 + Cortex-A55 (optional) | 1× Arm Cortex-A9 |
| Process | Intel 7 | 28 nm |
| Configuration memory | SRAM | SRAM |
| Packages | 4 | 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
Both devices offer similar logic capacity: 57.8K and 55K LUT4 equivalents.
They use different logic architectures: the A5E 008B is built from ALMs and the XC7Z012S from LUT6, so the raw LUT counts (28.9K vs 34.4K) are not directly comparable.
For arithmetic, the XC7Z012S has 120 DSP slices against 116 variable-precision DSP blocks on the A5E 008B.
The A5E 008B has more on-chip memory (4.5 Mb vs 2.5 Mb).
Both have transceivers: 4 at up to 17 Gb/s on the A5E 008B and 4 at up to 6.25 Gb/s on the XC7Z012S.
The A5E 008B is designed with Altera Quartus Prime and the XC7Z012S with AMD Vivado.
Full specifications
See the complete spec sheets with packages and grades: A5E 008B (Agilex 5 E-Series) and XC7Z012S (Zynq 7000).