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ESP32-C6 vs PIC16F17146

RV32IMAC (ESP32-C6) at 160 MHz against PIC16F (PIC16F17146) at 32 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
PIC16F17146 Curiosity Nano

PIC16F17146

PIC16F (PIC16F17146)
Family
PIC / dsPIC
Board
PIC16F17146 Curiosity Nano
Clock
32 MHz
float / double
32-bit / 32-bit
Typical gap
162×
ESP32-C6 faster, geometric mean of 25 cells
Biggest win for ESP32-C6
1,199×
uint32_t multiply
Closest cell
42.4×
uint16_t subtract
Clock for clock
32.5×
ESP32-C6 needs fewer cycles per op (5.00× clock gap)

Operation by operation

Every cell

How many times faster ESP32-C6 is than PIC16F17146, operations per second. Blue: ESP32-C6 ahead. Orange: PIC16F17146 ahead.

AddSubtractMultiplyDivideModulo
uint8_t 43.1× 12.8 M/s · 298 k/s 50.4× 14 M/s · 277 k/s 215× 14 M/s · 64.8 k/s 131× 8.1 M/s · 62 k/s 408× 8.2 M/s · 20.1 k/s
uint16_t 42.4× 10.3 M/s · 244 k/s 42.4× 10.3 M/s · 244 k/s 435× 11.1 M/s · 25.4 k/s 311× 7.35 M/s · 23.6 k/s 272× 7.43 M/s · 27.3 k/s
uint32_t 122× 12.8 M/s · 105 k/s 133× 11.9 M/s · 89 k/s 1,199× 11.9 M/s · 9.9 k/s 796× 7.35 M/s · 9.23 k/s 688× 7.43 M/s · 10.8 k/s
uint64_t not measurednot measurednot measurednot measurednot measured
float 96.5× 2.4 M/s · 24.9 k/s 123× 2.29 M/s · 18.6 k/s 453× 2.7 M/s · 5.95 k/s 164× 905 k/s · 5.51 k/s 131× 959 k/s · 7.33 k/s
double 56.0× 1.39 M/s · 24.9 k/s 72.7× 1.35 M/s · 18.6 k/s 286× 1.7 M/s · 5.95 k/s 89.3× 492 k/s · 5.51 k/s 88.2× 647 k/s · 7.33 k/s

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