AC7t1500 vs XCKU13P
A comparison of the Achronix Speedster7t AC7t1500 and the AMD Kintex UltraScale+ XCKU13P using the data from both vendors' selection guides.
Side-by-side specifications
| AC7t1500 | XCKU13P | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor / family | Achronix Speedster7t | AMD Kintex UltraScale+ |
| LUTs as published | 692,000 LUT6 | 341,000 LUT6 |
| LUT type | 6-input look-up table, fracturable into two LUT5 with shared inputs | 6-input look-up table, fracturable into two LUT5 with shared inputs |
| LUT4 equivalent (approx.) | ≈1,107,200 | ≈545,600 |
| CoreScore (SERV cores) | — | — |
| Vendor logic figure | 1,546,000 LC | 747,000 SLC |
| DSP | 2,560 MLPs | 3,528 DSP slices |
| Block RAM | 184.2 Mb | 26.2 Mb |
| Large RAM | — | 31.5 Mb |
| Max. user I/O | — | 304 |
| Transceivers | 32 × SerDes 112 Gb/s | 28 × GTH 16.3 Gb/s |
| Hard PCI Express | Gen5 x8, Gen5 x16 | None |
| Hard processor | None | None |
| Process | 7 nm | 16 nm |
| Configuration memory | SRAM | SRAM |
| Packages | 0 | 1 |
| Design tool | Achronix Tool Suite | 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 AC7t1500 has about 103% more logic capacity (1107K vs 546K LUT4 equivalents).
For arithmetic, the XCKU13P has 3,528 DSP slices against 2,560 MLPs on the AC7t1500.
The AC7t1500 has more on-chip memory (184.2 Mb vs 57.7 Mb).
Both have transceivers: 32 at up to 112 Gb/s on the AC7t1500 and 28 at up to 16.3 Gb/s on the XCKU13P.
The AC7t1500 is designed with Achronix Tool Suite and the XCKU13P with AMD Vivado.
Full specifications
See the complete spec sheets with packages and grades: AC7t1500 (Speedster7t) and XCKU13P (Kintex UltraScale+).