TX 850 vs XCZU17EG
A comparison of the Altera Stratix 10 TX TX 850 and the AMD Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC XCZU17EG using the data from both vendors' selection guides.
Side-by-side specifications
| TX 850 | XCZU17EG | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor / family | Altera Stratix 10 TX | AMD Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC |
| LUTs as published | 284,960 ALMs | 423,000 LUT6 |
| LUT type | adaptive logic module: fracturable 8-input LUT (one 6-input or two independent 4-input functions) | 6-input look-up table, fracturable into two LUT5 with shared inputs |
| LUT4 equivalent (approx.) | ≈569,920 | ≈676,800 |
| CoreScore (SERV cores) | — | — |
| 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 | 440 | 668 |
| Transceivers | 48 × GXE 57.8 Gb/s, 16 × GXT 28.3 Gb/s, 8 × GX 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 (optional) | 4× Arm Cortex-A53 |
| Process | 14 nm | 16 nm |
| Configuration memory | SRAM | SRAM |
| Packages | 2 | 4 |
| Design tool | Altera Quartus Prime | 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 XCZU17EG has about 19% more logic capacity (677K vs 570K LUT4 equivalents).
They use different logic architectures: the TX 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 TX 850 has 2,016 variable-precision DSP blocks against 1,590 DSP slices on the XCZU17EG.
The TX 850 has more on-chip memory (68 Mb vs 56.7 Mb).
Both have transceivers: 72 at up to 57.8 Gb/s on the TX 850 and 72 at up to 32.75 Gb/s on the XCZU17EG.
The TX 850 is designed with Altera Quartus Prime and the XCZU17EG with AMD Vivado.
Full specifications
See the complete spec sheets with packages and grades: TX 850 (Stratix 10 TX) and XCZU17EG (Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC).