GX 850 vs XCKU13P
A comparison of the Altera Stratix 10 GX/SX GX 850 and the AMD Kintex UltraScale+ XCKU13P using the data from both vendors' selection guides.
Side-by-side specifications
| GX 850 | XCKU13P | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor / family | Altera Stratix 10 GX/SX | AMD Kintex UltraScale+ |
| Logic (LUT4-equivalent) | 569,920 | 545,600 |
| LUTs as published | 284,960 ALMs | 341,000 LUT6 |
| Vendor logic figure | 841,000 LE | 747,000 SLC |
| DSP | 2,016 variable-precision DSP blocks | 3,528 DSP slices |
| Block RAM | 68 Mb | 26.2 Mb |
| Large RAM | — | 31.5 Mb |
| Max. user I/O | 688 | 304 |
| Transceivers | 32 × XCVR 28.3 Gb/s, 16 × XCVR 17.4 Gb/s | 28 × GTH 16.3 Gb/s |
| Hard PCI Express | Gen3 x16 | None |
| Hard processor | None | None |
| Process | 14 nm | 16 nm |
| Configuration memory | SRAM | SRAM |
| Packages | 1 | 1 |
| 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 546K LUT4 equivalents.
They use different logic architectures: the GX 850 is built from ALMs and the XCKU13P from LUT6, so the raw LUT counts (285K vs 341K) are not directly comparable.
For arithmetic, the XCKU13P has 3,528 DSP slices against 2,016 variable-precision DSP blocks on the GX 850.
The GX 850 has more on-chip memory (68 Mb vs 57.7 Mb).
Both have transceivers: 48 at up to 28.3 Gb/s on the GX 850 and 28 at up to 16.3 Gb/s on the XCKU13P.
The GX 850 is designed with Altera Quartus Prime and the XCKU13P with AMD Vivado.
Full specifications
See the complete spec sheets with packages and grades: GX 850 (Stratix 10 GX/SX) and XCKU13P (Kintex UltraScale+).