GX 2500 vs XCVU5P
A comparison of the Altera Stratix 10 GX/SX GX 2500 and the AMD Virtex UltraScale+ XCVU5P using the data from both vendors' selection guides.
Side-by-side specifications
| GX 2500 | XCVU5P | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor / family | Altera Stratix 10 GX/SX | AMD Virtex UltraScale+ |
| Logic (LUT4-equivalent) | 1,642,300 | 961,600 |
| LUTs as published | 821,150 ALMs | 601,000 LUT6 |
| Vendor logic figure | 2,422,000 LE | 1,314,000 SLC |
| DSP | 5,011 variable-precision DSP blocks | 3,474 DSP slices |
| Block RAM | 195 Mb | 36 Mb |
| Large RAM | — | 132.2 Mb |
| Max. user I/O | 1,160 | 832 |
| Transceivers | 64 × XCVR 28.3 Gb/s, 32 × XCVR 17.4 Gb/s | 80 × GTY 32.75 Gb/s |
| Hard PCI Express | Gen3 x16 | Gen3 x16 |
| Hard processor | None | None |
| Process | 14 nm | 16 nm |
| Configuration memory | SRAM | SRAM |
| Packages | 3 | 0 |
| 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 GX 2500 has about 71% more logic capacity (1642K vs 962K LUT4 equivalents).
They use different logic architectures: the GX 2500 is built from ALMs and the XCVU5P from LUT6, so the raw LUT counts (821K vs 601K) are not directly comparable.
For arithmetic, the GX 2500 has 5,011 variable-precision DSP blocks against 3,474 DSP slices on the XCVU5P.
The GX 2500 has more on-chip memory (195 Mb vs 168.2 Mb).
Both have transceivers: 96 at up to 28.3 Gb/s on the GX 2500 and 80 at up to 32.75 Gb/s on the XCVU5P.
The GX 2500 is designed with Altera Quartus Prime and the XCVU5P with AMD Vivado.
Full specifications
See the complete spec sheets with packages and grades: GX 2500 (Stratix 10 GX/SX) and XCVU5P (Virtex UltraScale+).