ESP32-S3 vs PIC18F57Q84
Xtensa LX7 (ESP32-S3) at 240 MHz against PIC18F (PIC18F57Q84) at 64 MHz, on real hardware, same C kernels, clocks verified.
ESP32-S3
Xtensa LX7 (ESP32-S3)
- Family
- Xtensa
- Board
- ESP32-S3 DevKit
- Clock
- 240 MHz
- float / double
- 32-bit / 64-bit
PIC18F57Q84
PIC18F (PIC18F57Q84)
- Family
- PIC / dsPIC
- Board
- PIC18F57Q84 Curiosity Nano
- Clock
- 64 MHz
- float / double
- 32-bit / 32-bit
Typical gap
104×
ESP32-S3 faster, geometric mean of 25 cells
Biggest win for ESP32-S3
571×
uint32_t multiply
Closest cell
23.6×
uint8_t add
Clock for clock
27.8×
ESP32-S3 needs fewer cycles per op (3.75× clock gap)
Operation by operation
Every cell
How many times faster ESP32-S3 is than PIC18F57Q84, operations per second. Blue: ESP32-S3 ahead. Orange: PIC18F57Q84 ahead.
| Add | Subtract | Multiply | Divide | Modulo | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| uint8_t | 23.6× 12.7 M/s · 538 k/s | 25.2× 12.7 M/s · 504 k/s | 24.4× 12.7 M/s · 520 k/s | 84.8× 11.5 M/s · 135 k/s | 103× 10.9 M/s · 106 k/s |
| uint16_t | 38.7× 12.7 M/s · 328 k/s | 38.7× 12.7 M/s · 328 k/s | 44.2× 12.7 M/s · 287 k/s | 163× 10.1 M/s · 62.1 k/s | 138× 9.72 M/s · 70.6 k/s |
| uint32_t | 55.9× 13.4 M/s · 240 k/s | 55.9× 13.4 M/s · 240 k/s | 571× 13.4 M/s · 23.5 k/s | 447× 11 M/s · 24.5 k/s | 366× 10.5 M/s · 28.6 k/s |
| uint64_t | not measured | not measured | not measured | not measured | not measured |
| float | 339× 12.7 M/s · 37.4 k/s | 400× 12.7 M/s · 31.7 k/s | 562× 12.7 M/s · 22.6 k/s | 341× 3.48 M/s · 10.2 k/s | 98.5× 1.95 M/s · 19.8 k/s |
| double | 81.2× 3.04 M/s · 37.4 k/s | 88.0× 2.79 M/s · 31.7 k/s | 88.6× 2 M/s · 22.6 k/s | 50.6× 516 k/s · 10.2 k/s | 61.8× 1.22 M/s · 19.8 k/s |