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ESP32-S3 vs MSP430FR2433

Xtensa LX7 (ESP32-S3) at 240 MHz against MSP430FRx (MSP430FR2433) at 15.99 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
MSP-EXP430FR2433 LaunchPad

MSP430FR2433

MSP430FRx (MSP430FR2433)
Family
MSP430
Board
MSP-EXP430FR2433 LaunchPad
Clock
15.99 MHz
float / double
32-bit / 64-bit
Typical gap
138×
ESP32-S3 faster, geometric mean of 30 cells
Biggest win for ESP32-S3
2,165×
float multiply
Closest cell
19.7×
uint16_t add
Clock for clock
9.22×
ESP32-S3 needs fewer cycles per op (15.0× clock gap)

Operation by operation

Every cell

How many times faster ESP32-S3 is than MSP430FR2433, operations per second. Blue: ESP32-S3 ahead. Orange: MSP430FR2433 ahead.

AddSubtractMultiplyDivideModulo
uint8_t 20.5× 12.7 M/s · 621 k/s 21.2× 12.7 M/s · 598 k/s 43.8× 12.7 M/s · 290 k/s 133× 11.5 M/s · 86.4 k/s 127× 10.9 M/s · 86 k/s
uint16_t 19.7× 12.7 M/s · 646 k/s 20.4× 12.7 M/s · 622 k/s 41.1× 12.7 M/s · 309 k/s 151× 10.1 M/s · 67.3 k/s 145× 9.72 M/s · 67 k/s
uint32_t 36.3× 13.4 M/s · 370 k/s 33.7× 13.4 M/s · 397 k/s 64.0× 13.4 M/s · 210 k/s 474× 11 M/s · 23.1 k/s 455× 10.5 M/s · 23 k/s
uint64_t 52.3× 7.87 M/s · 151 k/s 56.9× 7.81 M/s · 137 k/s 57.8× 5.45 M/s · 94.3 k/s 443× 1.8 M/s · 4.06 k/s 342× 1.74 M/s · 5.1 k/s
float 753× 12.7 M/s · 16.8 k/s 781× 12.7 M/s · 16.2 k/s 2,165× 12.7 M/s · 5.85 k/s 298× 3.48 M/s · 11.7 k/s 91.7× 1.95 M/s · 21.3 k/s
double 371× 3.04 M/s · 8.18 k/s 358× 2.79 M/s · 7.8 k/s 2,120× 2 M/s · 942 /s 246× 516 k/s · 2.1 k/s 139× 1.22 M/s · 8.79 k/s

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