GX 2500 vs XCVU9P
A comparison of the Altera Stratix 10 GX/SX GX 2500 and the AMD Virtex UltraScale+ XCVU9P using the data from both vendors' selection guides.
Side-by-side specifications
| GX 2500 | XCVU9P | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor / family | Altera Stratix 10 GX/SX | AMD Virtex UltraScale+ |
| Logic (LUT4-equivalent) | 1,642,300 | 1,891,200 |
| LUTs as published | 821,150 ALMs | 1,182,000 LUT6 |
| Vendor logic figure | 2,422,000 LE | 2,586,000 SLC |
| DSP | 5,011 variable-precision DSP blocks | 6,840 DSP slices |
| Block RAM | 195 Mb | 75.9 Mb |
| Large RAM | — | 270 Mb |
| Max. user I/O | 1,160 | 832 |
| Transceivers | 64 × XCVR 28.3 Gb/s, 32 × XCVR 17.4 Gb/s | 120 × 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 XCVU9P has about 15% more logic capacity (1891K vs 1642K LUT4 equivalents).
They use different logic architectures: the GX 2500 is built from ALMs and the XCVU9P from LUT6, so the raw LUT counts (821K vs 1182K) are not directly comparable.
For arithmetic, the XCVU9P has 6,840 DSP slices against 5,011 variable-precision DSP blocks on the GX 2500.
The XCVU9P has more on-chip memory (345.9 Mb vs 195 Mb).
Both have transceivers: 96 at up to 28.3 Gb/s on the GX 2500 and 120 at up to 32.75 Gb/s on the XCVU9P.
The GX 2500 is designed with Altera Quartus Prime and the XCVU9P with AMD Vivado.
Full specifications
See the complete spec sheets with packages and grades: GX 2500 (Stratix 10 GX/SX) and XCVU9P (Virtex UltraScale+).