MPF500T vs XC7K410T
A comparison of the Microchip PolarFire MPF500T and the AMD Kintex-7 XC7K410T using the data from both vendors' selection guides.
Side-by-side specifications
| MPF500T | XC7K410T | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor / family | Microchip PolarFire | AMD Kintex-7 |
| Logic (LUT4-equivalent) | 481,000 | 406,720 |
| LUTs as published | 481,000 LUT4 | 254,200 LUT6 |
| Vendor logic figure | 481,000 LE | 406,720 LC |
| DSP | 1,480 18×18 math blocks (MACC) | 1,540 DSP slices |
| Block RAM | 29.7 Mb | 27.9 Mb |
| Large RAM | — | — |
| Max. user I/O | 584 | 500 |
| Transceivers | 24 × 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 | 2 | 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 MPF500T has about 18% more logic capacity (481K vs 407K LUT4 equivalents).
They use different logic architectures: the MPF500T is built from LUT4 and the XC7K410T from LUT6, so the raw LUT counts (481K vs 254K) are not directly comparable.
For arithmetic, the XC7K410T has 1,540 DSP slices against 1,480 18×18 math blocks (MACC) on the MPF500T.
Both have transceivers: 24 at up to 12.7 Gb/s on the MPF500T and 16 at up to 12.5 Gb/s on the XC7K410T.
Configuration memory: non-volatile (sonos flash) on the MPF500T, sram on the XC7K410T.
The MPF500T is designed with Microchip Libero SoC and the XC7K410T with AMD Vivado.
Full specifications
See the complete spec sheets with packages and grades: MPF500T (PolarFire) and XC7K410T (Kintex-7).