MPF300T vs XC7VX330T
A comparison of the Microchip PolarFire MPF300T and the AMD Virtex-7 XC7VX330T using the data from both vendors' selection guides.
Side-by-side specifications
| MPF300T | XC7VX330T | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor / family | Microchip PolarFire | AMD Virtex-7 |
| Logic (LUT4-equivalent) | 300,000 | 326,400 |
| LUTs as published | 300,000 LUT4 | 204,000 LUT6 |
| Vendor logic figure | 300,000 LE | 326,400 LC |
| DSP | 924 18×18 math blocks (MACC) | 1,120 DSP slices |
| Block RAM | 18.6 Mb | 26.4 Mb |
| Large RAM | — | — |
| Max. user I/O | 512 | 700 |
| Transceivers | 16 × SERDES 12.7 Gb/s | 28 × GTH 13.1 Gb/s |
| Hard PCI Express | Gen2 x4 | Gen3 |
| Hard processor | None | None |
| Process | 28 nm | 28 nm |
| Configuration memory | Non-volatile (SONOS flash) | SRAM |
| Packages | 5 | 2 |
| 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 XC7VX330T has about 9% more logic capacity (326K vs 300K LUT4 equivalents).
They use different logic architectures: the MPF300T is built from LUT4 and the XC7VX330T from LUT6, so the raw LUT counts (300K vs 204K) are not directly comparable.
For arithmetic, the XC7VX330T has 1,120 DSP slices against 924 18×18 math blocks (MACC) on the MPF300T.
The XC7VX330T has more on-chip memory (26.4 Mb vs 18.6 Mb).
Both have transceivers: 16 at up to 12.7 Gb/s on the MPF300T and 28 at up to 13.1 Gb/s on the XC7VX330T.
Configuration memory: non-volatile (sonos flash) on the MPF300T, sram on the XC7VX330T.
The MPF300T is designed with Microchip Libero SoC and the XC7VX330T with AMD Vivado.
Full specifications
See the complete spec sheets with packages and grades: MPF300T (PolarFire) and XC7VX330T (Virtex-7).