Pi Pico vs dsPIC33AK512
Cortex-M0+ (RP2040) at 200 MHz against dsPIC33A (dsPIC33AK512MPS506) 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
dsPIC33AK512
dsPIC33A (dsPIC33AK512MPS506)
- Family
- PIC / dsPIC
- Board
- dsPIC33AK512MPS506 Curiosity Nano
- Clock
- 200 MHz
- float / double
- 32-bit / 32-bit
Typical gap
1.59×
dsPIC33AK512 faster, geometric mean of 30 cells
Biggest win for Pi Pico
20.2×
uint64_t divide
Biggest win for dsPIC33AK512
8.33×
double multiply
Clock for clock
1.59×
dsPIC33AK512 needs fewer cycles per op (1.00× clock gap)
Operation by operation
Every cell
How many times faster Pi Pico is than dsPIC33AK512, operations per second. Blue: Pi Pico ahead. Orange: dsPIC33AK512 ahead.
| Add | Subtract | Multiply | Divide | Modulo | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| uint8_t | 1/1.27× 13.5 M/s · 17.3 M/s | 1/1.19× 14.5 M/s · 17.3 M/s | 1/1.36× 12.7 M/s · 17.3 M/s | 1/1.94× 4.78 M/s · 9.26 M/s | 1/1.63× 4.78 M/s · 7.81 M/s |
| uint16_t | 1/1.20× 10.7 M/s · 12.8 M/s | 1/1.20× 10.7 M/s · 12.8 M/s | 1/1.41× 11.3 M/s · 15.9 M/s | 1/1.94× 4.77 M/s · 9.26 M/s | 1/1.64× 4.77 M/s · 7.81 M/s |
| uint32_t | 1.10× 11.3 M/s · 10.2 M/s | 1.10× 11.3 M/s · 10.2 M/s | 1/1.01× 11.9 M/s · 12.1 M/s | 1/1.46× 5.14 M/s · 7.52 M/s | 1/1.31× 5.14 M/s · 6.76 M/s |
| uint64_t | 1/1.51× 6.44 M/s · 9.71 M/s | 1/1.61× 6.05 M/s · 9.71 M/s | 1/1.96× 3.13 M/s · 6.14 M/s | 20.2× 2.01 M/s · 99.2 k/s | 20.1× 2.01 M/s · 99.8 k/s |
| float | 1/3.92× 2.16 M/s · 8.48 M/s | 1/4.23× 2 M/s · 8.48 M/s | 1/3.46× 2.45 M/s · 8.48 M/s | 1/3.15× 2.01 M/s · 6.33 M/s | 1/1.74× 1.14 M/s · 1.98 M/s |
| double | 1/5.29× 1.6 M/s · 8.48 M/s | 1/5.72× 1.48 M/s · 8.48 M/s | 1/8.33× 1.02 M/s · 8.48 M/s | 1/6.83× 926 k/s · 6.33 M/s | 1/2.70× 734 k/s · 1.98 M/s |