GX 850 vs XC7VX550T
A comparison of the Altera Stratix 10 GX/SX GX 850 and the AMD Virtex-7 XC7VX550T using the data from both vendors' selection guides.
Side-by-side specifications
| GX 850 | XC7VX550T | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor / family | Altera Stratix 10 GX/SX | AMD Virtex-7 |
| Logic (LUT4-equivalent) | 569,920 | 554,240 |
| LUTs as published | 284,960 ALMs | 346,400 LUT6 |
| Vendor logic figure | 841,000 LE | 554,240 LC |
| DSP | 2,016 variable-precision DSP blocks | 2,880 DSP slices |
| Block RAM | 68 Mb | 41.5 Mb |
| Large RAM | — | — |
| Max. user I/O | 688 | 600 |
| Transceivers | 32 × XCVR 28.3 Gb/s, 16 × XCVR 17.4 Gb/s | 80 × GTH 13.1 Gb/s |
| Hard PCI Express | Gen3 x16 | Gen3 |
| Hard processor | None | None |
| Process | 14 nm | 28 nm |
| Configuration memory | SRAM | SRAM |
| Packages | 1 | 2 |
| 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
Both devices offer similar logic capacity: 570K and 554K LUT4 equivalents.
They use different logic architectures: the GX 850 is built from ALMs and the XC7VX550T from LUT6, so the raw LUT counts (285K vs 346K) are not directly comparable.
For arithmetic, the XC7VX550T has 2,880 DSP slices against 2,016 variable-precision DSP blocks on the GX 850.
The GX 850 has more on-chip memory (68 Mb vs 41.5 Mb).
Both have transceivers: 48 at up to 28.3 Gb/s on the GX 850 and 80 at up to 13.1 Gb/s on the XC7VX550T.
The GX 850 is designed with Altera Quartus Prime and the XC7VX550T with AMD Vivado.
Full specifications
See the complete spec sheets with packages and grades: GX 850 (Stratix 10 GX/SX) and XC7VX550T (Virtex-7).