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PIC24FJ64GU205 vs ESP32

PIC24F (PIC24FJ64GU205) at 32 MHz against Xtensa LX6 (ESP32) at 240 MHz, on real hardware, same C kernels, clocks verified.

PIC24FJ64GU205 Curiosity Nano

PIC24FJ64GU205

PIC24F (PIC24FJ64GU205)
Family
PIC / dsPIC
Board
PIC24FJ64GU205 Curiosity Nano
Clock
32 MHz
float / double
32-bit / 32-bit
ESP32

ESP32

Xtensa LX6 (ESP32)
Family
Xtensa
Board
ESP32
Clock
240 MHz
float / double
32-bit / 64-bit
Typical gap
27.5×
ESP32 faster, geometric mean of 30 cells
Biggest win for PIC24FJ64GU205
0.17×
double divide
Biggest win for ESP32
800×
uint64_t divide
Clock for clock
3.67×
ESP32 needs fewer cycles per op (7.50× clock gap)

Operation by operation

Every cell

How many times faster PIC24FJ64GU205 is than ESP32, operations per second. Blue: PIC24FJ64GU205 ahead. Orange: ESP32 ahead.

AddSubtractMultiplyDivideModulo
uint8_t 1/8.02× 1.43 M/s · 11.4 M/s 1/8.02× 1.43 M/s · 11.4 M/s 1/8.72× 1.31 M/s · 11.4 M/s 1/21.0× 497 k/s · 10.4 M/s 1/20.1× 497 k/s · 10 M/s
uint16_t 1/9.99× 1.15 M/s · 11.4 M/s 1/9.99× 1.15 M/s · 11.4 M/s 1/9.99× 1.15 M/s · 11.4 M/s 1/19.2× 485 k/s · 9.32 M/s 1/18.5× 485 k/s · 8.97 M/s
uint32_t 1/13.5× 890 k/s · 12 M/s 1/13.5× 890 k/s · 12 M/s 1/18.7× 641 k/s · 12 M/s 1/291× 34.3 k/s · 10 M/s 1/284× 33.8 k/s · 9.6 M/s
uint64_t 1/12.3× 572 k/s · 7.05 M/s 1/10.4× 668 k/s · 6.94 M/s 1/36.0× 133 k/s · 4.79 M/s 1/800× 2.19 k/s · 1.75 M/s 1/774× 2.18 k/s · 1.69 M/s
float 1/90.3× 133 k/s · 12 M/s 1/98.5× 122 k/s · 12 M/s 1/71.6× 168 k/s · 12 M/s 1/48.6× 78.2 k/s · 3.8 M/s 1/18.0× 96.3 k/s · 1.73 M/s
double 1/22.9× 130 k/s · 2.96 M/s 1/22.5× 119 k/s · 2.68 M/s 1/11.5× 162 k/s · 1.86 M/s 1/5.95× 77.1 k/s · 459 k/s 1/11.7× 94.5 k/s · 1.11 M/s

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