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Arduino Uno vs Pi Pico 2W

ATmega328P at 16 MHz against Cortex-M33 (RP2350) at 150 MHz, on real hardware, same C kernels, clocks verified.

Arduino Uno

Arduino Uno

ATmega328P
Family
AVR
Board
Arduino Uno
Clock
16 MHz
float / double
32-bit / 32-bit
Pi Pico 2W

Pi Pico 2W

Cortex-M33 (RP2350)
Family
Arm Cortex-M
Board
Pi Pico 2W
Clock
150 MHz
float / double
32-bit / 64-bit
Typical gap
61.3×
Pi Pico 2W faster, geometric mean of 30 cells
Biggest win for Arduino Uno
0.08×
double modulo
Biggest win for Pi Pico 2W
371×
uint32_t divide
Clock for clock
6.54×
Pi Pico 2W needs fewer cycles per op (9.38× clock gap)

Operation by operation

Every cell

How many times faster Arduino Uno is than Pi Pico 2W, operations per second. Blue: Arduino Uno ahead. Orange: Pi Pico 2W ahead.

AddSubtractMultiplyDivideModulo
uint8_t 1/24.9× 490 k/s · 12.2 M/s 1/24.9× 490 k/s · 12.2 M/s 1/25.2× 448 k/s · 11.3 M/s 1/66.7× 142 k/s · 9.49 M/s 1/56.0× 142 k/s · 7.97 M/s
uint16_t 1/23.5× 522 k/s · 12.3 M/s 1/23.4× 522 k/s · 12.2 M/s 1/29.7× 413 k/s · 12.3 M/s 1/125× 69.5 k/s · 8.7 M/s 1/107× 69.5 k/s · 7.4 M/s
uint32_t 1/38.8× 342 k/s · 13.3 M/s 1/39.1× 342 k/s · 13.4 M/s 1/90.8× 135 k/s · 12.3 M/s 1/371× 24.8 k/s · 9.2 M/s 1/330× 24.8 k/s · 8.19 M/s
uint64_t 1/132× 74.6 k/s · 9.84 M/s 1/132× 74.6 k/s · 9.84 M/s 1/228× 35.9 k/s · 8.19 M/s 1/22.2× 15.3 k/s · 340 k/s 1/22.4× 15.2 k/s · 340 k/s
float 1/136× 98.3 k/s · 13.4 M/s 1/135× 98.7 k/s · 13.4 M/s 1/154× 87 k/s · 13.4 M/s 1/200× 32.2 k/s · 6.43 M/s 1/16.9× 103 k/s · 1.74 M/s
double 1/58.2× 98.1 k/s · 5.71 M/s 1/57.8× 98.6 k/s · 5.69 M/s 1/39.9× 86.8 k/s · 3.46 M/s 1/65.2× 32.2 k/s · 2.1 M/s 1/11.9× 103 k/s · 1.22 M/s

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