A5E 043A vs XC7Z035
A comparison of the Altera Agilex 5 E-Series A5E 043A and the AMD Zynq 7000 XC7Z035 using the data from both vendors' selection guides.
Side-by-side specifications
| A5E 043A | XC7Z035 | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor / family | Altera Agilex 5 E-Series | AMD Zynq 7000 |
| Logic (LUT4-equivalent) | 294,400 | 275,040 |
| LUTs as published | 147,200 ALMs | 171,900 LUT6 |
| Vendor logic figure | 434,240 LE | 275,000 LC |
| DSP | 564 variable-precision DSP blocks | 900 DSP slices |
| Block RAM | 20.5 Mb | 17.6 Mb |
| Large RAM | — | — |
| Max. user I/O | 504 | 362 |
| Transceivers | 16 × XCVR 28 Gb/s | 16 × GTX 12.5 Gb/s |
| Hard PCI Express | Gen4 x4 | Gen2 x8 |
| Hard processor | 4× Arm Cortex-A76 + Cortex-A55 (optional) | 2× Arm Cortex-A9 |
| Process | Intel 7 | 28 nm |
| Configuration memory | SRAM | SRAM |
| Packages | 2 | 3 |
| 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: 294K and 275K LUT4 equivalents.
They use different logic architectures: the A5E 043A is built from ALMs and the XC7Z035 from LUT6, so the raw LUT counts (147K vs 172K) are not directly comparable.
For arithmetic, the XC7Z035 has 900 DSP slices against 564 variable-precision DSP blocks on the A5E 043A.
The A5E 043A has more on-chip memory (20.5 Mb vs 17.6 Mb).
Both have transceivers: 16 at up to 28 Gb/s on the A5E 043A and 16 at up to 12.5 Gb/s on the XC7Z035.
The A5E 043A is designed with Altera Quartus Prime and the XC7Z035 with AMD Vivado.
Full specifications
See the complete spec sheets with packages and grades: A5E 043A (Agilex 5 E-Series) and XC7Z035 (Zynq 7000).