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ESP32-C6 vs Arduino Uno

RV32IMAC (ESP32-C6) at 160 MHz against ATmega328P at 16 MHz, on real hardware, same C kernels, clocks verified.

ESP32-C6-DevKitM-1

ESP32-C6

RV32IMAC (ESP32-C6)
Family
RISC-V
Board
ESP32-C6-DevKitM-1
Clock
160 MHz
float / double
32-bit / 64-bit
Arduino Uno

Arduino Uno

ATmega328P
Family
AVR
Board
Arduino Uno
Clock
16 MHz
float / double
32-bit / 32-bit
Typical gap
40.5×
ESP32-C6 faster, geometric mean of 30 cells
Biggest win for ESP32-C6
300×
uint32_t modulo
Closest cell
6.29×
double modulo
Clock for clock
4.05×
ESP32-C6 needs fewer cycles per op (10.0× clock gap)

Operation by operation

Every cell

How many times faster ESP32-C6 is than Arduino Uno, operations per second. Blue: ESP32-C6 ahead. Orange: Arduino Uno ahead.

AddSubtractMultiplyDivideModulo
uint8_t 26.2× 12.8 M/s · 490 k/s 28.5× 14 M/s · 490 k/s 31.2× 14 M/s · 448 k/s 56.9× 8.1 M/s · 142 k/s 57.6× 8.2 M/s · 142 k/s
uint16_t 19.8× 10.3 M/s · 522 k/s 19.8× 10.3 M/s · 522 k/s 26.7× 11.1 M/s · 413 k/s 106× 7.35 M/s · 69.5 k/s 107× 7.43 M/s · 69.5 k/s
uint32_t 37.5× 12.8 M/s · 342 k/s 34.7× 11.9 M/s · 342 k/s 88.0× 11.9 M/s · 135 k/s 296× 7.35 M/s · 24.8 k/s 300× 7.43 M/s · 24.8 k/s
uint64_t 110× 8.2 M/s · 74.6 k/s 116× 8.65 M/s · 74.6 k/s 198× 7.1 M/s · 35.9 k/s 66.2× 1.01 M/s · 15.3 k/s 64.9× 986 k/s · 15.2 k/s
float 24.4× 2.4 M/s · 98.3 k/s 23.2× 2.29 M/s · 98.7 k/s 31.0× 2.7 M/s · 87 k/s 28.1× 905 k/s · 32.2 k/s 9.33× 959 k/s · 103 k/s
double 14.2× 1.39 M/s · 98.1 k/s 13.7× 1.35 M/s · 98.6 k/s 19.6× 1.7 M/s · 86.8 k/s 15.3× 492 k/s · 32.2 k/s 6.29× 647 k/s · 103 k/s

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