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Feather M4 vs XIAO MG24

Cortex-M4F (SAMD51) at 120 MHz against Cortex-M33 (EFR32MG24) at 39 MHz, on real hardware, same C kernels, clocks verified.

Feather M4 Express

Feather M4

Cortex-M4F (SAMD51)
Family
Arm Cortex-M
Board
Feather M4 Express
Clock
120 MHz
float / double
32-bit / 64-bit
XIAO MG24 Sense

XIAO MG24

Cortex-M33 (EFR32MG24)
Family
Arm Cortex-M
Board
XIAO MG24 Sense
Clock
39 MHz
float / double
32-bit / 64-bit
Typical gap
3.04×
Feather M4 faster, geometric mean of 30 cells
Biggest win for Feather M4
3.56×
uint8_t multiply
Closest cell
2.58×
double modulo
Clock for clock
1.01×
XIAO MG24 needs fewer cycles per op (3.08× clock gap)

Operation by operation

Every cell

How many times faster Feather M4 is than XIAO MG24, operations per second. Blue: Feather M4 ahead. Orange: XIAO MG24 ahead.

AddSubtractMultiplyDivideModulo
uint8_t 3.31× 8.98 M/s · 2.71 M/s 3.31× 8.98 M/s · 2.71 M/s 3.56× 8.98 M/s · 2.52 M/s 2.87× 7.01 M/s · 2.44 M/s 3.32× 6.36 M/s · 1.92 M/s
uint16_t 3.05× 8.98 M/s · 2.94 M/s 3.07× 8.98 M/s · 2.93 M/s 3.07× 8.98 M/s · 2.93 M/s 2.93× 6.12 M/s · 2.09 M/s 3.03× 5.36 M/s · 1.77 M/s
uint32_t 3.04× 9.71 M/s · 3.19 M/s 3.04× 9.71 M/s · 3.19 M/s 3.31× 9.71 M/s · 2.93 M/s 2.96× 6.53 M/s · 2.21 M/s 3.15× 6.19 M/s · 1.96 M/s
uint64_t 2.62× 6.19 M/s · 2.36 M/s 2.62× 6.19 M/s · 2.36 M/s 2.85× 5.61 M/s · 1.97 M/s 3.11× 885 k/s · 285 k/s 3.11× 885 k/s · 285 k/s
float 2.83× 8.98 M/s · 3.18 M/s 2.83× 8.98 M/s · 3.18 M/s 2.82× 8.98 M/s · 3.18 M/s 3.06× 4.73 M/s · 1.54 M/s 2.72× 866 k/s · 318 k/s
double 3.24× 1.2 M/s · 370 k/s 3.23× 1.19 M/s · 368 k/s 3.38× 1.7 M/s · 503 k/s 3.33× 1.26 M/s · 379 k/s 2.58× 425 k/s · 165 k/s

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