Cyclone V vs Kintex 7 (Resources and Performance)

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away from the smoke of an Altera/Xilinx battle I have achieved 491MHz speed in part of a design in kintex 7, this should enter records.

generally Xilinx devices seem faster when comparing like by like but certainly need a lot of floor planning.

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Can you comment on the speed grade for the Kintex 7 and if you had actually tested it on a board? I tried a very simple and pipelined design and the best reports timing reports from ISE were around 425 MHz (speed grade -3). For the same design on the Cyclone V (speed grade -6), I got 320 MHz. This design is only about 10% utilization. In a larger design utilizing about 70%, Kintex 7 gets 295 MHz whereas the Cyclone V gets 199 MHz.