Pi Pico vs ESP32-S3
Cortex-M0+ (RP2040) at 200 MHz against Xtensa LX7 (ESP32-S3) at 240 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
ESP32-S3
Xtensa LX7 (ESP32-S3)
- Family
- Xtensa
- Board
- ESP32-S3 DevKit
- Clock
- 240 MHz
- float / double
- 32-bit / 64-bit
Typical gap
1.61×
ESP32-S3 faster, geometric mean of 30 cells
Biggest win for Pi Pico
1.79×
double divide
Biggest win for ESP32-S3
6.33×
float subtract
Clock for clock
1.34×
ESP32-S3 needs fewer cycles per op (1.20× clock gap)
Operation by operation
Every cell
How many times faster Pi Pico is than ESP32-S3, operations per second. Blue: Pi Pico ahead. Orange: ESP32-S3 ahead.
| Add | Subtract | Multiply | Divide | Modulo | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| uint8_t | 1.07× 13.5 M/s · 12.7 M/s | 1.14× 14.5 M/s · 12.7 M/s | 1.00× 12.7 M/s · 12.7 M/s | 1/2.40× 4.78 M/s · 11.5 M/s | 1/2.29× 4.78 M/s · 10.9 M/s |
| uint16_t | 1/1.19× 10.7 M/s · 12.7 M/s | 1/1.19× 10.7 M/s · 12.7 M/s | 1/1.13× 11.3 M/s · 12.7 M/s | 1/2.12× 4.77 M/s · 10.1 M/s | 1/2.04× 4.77 M/s · 9.72 M/s |
| uint32_t | 1/1.19× 11.3 M/s · 13.4 M/s | 1/1.19× 11.3 M/s · 13.4 M/s | 1/1.12× 11.9 M/s · 13.4 M/s | 1/2.13× 5.14 M/s · 11 M/s | 1/2.04× 5.14 M/s · 10.5 M/s |
| uint64_t | 1/1.22× 6.44 M/s · 7.87 M/s | 1/1.29× 6.05 M/s · 7.81 M/s | 1/1.74× 3.13 M/s · 5.45 M/s | 1.12× 2.01 M/s · 1.8 M/s | 1.15× 2.01 M/s · 1.74 M/s |
| float | 1/5.87× 2.16 M/s · 12.7 M/s | 1/6.33× 2 M/s · 12.7 M/s | 1/5.17× 2.45 M/s · 12.7 M/s | 1/1.73× 2.01 M/s · 3.48 M/s | 1/1.71× 1.14 M/s · 1.95 M/s |
| double | 1/1.90× 1.6 M/s · 3.04 M/s | 1/1.88× 1.48 M/s · 2.79 M/s | 1/1.96× 1.02 M/s · 2 M/s | 1.79× 926 k/s · 516 k/s | 1/1.67× 734 k/s · 1.22 M/s |