XCKU15P vs XCVU160
A comparison of the AMD Kintex UltraScale+ XCKU15P and the AMD Virtex UltraScale XCVU160 using the data from both vendors' selection guides.
Side-by-side specifications
| XCKU15P | XCVU160 | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor / family | AMD Kintex UltraScale+ | AMD Virtex UltraScale |
| LUTs as published | 523,000 LUT6 | 926,400 LUT6 |
| LUT type | 6-input look-up table, fracturable into two LUT5 with shared inputs | 6-input look-up table, fracturable into two LUT5 with shared inputs |
| LUT4 equivalent (approx.) | ≈836,800 | ≈1,482,240 |
| CoreScore (SERV cores) | — | — |
| Vendor logic figure | 1,143,000 SLC | 2,027,000 SLC |
| DSP | 1,968 DSP slices | 1,560 DSP slices |
| Block RAM | 34.6 Mb | 115.2 Mb |
| Large RAM | 36 Mb | — |
| Max. user I/O | 668 | 702 |
| Transceivers | 44 × GTH 16.3 Gb/s, 32 × GTY 32.75 Gb/s | 52 × GTH 16.3 Gb/s, 52 × GTY 30.5 Gb/s |
| Hard PCI Express | Gen3 x16 | Gen3 |
| Hard processor | None | None |
| Process | 16 nm | 20 nm |
| Configuration memory | SRAM | SRAM |
| Packages | 4 | 2 |
| Design tool | AMD Vivado | 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 XCVU160 has about 77% more logic capacity (1482K vs 837K LUT4 equivalents).
For arithmetic, the XCKU15P has 1,968 DSP slices against 1,560 DSP slices on the XCVU160.
The XCVU160 has more on-chip memory (115.2 Mb vs 70.6 Mb).
Both have transceivers: 76 at up to 32.75 Gb/s on the XCKU15P and 104 at up to 30.5 Gb/s on the XCVU160.
The XCKU15P is designed with AMD Vivado and the XCVU160 with AMD Vivado.
Full specifications
See the complete spec sheets with packages and grades: XCKU15P (Kintex UltraScale+) and XCVU160 (Virtex UltraScale).