GW3A-20 vs XCSU35P
A comparison of the Gowin Arora III GW3A-20 and the AMD Spartan UltraScale+ XCSU35P using the data from both vendors' selection guides.
Side-by-side specifications
| GW3A-20 | XCSU35P | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor / family | Gowin Arora III | AMD Spartan UltraScale+ |
| Logic (LUT4-equivalent) | 23,040 | 25,600 |
| LUTs as published | 23,040 LUT4 | 16,000 LUT6 |
| Vendor logic figure | — LC | 36,000 SLC |
| DSP | 52 DSP blocks | 48 DSP slices |
| Block RAM | 2.1 Mb | 1.7 Mb |
| Large RAM | — | — |
| Max. user I/O | 238 | 304 |
| Transceivers | None | None |
| Hard PCI Express | None | None |
| Hard processor | None | None |
| Process | — | 16 nm |
| Configuration memory | SRAM | SRAM |
| Packages | 6 | 3 |
| Design tool | Gowin EDA | AMD Vivado |
Highlighted values are higher. Logic is compared in LUT4 equivalents; see how FPGA vendors count logic.
Key differences
The XCSU35P has about 11% more logic capacity (25.6K vs 23K LUT4 equivalents).
They use different logic architectures: the GW3A-20 is built from LUT4 and the XCSU35P from LUT6, so the raw LUT counts (23K vs 16K) are not directly comparable.
For arithmetic, the GW3A-20 has 52 DSP blocks against 48 DSP slices on the XCSU35P.
The GW3A-20 has more on-chip memory (2.1 Mb vs 1.7 Mb).
The GW3A-20 is designed with Gowin EDA and the XCSU35P with AMD Vivado.
Full specifications
See the complete spec sheets with packages and grades: GW3A-20 (Arora III) and XCSU35P (Spartan UltraScale+).