Arduino Uno vs Pi Pico
ATmega328P at 16 MHz against Cortex-M0+ (RP2040) at 200 MHz, on real hardware, same C kernels, clocks verified.
Pi Pico
Cortex-M0+ (RP2040)
- Family
- Arm Cortex-M
- Board
- Pi Pico
- Clock
- 200 MHz
- float / double
- 32-bit / 64-bit
Typical gap
38.3×
Pi Pico faster, geometric mean of 30 cells
Biggest win for Arduino Uno
0.14×
double modulo
Biggest win for Pi Pico
207×
uint32_t divide
Clock for clock
3.06×
Pi Pico needs fewer cycles per op (12.5× clock gap)
Operation by operation
Every cell
How many times faster Arduino Uno is than Pi Pico, operations per second. Blue: Arduino Uno ahead. Orange: Pi Pico ahead.
| Add | Subtract | Multiply | Divide | Modulo | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| uint8_t | 1/27.7× 490 k/s · 13.5 M/s | 1/29.7× 490 k/s · 14.5 M/s | 1/28.3× 448 k/s · 12.7 M/s | 1/33.6× 142 k/s · 4.78 M/s | 1/33.6× 142 k/s · 4.78 M/s |
| uint16_t | 1/20.4× 522 k/s · 10.7 M/s | 1/20.4× 522 k/s · 10.7 M/s | 1/27.2× 413 k/s · 11.3 M/s | 1/68.7× 69.5 k/s · 4.77 M/s | 1/68.7× 69.5 k/s · 4.77 M/s |
| uint32_t | 1/32.9× 342 k/s · 11.3 M/s | 1/32.9× 342 k/s · 11.3 M/s | 1/88.3× 135 k/s · 11.9 M/s | 1/207× 24.8 k/s · 5.14 M/s | 1/207× 24.8 k/s · 5.14 M/s |
| uint64_t | 1/86.3× 74.6 k/s · 6.44 M/s | 1/81.1× 74.6 k/s · 6.05 M/s | 1/87.2× 35.9 k/s · 3.13 M/s | 1/131× 15.3 k/s · 2.01 M/s | 1/132× 15.2 k/s · 2.01 M/s |
| float | 1/22.0× 98.3 k/s · 2.16 M/s | 1/20.3× 98.7 k/s · 2 M/s | 1/28.2× 87 k/s · 2.45 M/s | 1/62.3× 32.2 k/s · 2.01 M/s | 1/11.1× 103 k/s · 1.14 M/s |
| double | 1/16.3× 98.1 k/s · 1.6 M/s | 1/15.0× 98.6 k/s · 1.48 M/s | 1/11.7× 86.8 k/s · 1.02 M/s | 1/28.8× 32.2 k/s · 926 k/s | 1/7.14× 103 k/s · 734 k/s |