SX 850 vs XCZU17EG
A comparison of the Altera Stratix 10 GX/SX SX 850 and the AMD Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC XCZU17EG using the data from both vendors' selection guides.
Side-by-side specifications
| SX 850 | XCZU17EG | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor / family | Altera Stratix 10 GX/SX | AMD Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC |
| Logic (LUT4-equivalent) | 569,920 | 676,800 |
| LUTs as published | 284,960 ALMs | 423,000 LUT6 |
| Vendor logic figure | 841,000 LE | 926,000 SLC |
| DSP | 2,016 variable-precision DSP blocks | 1,590 DSP slices |
| Block RAM | 68 Mb | 28 Mb |
| Large RAM | — | 28.7 Mb |
| Max. user I/O | 688 | 668 |
| Transceivers | 32 × XCVR 28.3 Gb/s, 16 × XCVR 17.4 Gb/s | 44 × GTH 16.3 Gb/s, 28 × GTY 32.75 Gb/s |
| Hard PCI Express | Gen3 x16 | Gen3 x16 |
| Hard processor | 4× Arm Cortex-A53 | 4× Arm Cortex-A53 |
| Process | 14 nm | 16 nm |
| Configuration memory | SRAM | SRAM |
| Packages | 1 | 4 |
| Design tool | Altera Quartus Prime | AMD Vivado |
Highlighted values are higher. Logic is compared in LUT4 equivalents; see how FPGA vendors count logic.
Key differences
The XCZU17EG has about 19% more logic capacity (677K vs 570K LUT4 equivalents).
They use different logic architectures: the SX 850 is built from ALMs and the XCZU17EG from LUT6, so the raw LUT counts (285K vs 423K) are not directly comparable.
For arithmetic, the SX 850 has 2,016 variable-precision DSP blocks against 1,590 DSP slices on the XCZU17EG.
The SX 850 has more on-chip memory (68 Mb vs 56.7 Mb).
Both have transceivers: 48 at up to 28.3 Gb/s on the SX 850 and 72 at up to 32.75 Gb/s on the XCZU17EG.
The SX 850 is designed with Altera Quartus Prime and the XCZU17EG with AMD Vivado.
Full specifications
See the complete spec sheets with packages and grades: SX 850 (Stratix 10 GX/SX) and XCZU17EG (Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC).