MPF300T vs XC7K325T
A comparison of the Microchip PolarFire MPF300T and the AMD Kintex-7 XC7K325T using the data from both vendors' selection guides.
Side-by-side specifications
| MPF300T | XC7K325T | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor / family | Microchip PolarFire | AMD Kintex-7 |
| Logic (LUT4-equivalent) | 300,000 | 326,080 |
| LUTs as published | 300,000 LUT4 | 203,800 LUT6 |
| Vendor logic figure | 300,000 LE | 326,080 LC |
| DSP | 924 18×18 math blocks (MACC) | 840 DSP slices |
| Block RAM | 18.6 Mb | 15.6 Mb |
| Large RAM | — | — |
| Max. user I/O | 512 | 500 |
| Transceivers | 16 × SERDES 12.7 Gb/s | 16 × GTX 12.5 Gb/s |
| Hard PCI Express | Gen2 x4 | Gen2 |
| Hard processor | None | None |
| Process | 28 nm | 28 nm |
| Configuration memory | Non-volatile (SONOS flash) | SRAM |
| Packages | 5 | 4 |
| Design tool | Microchip Libero SoC | AMD Vivado |
Highlighted values are higher. Logic is compared in LUT4 equivalents; see how FPGA vendors count logic.
Key differences
The XC7K325T has about 9% more logic capacity (326K vs 300K LUT4 equivalents).
They use different logic architectures: the MPF300T is built from LUT4 and the XC7K325T from LUT6, so the raw LUT counts (300K vs 204K) are not directly comparable.
For arithmetic, the MPF300T has 924 18×18 math blocks (MACC) against 840 DSP slices on the XC7K325T.
The MPF300T has more on-chip memory (18.6 Mb vs 15.6 Mb).
Both have transceivers: 16 at up to 12.7 Gb/s on the MPF300T and 16 at up to 12.5 Gb/s on the XC7K325T.
Configuration memory: non-volatile (sonos flash) on the MPF300T, sram on the XC7K325T.
The MPF300T is designed with Microchip Libero SoC and the XC7K325T with AMD Vivado.
Full specifications
See the complete spec sheets with packages and grades: MPF300T (PolarFire) and XC7K325T (Kintex-7).