MPF500T vs XC7VX330T
A comparison of the Microchip PolarFire MPF500T and the AMD Virtex-7 XC7VX330T using the data from both vendors' selection guides.
Side-by-side specifications
| MPF500T | XC7VX330T | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor / family | Microchip PolarFire | AMD Virtex-7 |
| Logic (LUT4-equivalent) | 481,000 | 326,400 |
| LUTs as published | 481,000 LUT4 | 204,000 LUT6 |
| Vendor logic figure | 481,000 LE | 326,400 LC |
| DSP | 1,480 18×18 math blocks (MACC) | 1,120 DSP slices |
| Block RAM | 29.7 Mb | 26.4 Mb |
| Large RAM | — | — |
| Max. user I/O | 584 | 700 |
| Transceivers | 24 × 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 | 2 | 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 MPF500T has about 47% more logic capacity (481K vs 326K LUT4 equivalents).
They use different logic architectures: the MPF500T is built from LUT4 and the XC7VX330T from LUT6, so the raw LUT counts (481K vs 204K) are not directly comparable.
For arithmetic, the MPF500T has 1,480 18×18 math blocks (MACC) against 1,120 DSP slices on the XC7VX330T.
The MPF500T has more on-chip memory (29.7 Mb vs 26.4 Mb).
Both have transceivers: 24 at up to 12.7 Gb/s on the MPF500T and 28 at up to 13.1 Gb/s on the XC7VX330T.
Configuration memory: non-volatile (sonos flash) on the MPF500T, sram on the XC7VX330T.
The MPF500T is designed with Microchip Libero SoC and the XC7VX330T with AMD Vivado.
Full specifications
See the complete spec sheets with packages and grades: MPF500T (PolarFire) and XC7VX330T (Virtex-7).