A5E 028A vs XC2VE3358
A comparison of the Altera Agilex 5 E-Series A5E 028A and the AMD Versal AI Edge Gen 2 XC2VE3358 using the data from both vendors' selection guides.
Side-by-side specifications
| A5E 028A | XC2VE3358 | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor / family | Altera Agilex 5 E-Series | AMD Versal AI Edge Gen 2 |
| LUTs as published | 95,680 ALMs | 94,592 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.) | ≈191,360 | ≈151,347 |
| CoreScore (SERV cores) | — | — |
| Vendor logic figure | 282,256 LE | 206,920 SLC |
| DSP | 376 variable-precision DSP blocks | 184 DSP Engines |
| Block RAM | 14 Mb | 5 Mb |
| Large RAM | — | 13.2 Mb |
| Max. user I/O | 392 | 308 |
| Transceivers | 12 × XCVR 28 Gb/s | 4 × GTYP 32.75 Gb/s |
| Hard PCI Express | Gen4 x4 | Gen5 x4 |
| Hard processor | 4× Arm Cortex-A76 + Cortex-A55 (optional) | 8× Arm Cortex-A78AE |
| Process | Intel 7 | — |
| Configuration memory | SRAM | SRAM |
| Packages | 2 | 3 |
| 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 A5E 028A has about 26% more logic capacity (191K vs 151K LUT4 equivalents).
They use different logic architectures: the A5E 028A is built from ALMs and the XC2VE3358 from LUT6, so the raw LUT counts (95.7K vs 94.6K) are not directly comparable.
For arithmetic, the A5E 028A has 376 variable-precision DSP blocks against 184 DSP Engines on the XC2VE3358.
The XC2VE3358 has more on-chip memory (18.2 Mb vs 14 Mb).
Both have transceivers: 12 at up to 28 Gb/s on the A5E 028A and 4 at up to 32.75 Gb/s on the XC2VE3358.
The A5E 028A is designed with Altera Quartus Prime and the XC2VE3358 with AMD Vivado.
Full specifications
See the complete spec sheets with packages and grades: A5E 028A (Agilex 5 E-Series) and XC2VE3358 (Versal AI Edge Gen 2).