https://toorun.dev/tags/riscv/Recent content in riscv on toorun.devHugo -- gohugo.ioen-usSat, 27 Jun 2026 12:30:00 +0000https://toorun.dev/posts/cpu-performance-metrics-embedded-systems-mips-dmips-coremark-mhz-flops/Sat, 27 Jun 2026 12:30:00 +0000https://toorun.dev/posts/cpu-performance-metrics-embedded-systems-mips-dmips-coremark-mhz-flops/CPU Performance Metrics in Embedded Systems: MIPS, DMIPS, CoreMark, MHz, FLOPS, and What Actually Matters If you have ever compared two microcontrollers and asked “which one is faster?”, you have probably seen a mix of numbers: clock speed in megahertz, marketing slides with DMIPS, benchmark charts with CoreMark, and sometimes floating-point claims in MFLOPS or GFLOPS. Those numbers are useful, but they are also easy to misuse. A 240 MHz device can outperform a 400 MHz device in one task, then lose badly in another.