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PIC18F57Q84 vs ESP32-S3

PIC18F (PIC18F57Q84) at 64 MHz against Xtensa LX7 (ESP32-S3) at 240 MHz, on real hardware, same C kernels, clocks verified.

PIC18F57Q84 Curiosity Nano

PIC18F57Q84

PIC18F (PIC18F57Q84)
Family
PIC / dsPIC
Board
PIC18F57Q84 Curiosity Nano
Clock
64 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
104×
ESP32-S3 faster, geometric mean of 25 cells
Biggest win for PIC18F57Q84
0.04×
uint8_t add
Biggest win for ESP32-S3
571×
uint32_t multiply
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 PIC18F57Q84 is than ESP32-S3, operations per second. Blue: PIC18F57Q84 ahead. Orange: ESP32-S3 ahead.

AddSubtractMultiplyDivideModulo
uint8_t 1/23.6× 538 k/s · 12.7 M/s 1/25.2× 504 k/s · 12.7 M/s 1/24.4× 520 k/s · 12.7 M/s 1/84.8× 135 k/s · 11.5 M/s 1/103× 106 k/s · 10.9 M/s
uint16_t 1/38.7× 328 k/s · 12.7 M/s 1/38.7× 328 k/s · 12.7 M/s 1/44.2× 287 k/s · 12.7 M/s 1/163× 62.1 k/s · 10.1 M/s 1/138× 70.6 k/s · 9.72 M/s
uint32_t 1/55.9× 240 k/s · 13.4 M/s 1/55.9× 240 k/s · 13.4 M/s 1/571× 23.5 k/s · 13.4 M/s 1/447× 24.5 k/s · 11 M/s 1/366× 28.6 k/s · 10.5 M/s
uint64_t not measurednot measurednot measurednot measurednot measured
float 1/339× 37.4 k/s · 12.7 M/s 1/400× 31.7 k/s · 12.7 M/s 1/562× 22.6 k/s · 12.7 M/s 1/341× 10.2 k/s · 3.48 M/s 1/98.5× 19.8 k/s · 1.95 M/s
double 1/81.2× 37.4 k/s · 3.04 M/s 1/88.0× 31.7 k/s · 2.79 M/s 1/88.6× 22.6 k/s · 2 M/s 1/50.6× 10.2 k/s · 516 k/s 1/61.8× 19.8 k/s · 1.22 M/s

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