16 of the 20 features in our table differ between the ESP32-C5 and the ESP32-P4.
Dual-band Wi-Fi 6, BLE, Thread and Zigbee
The only one of these eight with 5 GHz: Wi-Fi 6 on both bands, plus Bluetooth LE, Thread and Zigbee, and PSRAM support.
Watch out: The newest chip here: fewer boards and examples so far, and ESPHome needs the ESP-IDF framework.
400 MHz dual-core, MIPI camera and display, no radio
The most powerful: two cores at 400 MHz, MIPI camera and display, an H.264 encoder, USB 2.0 high speed and Ethernet, but no radio.
Watch out: No Wi-Fi or Bluetooth on the chip: boards add a second chip, often an ESP32-C6. Early revisions (v1.x) run at 360 MHz.
| Feature | ESP32-C5 | ESP32-P4 |
|---|---|---|
| CPU | 1 × RISC-V, 240 MHz | 2 × RISC-V, 400 MHz |
| SRAM | 384 KB | 768 KB |
| PSRAM | In-package or external | In-package, 16 or 32 MB |
| Wi-Fi | Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax), 2.4 + 5 GHz | No |
| Bluetooth | LE 5 (Core 6.0 certified) | No |
| Thread / Zigbee | Yes (802.15.4) | No |
| USB | Serial/JTAG (flash, serial, debug) | OTG high speed + full speed, Serial/JTAG |
| GPIO | 29 | 55 |
| ADC channels | 6 | 14 |
| Touch pins | No | 14 |
| Camera | No | MIPI-CSI + parallel |
| Display interface | SPI only | MIPI-DSI + parallel |
| TWAI (CAN) | 2 (CAN FD) | 3 |
| Ethernet MAC | No (SPI module) | Yes (RMII) |
| AI / DSP | No | 128-bit SIMD (AI/DSP) |
| ESPHome | Yes (ESP-IDF) | Yes (ESP-IDF, Wi-Fi from a second chip) |
Same on both: Low-power core, DAC, Deep sleep, and Arduino-ESP32.
Open the ESP32 comparison →Tick what your project needs and see which of the eight chips fits best.
The ESP32-C5 has Wi-Fi on the chip (Wi-Fi 6 on 2.4 and 5 GHz), Bluetooth LE, and Thread or Zigbee. The ESP32-P4 has USB 2.0 high speed (480 Mbit/s), a camera interface (MIPI-CSI), a display interface (MIPI-DSI), and H.264 video encoding in hardware.
The datasheet versions we checked give no deep-sleep figure for either chip, so check the latest datasheets. On a board the regulator and the LEDs usually draw more than the chip.
Arduino-ESP32 and ESP-IDF support both chips, so most code builds for either; pin numbers, strapping pins and some peripherals change. Anything that uses Wi-Fi on the chip (Wi-Fi 6 on 2.4 and 5 GHz) or Bluetooth LE won’t carry over: the ESP32-P4 doesn’t have that hardware.
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Figures from Espressif datasheets, ESPHome and Arduino-ESP32 documentation, checked in November 2026.