EP2AGX45 vs XCAU7P
A comparison of the Altera Arria II EP2AGX45 and the AMD Artix UltraScale+ XCAU7P using the data from both vendors' selection guides.
Side-by-side specifications
| EP2AGX45 | XCAU7P | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor / family | Altera Arria II | AMD Artix UltraScale+ |
| LUTs as published | 18,050 ALMs | 37,000 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.) | ≈36,100 | ≈59,200 |
| CoreScore (SERV cores) | — | — |
| Vendor logic figure | 43,000 LE | 82,000 SLC |
| DSP | 232 18×18 multipliers | 216 DSP slices |
| Block RAM | 2.8 Mb | 3.8 Mb |
| Large RAM | — | — |
| Max. user I/O | 364 | 248 |
| Transceivers | 8 × XCVR 6.375 Gb/s | 4 × GTH 16.3 Gb/s |
| Hard PCI Express | Gen1 | Gen3 x4 |
| Hard processor | None | None |
| Process | 40 nm | 16 nm |
| Configuration memory | SRAM | SRAM |
| Packages | 3 | 2 |
| 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 XCAU7P has about 64% more logic capacity (59.2K vs 36.1K LUT4 equivalents).
They use different logic architectures: the EP2AGX45 is built from ALMs and the XCAU7P from LUT6, so the raw LUT counts (18.1K vs 37K) are not directly comparable.
For arithmetic, the EP2AGX45 has 232 18×18 multipliers against 216 DSP slices on the XCAU7P.
The XCAU7P has more on-chip memory (3.8 Mb vs 2.8 Mb).
Both have transceivers: 8 at up to 6.375 Gb/s on the EP2AGX45 and 4 at up to 16.3 Gb/s on the XCAU7P.
The EP2AGX45 is designed with Altera Quartus Prime and the XCAU7P with AMD Vivado.
Full specifications
See the complete spec sheets with packages and grades: EP2AGX45 (Arria II) and XCAU7P (Artix UltraScale+).