GW5A-60 vs XC7S50
A comparison of the Gowin Arora V GW5A-60 and the AMD Spartan-7 XC7S50 using the data from both vendors' selection guides.
Side-by-side specifications
| GW5A-60 | XC7S50 | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor / family | Gowin Arora V | AMD Spartan-7 |
| Logic (LUT4-equivalent) | 59,904 | 52,160 |
| LUTs as published | 59,904 LUT4 | 32,600 LUT6 |
| Vendor logic figure | — LC | 52,160 LC |
| DSP | 118 27×18 DSP blocks | 120 DSP slices |
| Block RAM | 2.1 Mb | 2.6 Mb |
| Large RAM | — | — |
| Max. user I/O | 320 | 250 |
| Transceivers | None | None |
| Hard PCI Express | None | None |
| Hard processor | None | None |
| Process | 22 nm | 28 nm |
| Configuration memory | SRAM | SRAM |
| Packages | 2 | 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 GW5A-60 has about 15% more logic capacity (59.9K vs 52.2K LUT4 equivalents).
They use different logic architectures: the GW5A-60 is built from LUT4 and the XC7S50 from LUT6, so the raw LUT counts (59.9K vs 32.6K) are not directly comparable.
For arithmetic, the XC7S50 has 120 DSP slices against 118 27×18 DSP blocks on the GW5A-60.
The XC7S50 has more on-chip memory (2.6 Mb vs 2.1 Mb).
The GW5A-60 is designed with Gowin EDA and the XC7S50 with AMD Vivado.
Full specifications
See the complete spec sheets with packages and grades: GW5A-60 (Arora V) and XC7S50 (Spartan-7).