Pi Pico 2W vs ESP32-S3
Cortex-M33 (RP2350) at 150 MHz against Xtensa LX7 (ESP32-S3) at 240 MHz, on real hardware, same C kernels, clocks verified.
Pi Pico 2W
Cortex-M33 (RP2350)
- Family
- Arm Cortex-M
- Board
- Pi Pico 2W
- Clock
- 150 MHz
- float / double
- 32-bit / 64-bit
ESP32-S3
Xtensa LX7 (ESP32-S3)
- Family
- Xtensa
- Board
- ESP32-S3 DevKit
- Clock
- 240 MHz
- float / double
- 32-bit / 64-bit
Typical gap
1.01×
ESP32-S3 faster, geometric mean of 30 cells
Biggest win for Pi Pico 2W
4.07×
double divide
Biggest win for ESP32-S3
5.29×
uint64_t divide
Clock for clock
1.59×
Pi Pico 2W needs fewer cycles per op (1.60× clock gap)
Operation by operation
Every cell
How many times faster Pi Pico 2W is than ESP32-S3, operations per second. Blue: Pi Pico 2W ahead. Orange: ESP32-S3 ahead.
| Add | Subtract | Multiply | Divide | Modulo | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| uint8_t | 1/1.04× 12.2 M/s · 12.7 M/s | 1/1.04× 12.2 M/s · 12.7 M/s | 1/1.12× 11.3 M/s · 12.7 M/s | 1/1.21× 9.49 M/s · 11.5 M/s | 1/1.37× 7.97 M/s · 10.9 M/s |
| uint16_t | 1/1.04× 12.3 M/s · 12.7 M/s | 1/1.04× 12.2 M/s · 12.7 M/s | 1/1.04× 12.3 M/s · 12.7 M/s | 1/1.17× 8.7 M/s · 10.1 M/s | 1/1.31× 7.4 M/s · 9.72 M/s |
| uint32_t | 1/1.01× 13.3 M/s · 13.4 M/s | 1/1.00× 13.4 M/s · 13.4 M/s | 1/1.09× 12.3 M/s · 13.4 M/s | 1/1.19× 9.2 M/s · 11 M/s | 1/1.28× 8.19 M/s · 10.5 M/s |
| uint64_t | 1.25× 9.84 M/s · 7.87 M/s | 1.26× 9.84 M/s · 7.81 M/s | 1.50× 8.19 M/s · 5.45 M/s | 1/5.29× 340 k/s · 1.8 M/s | 1/5.12× 340 k/s · 1.74 M/s |
| float | 1.05× 13.4 M/s · 12.7 M/s | 1.05× 13.4 M/s · 12.7 M/s | 1.05× 13.4 M/s · 12.7 M/s | 1.85× 6.43 M/s · 3.48 M/s | 1/1.12× 1.74 M/s · 1.95 M/s |
| double | 1.88× 5.71 M/s · 3.04 M/s | 2.04× 5.69 M/s · 2.79 M/s | 1.73× 3.46 M/s · 2 M/s | 4.07× 2.1 M/s · 516 k/s | 1/1.00× 1.22 M/s · 1.22 M/s |