EP4CGX50 vs XCSU60P
A comparison of the Altera Cyclone IV EP4CGX50 and the AMD Spartan UltraScale+ XCSU60P using the data from both vendors' selection guides.
Side-by-side specifications
| EP4CGX50 | XCSU60P | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor / family | Altera Cyclone IV | AMD Spartan UltraScale+ |
| Logic (LUT4-equivalent) | 50,000 | 48,000 |
| LUTs as published | 50,000 LUT4 | 30,000 LUT6 |
| Vendor logic figure | 50,000 LE | 66,000 SLC |
| DSP | 140 18×18 multipliers | 144 DSP slices |
| Block RAM | 2.4 Mb | 3.4 Mb |
| Large RAM | — | — |
| Max. user I/O | 310 | 262 |
| Transceivers | 8 × XCVR 3.125 Gb/s | 4 × GTH 16.3 Gb/s |
| Hard PCI Express | Gen2 | Gen4 x4 |
| Hard processor | None | None |
| Process | 60 nm | 16 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: 50K and 48K LUT4 equivalents.
They use different logic architectures: the EP4CGX50 is built from LUT4 and the XCSU60P from LUT6, so the raw LUT counts (50K vs 30K) are not directly comparable.
For arithmetic, the XCSU60P has 144 DSP slices against 140 18×18 multipliers on the EP4CGX50.
The XCSU60P has more on-chip memory (3.4 Mb vs 2.4 Mb).
Both have transceivers: 8 at up to 3.125 Gb/s on the EP4CGX50 and 4 at up to 16.3 Gb/s on the XCSU60P.
The EP4CGX50 is designed with Altera Quartus Prime and the XCSU60P with AMD Vivado.
Full specifications
See the complete spec sheets with packages and grades: EP4CGX50 (Cyclone IV) and XCSU60P (Spartan UltraScale+).