EP4CGX150 vs XCAU15P
A comparison of the Altera Cyclone IV EP4CGX150 and the AMD Artix UltraScale+ XCAU15P using the data from both vendors' selection guides.
Side-by-side specifications
| EP4CGX150 | XCAU15P | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor / family | Altera Cyclone IV | AMD Artix UltraScale+ |
| Logic (LUT4-equivalent) | 150,000 | 124,800 |
| LUTs as published | 150,000 LUT4 | 78,000 LUT6 |
| Vendor logic figure | 150,000 LE | 170,000 SLC |
| DSP | 360 18×18 multipliers | 576 DSP slices |
| Block RAM | 6.3 Mb | 5.1 Mb |
| Large RAM | — | — |
| Max. user I/O | 475 | 228 |
| Transceivers | 8 × XCVR 3.125 Gb/s | 12 × GTH 16.3 Gb/s |
| Hard PCI Express | Gen2 | Gen4 x8 |
| Hard processor | None | None |
| Process | 60 nm | 16 nm |
| Configuration memory | SRAM | SRAM |
| Packages | 3 | 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
The EP4CGX150 has about 20% more logic capacity (150K vs 125K LUT4 equivalents).
They use different logic architectures: the EP4CGX150 is built from LUT4 and the XCAU15P from LUT6, so the raw LUT counts (150K vs 78K) are not directly comparable.
For arithmetic, the XCAU15P has 576 DSP slices against 360 18×18 multipliers on the EP4CGX150.
The EP4CGX150 has more on-chip memory (6.3 Mb vs 5.1 Mb).
Both have transceivers: 8 at up to 3.125 Gb/s on the EP4CGX150 and 12 at up to 16.3 Gb/s on the XCAU15P.
The EP4CGX150 is designed with Altera Quartus Prime and the XCAU15P with AMD Vivado.
Full specifications
See the complete spec sheets with packages and grades: EP4CGX150 (Cyclone IV) and XCAU15P (Artix UltraScale+).