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Pi Pico 2W vs PIC18F57Q84

Cortex-M33 (RP2350) at 150 MHz against PIC18F (PIC18F57Q84) at 64 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
PIC18F57Q84 Curiosity Nano

PIC18F57Q84

PIC18F (PIC18F57Q84)
Family
PIC / dsPIC
Board
PIC18F57Q84 Curiosity Nano
Clock
64 MHz
float / double
32-bit / 32-bit
Typical gap
114×
Pi Pico 2W faster, geometric mean of 25 cells
Biggest win for Pi Pico 2W
630×
float divide
Closest cell
21.7×
uint8_t multiply
Clock for clock
48.5×
Pi Pico 2W needs fewer cycles per op (2.34× clock gap)

Operation by operation

Every cell

How many times faster Pi Pico 2W is than PIC18F57Q84, operations per second. Blue: Pi Pico 2W ahead. Orange: PIC18F57Q84 ahead.

AddSubtractMultiplyDivideModulo
uint8_t 22.7× 12.2 M/s · 538 k/s 24.2× 12.2 M/s · 504 k/s 21.7× 11.3 M/s · 520 k/s 70.1× 9.49 M/s · 135 k/s 75.1× 7.97 M/s · 106 k/s
uint16_t 37.4× 12.3 M/s · 328 k/s 37.2× 12.2 M/s · 328 k/s 42.7× 12.3 M/s · 287 k/s 140× 8.7 M/s · 62.1 k/s 105× 7.4 M/s · 70.6 k/s
uint32_t 55.4× 13.3 M/s · 240 k/s 55.7× 13.4 M/s · 240 k/s 522× 12.3 M/s · 23.5 k/s 375× 9.2 M/s · 24.5 k/s 286× 8.19 M/s · 28.6 k/s
uint64_t not measurednot measurednot measurednot measurednot measured
float 357× 13.4 M/s · 37.4 k/s 421× 13.4 M/s · 31.7 k/s 592× 13.4 M/s · 22.6 k/s 630× 6.43 M/s · 10.2 k/s 87.8× 1.74 M/s · 19.8 k/s
double 153× 5.71 M/s · 37.4 k/s 180× 5.69 M/s · 31.7 k/s 153× 3.46 M/s · 22.6 k/s 206× 2.1 M/s · 10.2 k/s 61.6× 1.22 M/s · 19.8 k/s

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