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ESP32 vs PIC16F17146

Xtensa LX6 (ESP32) at 240 MHz against PIC16F (PIC16F17146) at 32 MHz, on real hardware, same C kernels, clocks verified.

ESP32

ESP32

Xtensa LX6 (ESP32)
Family
Xtensa
Board
ESP32
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
241×
ESP32 faster, geometric mean of 25 cells
Biggest win for ESP32
2,014×
float multiply
Closest cell
38.4×
uint8_t add
Clock for clock
32.2×
ESP32 needs fewer cycles per op (7.50× clock gap)

Operation by operation

Every cell

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

AddSubtractMultiplyDivideModulo
uint8_t 38.4× 11.4 M/s · 298 k/s 41.2× 11.4 M/s · 277 k/s 176× 11.4 M/s · 64.8 k/s 168× 10.4 M/s · 62 k/s 497× 10 M/s · 20.1 k/s
uint16_t 47.0× 11.4 M/s · 244 k/s 47.0× 11.4 M/s · 244 k/s 451× 11.4 M/s · 25.4 k/s 395× 9.32 M/s · 23.6 k/s 328× 8.97 M/s · 27.3 k/s
uint32_t 114× 12 M/s · 105 k/s 135× 12 M/s · 89 k/s 1,213× 12 M/s · 9.9 k/s 1,084× 10 M/s · 9.23 k/s 888× 9.6 M/s · 10.8 k/s
uint64_t not measurednot measurednot measurednot measurednot measured
float 482× 12 M/s · 24.9 k/s 644× 12 M/s · 18.6 k/s 2,014× 12 M/s · 5.95 k/s 690× 3.8 M/s · 5.51 k/s 236× 1.73 M/s · 7.33 k/s
double 119× 2.96 M/s · 24.9 k/s 144× 2.68 M/s · 18.6 k/s 313× 1.86 M/s · 5.95 k/s 83.3× 459 k/s · 5.51 k/s 151× 1.11 M/s · 7.33 k/s

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