A5E 043A vs XC2VE3558
A comparison of the Altera Agilex 5 E-Series A5E 043A and the AMD Versal AI Edge Gen 2 XC2VE3558 using the data from both vendors' selection guides.
Side-by-side specifications
| A5E 043A | XC2VE3558 | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor / family | Altera Agilex 5 E-Series | AMD Versal AI Edge Gen 2 |
| LUTs as published | 147,200 ALMs | 225,000 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.) | ≈294,400 | ≈360,000 |
| CoreScore (SERV cores) | — | — |
| Vendor logic figure | 434,240 LE | 492,188 SLC |
| DSP | 564 variable-precision DSP blocks | 700 DSP Engines |
| Block RAM | 20.5 Mb | 13.6 Mb |
| Large RAM | — | 3.4 Mb |
| Max. user I/O | 504 | 428 |
| Transceivers | 16 × XCVR 28 Gb/s | 12 × 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 XC2VE3558 has about 22% more logic capacity (360K vs 294K LUT4 equivalents).
They use different logic architectures: the A5E 043A is built from ALMs and the XC2VE3558 from LUT6, so the raw LUT counts (147K vs 225K) are not directly comparable.
For arithmetic, the XC2VE3558 has 700 DSP Engines against 564 variable-precision DSP blocks on the A5E 043A.
The A5E 043A has more on-chip memory (20.5 Mb vs 17 Mb).
Both have transceivers: 16 at up to 28 Gb/s on the A5E 043A and 12 at up to 32.75 Gb/s on the XC2VE3558.
The A5E 043A is designed with Altera Quartus Prime and the XC2VE3558 with AMD Vivado.
Full specifications
See the complete spec sheets with packages and grades: A5E 043A (Agilex 5 E-Series) and XC2VE3558 (Versal AI Edge Gen 2).