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PIC18F57Q84 vs MSP430FR2433

PIC18F (PIC18F57Q84) at 64 MHz against MSP430FRx (MSP430FR2433) at 15.99 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
MSP-EXP430FR2433 LaunchPad

MSP430FR2433

MSP430FRx (MSP430FR2433)
Family
MSP430
Board
MSP-EXP430FR2433 LaunchPad
Clock
15.99 MHz
float / double
32-bit / 64-bit
Typical gap
1.36×
PIC18F57Q84 faster, geometric mean of 25 cells
Biggest win for PIC18F57Q84
23.9×
double multiply
Biggest win for MSP430FR2433
8.93×
uint32_t multiply
Clock for clock
2.93×
MSP430FR2433 needs fewer cycles per op (4.00× clock gap)

Operation by operation

Every cell

How many times faster PIC18F57Q84 is than MSP430FR2433, operations per second. Blue: PIC18F57Q84 ahead. Orange: MSP430FR2433 ahead.

AddSubtractMultiplyDivideModulo
uint8_t 1/1.15× 538 k/s · 621 k/s 1/1.19× 504 k/s · 598 k/s 1.80× 520 k/s · 290 k/s 1.57× 135 k/s · 86.4 k/s 1.23× 106 k/s · 86 k/s
uint16_t 1/1.97× 328 k/s · 646 k/s 1/1.89× 328 k/s · 622 k/s 1/1.08× 287 k/s · 309 k/s 1/1.08× 62.1 k/s · 67.3 k/s 1.05× 70.6 k/s · 67 k/s
uint32_t 1/1.54× 240 k/s · 370 k/s 1/1.66× 240 k/s · 397 k/s 1/8.93× 23.5 k/s · 210 k/s 1.06× 24.5 k/s · 23.1 k/s 1.24× 28.6 k/s · 23 k/s
uint64_t not measurednot measurednot measurednot measurednot measured
float 2.22× 37.4 k/s · 16.8 k/s 1.95× 31.7 k/s · 16.2 k/s 3.85× 22.6 k/s · 5.85 k/s 1/1.14× 10.2 k/s · 11.7 k/s 1/1.07× 19.8 k/s · 21.3 k/s
double 4.57× 37.4 k/s · 8.18 k/s 4.06× 31.7 k/s · 7.8 k/s 23.9× 22.6 k/s · 942 /s 4.87× 10.2 k/s · 2.1 k/s 2.25× 19.8 k/s · 8.79 k/s

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