GX 2100 vs XCVU440
A comparison of the Altera Stratix 10 GX/SX GX 2100 and the AMD Virtex UltraScale XCVU440 using the data from both vendors' selection guides.
Side-by-side specifications
| GX 2100 | XCVU440 | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor / family | Altera Stratix 10 GX/SX | AMD Virtex UltraScale |
| LUTs as published | 679,680 ALMs | 2,532,960 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.) | ≈1,359,360 | ≈4,052,736 |
| CoreScore (SERV cores) | — | — |
| Vendor logic figure | 2,005,000 LE | 5,541,000 SLC |
| DSP | 3,744 variable-precision DSP blocks | 2,880 DSP slices |
| Block RAM | 127 Mb | 88.6 Mb |
| Large RAM | — | — |
| Max. user I/O | 704 | 1,456 |
| Transceivers | 64 × XCVR 28.3 Gb/s, 32 × XCVR 17.4 Gb/s | 48 × GTH 16.3 Gb/s |
| Hard PCI Express | Gen3 x16 | Gen3 |
| Hard processor | None | None |
| Process | 14 nm | 20 nm |
| Configuration memory | SRAM | SRAM |
| Packages | 2 | 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 XCVU440 has about 198% more logic capacity (4053K vs 1359K LUT4 equivalents).
They use different logic architectures: the GX 2100 is built from ALMs and the XCVU440 from LUT6, so the raw LUT counts (680K vs 2533K) are not directly comparable.
For arithmetic, the GX 2100 has 3,744 variable-precision DSP blocks against 2,880 DSP slices on the XCVU440.
The GX 2100 has more on-chip memory (127 Mb vs 88.6 Mb).
Both have transceivers: 96 at up to 28.3 Gb/s on the GX 2100 and 48 at up to 16.3 Gb/s on the XCVU440.
The GX 2100 is designed with Altera Quartus Prime and the XCVU440 with AMD Vivado.
Full specifications
See the complete spec sheets with packages and grades: GX 2100 (Stratix 10 GX/SX) and XCVU440 (Virtex UltraScale).