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Pi Pico 2W vs Pi Pico

Cortex-M33 (RP2350) at 150 MHz against Cortex-M0+ (RP2040) at 200 MHz, on real hardware, same C kernels, clocks verified.

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
Pi Pico

Pi Pico

Cortex-M0+ (RP2040)
Family
Arm Cortex-M
Board
Pi Pico
Clock
200 MHz
float / double
32-bit / 64-bit
Typical gap
1.60×
Pi Pico 2W faster, geometric mean of 30 cells
Biggest win for Pi Pico 2W
6.67×
float subtract
Biggest win for Pi Pico
5.91×
uint64_t divide
Clock for clock
2.13×
Pi Pico 2W needs fewer cycles per op (1.33× clock gap)

Operation by operation

Every cell

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

AddSubtractMultiplyDivideModulo
uint8_t 1/1.11× 12.2 M/s · 13.5 M/s 1/1.19× 12.2 M/s · 14.5 M/s 1/1.12× 11.3 M/s · 12.7 M/s 1.99× 9.49 M/s · 4.78 M/s 1.67× 7.97 M/s · 4.78 M/s
uint16_t 1.15× 12.3 M/s · 10.7 M/s 1.15× 12.2 M/s · 10.7 M/s 1.09× 12.3 M/s · 11.3 M/s 1.82× 8.7 M/s · 4.77 M/s 1.55× 7.4 M/s · 4.77 M/s
uint32_t 1.18× 13.3 M/s · 11.3 M/s 1.19× 13.4 M/s · 11.3 M/s 1.03× 12.3 M/s · 11.9 M/s 1.79× 9.2 M/s · 5.14 M/s 1.59× 8.19 M/s · 5.14 M/s
uint64_t 1.53× 9.84 M/s · 6.44 M/s 1.63× 9.84 M/s · 6.05 M/s 2.62× 8.19 M/s · 3.13 M/s 1/5.91× 340 k/s · 2.01 M/s 1/5.90× 340 k/s · 2.01 M/s
float 6.18× 13.4 M/s · 2.16 M/s 6.67× 13.4 M/s · 2 M/s 5.44× 13.4 M/s · 2.45 M/s 3.20× 6.43 M/s · 2.01 M/s 1.53× 1.74 M/s · 1.14 M/s
double 3.57× 5.71 M/s · 1.6 M/s 3.84× 5.69 M/s · 1.48 M/s 3.40× 3.46 M/s · 1.02 M/s 2.27× 2.1 M/s · 926 k/s 1.66× 1.22 M/s · 734 k/s

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