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ESP32-S3 vs PIC16F17146

Xtensa LX7 (ESP32-S3) at 240 MHz against PIC16F (PIC16F17146) at 32 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
PIC16F17146 Curiosity Nano

PIC16F17146

PIC16F (PIC16F17146)
Family
PIC / dsPIC
Board
PIC16F17146 Curiosity Nano
Clock
32 MHz
float / double
32-bit / 32-bit
Typical gap
262×
ESP32-S3 faster, geometric mean of 25 cells
Biggest win for ESP32-S3
2,129×
float multiply
Closest cell
42.6×
uint8_t add
Clock for clock
34.9×
ESP32-S3 needs fewer cycles per op (7.50× clock gap)

Operation by operation

Every cell

How many times faster ESP32-S3 is than PIC16F17146, operations per second. Blue: ESP32-S3 ahead. Orange: PIC16F17146 ahead.

AddSubtractMultiplyDivideModulo
uint8_t 42.6× 12.7 M/s · 298 k/s 45.8× 12.7 M/s · 277 k/s 195× 12.7 M/s · 64.8 k/s 185× 11.5 M/s · 62 k/s 545× 10.9 M/s · 20.1 k/s
uint16_t 52.1× 12.7 M/s · 244 k/s 52.1× 12.7 M/s · 244 k/s 500× 12.7 M/s · 25.4 k/s 430× 10.1 M/s · 23.6 k/s 356× 9.72 M/s · 27.3 k/s
uint32_t 127× 13.4 M/s · 105 k/s 151× 13.4 M/s · 89 k/s 1,354× 13.4 M/s · 9.9 k/s 1,187× 11 M/s · 9.23 k/s 969× 10.5 M/s · 10.8 k/s
uint64_t not measurednot measurednot measurednot measurednot measured
float 509× 12.7 M/s · 24.9 k/s 681× 12.7 M/s · 18.6 k/s 2,129× 12.7 M/s · 5.95 k/s 631× 3.48 M/s · 5.51 k/s 266× 1.95 M/s · 7.33 k/s
double 122× 3.04 M/s · 24.9 k/s 150× 2.79 M/s · 18.6 k/s 335× 2 M/s · 5.95 k/s 93.6× 516 k/s · 5.51 k/s 167× 1.22 M/s · 7.33 k/s

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