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PIC16F17146 vs ESP32-S3

PIC16F (PIC16F17146) at 32 MHz against Xtensa LX7 (ESP32-S3) at 240 MHz, on real hardware, same C kernels, clocks verified.

PIC16F17146 Curiosity Nano

PIC16F17146

PIC16F (PIC16F17146)
Family
PIC / dsPIC
Board
PIC16F17146 Curiosity Nano
Clock
32 MHz
float / double
32-bit / 32-bit
ESP32-S3 DevKit

ESP32-S3

Xtensa LX7 (ESP32-S3)
Family
Xtensa
Board
ESP32-S3 DevKit
Clock
240 MHz
float / double
32-bit / 64-bit
Typical gap
262×
ESP32-S3 faster, geometric mean of 25 cells
Biggest win for PIC16F17146
0.02×
uint8_t add
Biggest win for ESP32-S3
2,129×
float multiply
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 PIC16F17146 is than ESP32-S3, operations per second. Blue: PIC16F17146 ahead. Orange: ESP32-S3 ahead.

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

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