Pi Pico 2W vs ESP32
Cortex-M33 (RP2350) at 150 MHz against Xtensa LX6 (ESP32) 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
Typical gap
1.08×
Pi Pico 2W faster, geometric mean of 30 cells
Biggest win for Pi Pico 2W
4.57×
double divide
Biggest win for ESP32
5.14×
uint64_t divide
Clock for clock
1.72×
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, operations per second. Blue: Pi Pico 2W ahead. Orange: ESP32 ahead.
| Add | Subtract | Multiply | Divide | Modulo | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| uint8_t | 1.07× 12.2 M/s · 11.4 M/s | 1.07× 12.2 M/s · 11.4 M/s | 1/1.01× 11.3 M/s · 11.4 M/s | 1/1.10× 9.49 M/s · 10.4 M/s | 1/1.25× 7.97 M/s · 10 M/s |
| uint16_t | 1.07× 12.3 M/s · 11.4 M/s | 1.07× 12.2 M/s · 11.4 M/s | 1.07× 12.3 M/s · 11.4 M/s | 1/1.07× 8.7 M/s · 9.32 M/s | 1/1.21× 7.4 M/s · 8.97 M/s |
| uint32_t | 1.11× 13.3 M/s · 12 M/s | 1.11× 13.4 M/s · 12 M/s | 1.02× 12.3 M/s · 12 M/s | 1/1.09× 9.2 M/s · 10 M/s | 1/1.17× 8.19 M/s · 9.6 M/s |
| uint64_t | 1.40× 9.84 M/s · 7.05 M/s | 1.42× 9.84 M/s · 6.94 M/s | 1.71× 8.19 M/s · 4.79 M/s | 1/5.14× 340 k/s · 1.75 M/s | 1/4.97× 340 k/s · 1.69 M/s |
| float | 1.11× 13.4 M/s · 12 M/s | 1.11× 13.4 M/s · 12 M/s | 1.11× 13.4 M/s · 12 M/s | 1.69× 6.43 M/s · 3.8 M/s | 1.00× 1.74 M/s · 1.73 M/s |
| double | 1.93× 5.71 M/s · 2.96 M/s | 2.12× 5.69 M/s · 2.68 M/s | 1.86× 3.46 M/s · 1.86 M/s | 4.57× 2.1 M/s · 459 k/s | 1.10× 1.22 M/s · 1.11 M/s |