Hackaday reports that a user, mircemk, has created a simple fluid simulation involving an ESP32 microcontroller that is hooked up to a 3-axis gyroscope and accelerometer to track motion and simulate how particles move.
The simulation is displayed on a 16 x 16 matrix of addressable RGB LEDs, which can operate in several different display modes, including running sand, liquid, and gas simulations.
To compare, the ESP32 sports a dual-core Tensilica Xtensa LX6 microcontroller with a maximum frequency of 240 MHz, while the Allwinner H618 has four ARM Cortex-A53 cores at 2 GHz.
While this is not a direct comparison, as the latter is a SoC intended for tablets and set-top boxes, and the former is a microcontroller, it would still provide a significant advantage due to the increased number of cores and their higher clock speed.
