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ESP32-S3 vs ESP32

Xtensa LX7 (ESP32-S3) at 240 MHz against Xtensa LX6 (ESP32) at 240 MHz, on real hardware, same C kernels, clocks verified.

ESP32-S3 DevKit

ESP32-S3

Xtensa LX7 (ESP32-S3)
Family
Xtensa
Board
ESP32-S3 DevKit
Clock
240 MHz
float / double
32-bit / 64-bit
ESP32

ESP32

Xtensa LX6 (ESP32)
Family
Xtensa
Board
ESP32
Clock
240 MHz
float / double
32-bit / 64-bit
Typical gap
1.08×
ESP32-S3 faster, geometric mean of 30 cells
Biggest win for ESP32-S3
1.14×
uint64_t multiply
Biggest win for ESP32
1.09×
float divide
Clock for clock
1.08×
ESP32-S3 needs fewer cycles per op (1.00× clock gap)

Operation by operation

Every cell

How many times faster ESP32-S3 is than ESP32, operations per second. Blue: ESP32-S3 ahead. Orange: ESP32 ahead.

AddSubtractMultiplyDivideModulo
uint8_t 1.11× 12.7 M/s · 11.4 M/s 1.11× 12.7 M/s · 11.4 M/s 1.11× 12.7 M/s · 11.4 M/s 1.10× 11.5 M/s · 10.4 M/s 1.09× 10.9 M/s · 10 M/s
uint16_t 1.11× 12.7 M/s · 11.4 M/s 1.11× 12.7 M/s · 11.4 M/s 1.11× 12.7 M/s · 11.4 M/s 1.09× 10.1 M/s · 9.32 M/s 1.08× 9.72 M/s · 8.97 M/s
uint32_t 1.12× 13.4 M/s · 12 M/s 1.12× 13.4 M/s · 12 M/s 1.12× 13.4 M/s · 12 M/s 1.10× 11 M/s · 10 M/s 1.09× 10.5 M/s · 9.6 M/s
uint64_t 1.12× 7.87 M/s · 7.05 M/s 1.12× 7.81 M/s · 6.94 M/s 1.14× 5.45 M/s · 4.79 M/s 1.03× 1.8 M/s · 1.75 M/s 1.03× 1.74 M/s · 1.69 M/s
float 1.06× 12.7 M/s · 12 M/s 1.06× 12.7 M/s · 12 M/s 1.06× 12.7 M/s · 12 M/s 1/1.09× 3.48 M/s · 3.8 M/s 1.13× 1.95 M/s · 1.73 M/s
double 1.03× 3.04 M/s · 2.96 M/s 1.04× 2.79 M/s · 2.68 M/s 1.07× 2 M/s · 1.86 M/s 1.12× 516 k/s · 459 k/s 1.11× 1.22 M/s · 1.11 M/s

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