A5E 052B vs XC7Z045
A comparison of the Altera Agilex 5 E-Series A5E 052B and the AMD Zynq 7000 XC7Z045 using the data from both vendors' selection guides.
Side-by-side specifications
| A5E 052B | XC7Z045 | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor / family | Altera Agilex 5 E-Series | AMD Zynq 7000 |
| Logic (LUT4-equivalent) | 355,200 | 349,760 |
| LUTs as published | 177,600 ALMs | 218,600 LUT6 |
| Vendor logic figure | 523,920 LE | 350,000 LC |
| DSP | 676 variable-precision DSP blocks | 900 DSP slices |
| Block RAM | 25.2 Mb | 19.2 Mb |
| Large RAM | — | — |
| Max. user I/O | 504 | 362 |
| Transceivers | 24 × XCVR 17 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: 355K and 350K LUT4 equivalents.
They use different logic architectures: the A5E 052B is built from ALMs and the XC7Z045 from LUT6, so the raw LUT counts (178K vs 219K) are not directly comparable.
For arithmetic, the XC7Z045 has 900 DSP slices against 676 variable-precision DSP blocks on the A5E 052B.
The A5E 052B has more on-chip memory (25.2 Mb vs 19.2 Mb).
Both have transceivers: 24 at up to 17 Gb/s on the A5E 052B and 16 at up to 12.5 Gb/s on the XC7Z045.
The A5E 052B is designed with Altera Quartus Prime and the XC7Z045 with AMD Vivado.
Full specifications
See the complete spec sheets with packages and grades: A5E 052B (Agilex 5 E-Series) and XC7Z045 (Zynq 7000).