FPGA & adaptive SoC databook · online editionRev. 2026.10

XCZU25DR vs XCZU9CG

A comparison of the AMD Zynq UltraScale+ RFSoC XCZU25DR and the AMD Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC XCZU9CG using the data from both vendors' selection guides.

Side-by-side specifications

XCZU25DRXCZU9CG
Vendor / familyAMD Zynq UltraScale+ RFSoCAMD Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC
LUTs as published310,000 LUT6274,000 LUT6
LUT type6-input look-up table, fracturable into two LUT5 with shared inputs6-input look-up table, fracturable into two LUT5 with shared inputs
LUT4 equivalent (approx.)≈496,000≈438,400
CoreScore (SERV cores)——
Vendor logic figure678,000 SLC600,000 SLC
DSP3,145 DSP slices2,520 DSP slices
Block RAM27.8 Mb32.1 Mb
Large RAM13.5 Mb—
Max. user I/O347328
Transceivers8 × GTY 28.21 Gb/s24 × GTH 16.3 Gb/s
Hard PCI ExpressGen3 x16None
Hard processor4× Arm Cortex-A532× Arm Cortex-A53
Process16 nm16 nm
Configuration memorySRAMSRAM
Packages22
Design toolAMD VivadoAMD 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 XCZU25DR has about 13% more logic capacity (496K vs 438K LUT4 equivalents).

For arithmetic, the XCZU25DR has 3,145 DSP slices against 2,520 DSP slices on the XCZU9CG.

The XCZU25DR has more on-chip memory (41.3 Mb vs 32.1 Mb).

Both have transceivers: 8 at up to 28.21 Gb/s on the XCZU25DR and 24 at up to 16.3 Gb/s on the XCZU9CG.

The XCZU25DR is designed with AMD Vivado and the XCZU9CG with AMD Vivado.

Full specifications

See the complete spec sheets with packages and grades: XCZU25DR (Zynq UltraScale+ RFSoC) and XCZU9CG (Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC).