Nios® II Performance Benchmarks

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Date 3/27/2023
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2. Nios® II Performance Benchmarks

Table 2.  fmax for Nios® II Processor System (MHz)
Device Family Device OPN Nios® II/f Nios® II/e Results are generated using
Intel Agilex® 7 AGFA014R24A2E2VR0 400 410 Intel® Quartus® Prime Pro Edition software version 20.1
Intel® Stratix® 10 1SG250LN3F43I2LG 300 320 Intel® Quartus® Prime Pro Edition software version 20.1
Stratix® V 5SGXEA7N2F45C1 350 410 Intel® Quartus® Prime Standard Edition software version 19.1
Stratix® IV EP4S100G5H40I1 240 280 Intel® Quartus® Prime Standard Edition software version 19.1
Intel® Arria® 10 10AX115U3F45I2LG 290 340 Intel® Quartus® Prime Pro Edition software version 20.1
Arria® V GZ 5AGZME7K2F40C3 280 360 Intel® Quartus® Prime Standard Edition software version 19.1
Arria® V 5AGXFB5K4F40I3 200 260 Intel® Quartus® Prime Standard Edition software version 19.1
Intel® Cyclone® 10 GX 10CX220YF780E5G 280 330 Intel® Quartus® Prime Pro Edition software version 20.1
Intel® Cyclone® 10 LP 10CL120YF780I7G 140 160 Intel® Quartus® Prime Standard Edition software version 19.1
Cyclone® V 5CGXFC7D6F31C6 170 210 Intel® Quartus® Prime Standard Edition software version 19.1
Cyclone® IV EP4CGX30CF19C6 160 170 Intel® Quartus® Prime Standard Edition software version 19.1
Intel® MAX® 10 10M50DAF484C6GES 160 160 Intel® Quartus® Prime Standard Edition software version 19.1
Table 3.  Typical Logic Size for Nios® II Processor Cores and Peripherals
Device Family Processor Core / Peripheral Results are generated using
Nios® II/f Nios® II/e Nios® II JTAG debug module Avalon UART JTAG UART SDRAM Controller4 Timer
Intel Agilex® 7 1002 596 149 57 71 5999 77 Intel® Quartus® Prime Pro Edition software version 20.1
Intel® Stratix® 10 (ALM) 1006 414 148 58 70 4429 76 Intel® Quartus® Prime Pro Edition software version 20.1
Stratix® V (ALM) 697 296 129 62 56 2635 68 Intel® Quartus® Prime Standard Edition software version 19.1
Stratix® IV (ALUT) 1073 527 169 95 112 3809 92 Intel® Quartus® Prime Standard Edition software version 19.1
Intel® Arria® 10 (ALM) 803 322 114 55 60 3973 60 Intel® Quartus® Prime Pro Edition software version 20.1
Arria® V GZ (ALM) 706 290 125 55 56 2632 54 Intel® Quartus® Prime Standard Edition software version 19.1
Arria® V (ALM) 835 310 126 56 56 2470 55 Intel® Quartus® Prime Standard Edition software version 19.1
Intel® Cyclone® 10 GX (ALM) 847 346 116 56 60 2291 55 Intel® Quartus® Prime Pro Edition software version 20.1
Intel® Cyclone® 10 LP (LE) 2326 838 464 141 163 435 148 Intel® Quartus® Prime Standard Edition software version 19.1
Cyclone® V (ALM) 848 305 127 56 57 2473 56 Intel® Quartus® Prime Standard Edition software version 19.1
Cyclone® IV GX (ALUT) 2221 772 352 143 160 424 138 Intel® Quartus® Prime Standard Edition software version 19.1
Intel® MAX® 10 (LE) 2211 790 364 136 157 4671 139 Intel® Quartus® Prime Standard Edition software version 19.1
Table 4.   Nios® II Processor Architecture Performance
Performance Metric Nios® II/f Nios® II/e
DMIPS/MHz Ratio 0.753 0.107
CoreMark 229.148 19.234
4 The RAM controller for the device is based on DDR3 SDRAM Controller with UniPHY. For Intel® Cyclone® 10, Intel® Arria® 10, Intel® Stratix® 10, and Intel Agilex® 7 devices, the RAM controller is based on the respective device IP.