RTPF500ZT vs XC7V585T
A comparison of the Microchip RT PolarFire RTPF500ZT and the AMD Virtex-7 XC7V585T using the data from both vendors' selection guides.
Side-by-side specifications
| RTPF500ZT | XC7V585T | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor / family | Microchip RT PolarFire | AMD Virtex-7 |
| LUTs as published | 481,000 LUT4 | 364,200 LUT6 |
| LUT type | 4-input look-up table | 6-input look-up table, fracturable into two LUT5 with shared inputs |
| LUT4 equivalent (approx.) | ≈481,000 | ≈582,720 |
| CoreScore (SERV cores) | — | — |
| Vendor logic figure | 481,000 LE | 582,720 LC |
| DSP | 1,480 18×18 math blocks | 1,260 DSP slices |
| Block RAM | 29.7 Mb | 27.9 Mb |
| Large RAM | — | — |
| Max. user I/O | 632 | 850 |
| Transceivers | 24 × SERDES 12.7 Gb/s | 36 × 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 | 3 | 2 |
| Design tool | Microchip Libero SoC | AMD Vivado |
Highlighted values are higher. LUT counts are shown as published; the LUT4 equivalent is an approximation to compare different LUT types, see how FPGA vendors count logic. Add up to two more devices to this comparison.
Key differences
The XC7V585T has about 21% more logic capacity (583K vs 481K LUT4 equivalents).
They use different logic architectures: the RTPF500ZT is built from LUT4 and the XC7V585T from LUT6, so the raw LUT counts (481K vs 364K) are not directly comparable.
For arithmetic, the RTPF500ZT has 1,480 18×18 math blocks against 1,260 DSP slices on the XC7V585T.
Both have transceivers: 24 at up to 12.7 Gb/s on the RTPF500ZT and 36 at up to 12.5 Gb/s on the XC7V585T.
Configuration memory: non-volatile (sonos flash) on the RTPF500ZT, sram on the XC7V585T.
The RTPF500ZT is designed with Microchip Libero SoC and the XC7V585T with AMD Vivado.
Full specifications
See the complete spec sheets with packages and grades: RTPF500ZT (RT PolarFire) and XC7V585T (Virtex-7).