Pi Pico vs MSP430FR2433
Cortex-M0+ (RP2040) at 200 MHz against MSP430FRx (MSP430FR2433) at 15.99 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
MSP430FR2433
MSP430FRx (MSP430FR2433)
- Family
- MSP430
- Board
- MSP-EXP430FR2433 LaunchPad
- Clock
- 15.99 MHz
- float / double
- 32-bit / 64-bit
Typical gap
85.8×
Pi Pico faster, geometric mean of 30 cells
Biggest win for Pi Pico
1,081×
double multiply
Closest cell
16.5×
uint16_t add
Clock for clock
6.86×
Pi Pico needs fewer cycles per op (12.5× clock gap)
Operation by operation
Every cell
How many times faster Pi Pico is than MSP430FR2433, operations per second. Blue: Pi Pico ahead. Orange: MSP430FR2433 ahead.
| Add | Subtract | Multiply | Divide | Modulo | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| uint8_t | 21.8× 13.5 M/s · 621 k/s | 24.3× 14.5 M/s · 598 k/s | 43.8× 12.7 M/s · 290 k/s | 55.3× 4.78 M/s · 86.4 k/s | 55.6× 4.78 M/s · 86 k/s |
| uint16_t | 16.5× 10.7 M/s · 646 k/s | 17.1× 10.7 M/s · 622 k/s | 36.4× 11.3 M/s · 309 k/s | 71.0× 4.77 M/s · 67.3 k/s | 71.3× 4.77 M/s · 67 k/s |
| uint32_t | 30.4× 11.3 M/s · 370 k/s | 28.3× 11.3 M/s · 397 k/s | 56.9× 11.9 M/s · 210 k/s | 222× 5.14 M/s · 23.1 k/s | 223× 5.14 M/s · 23 k/s |
| uint64_t | 42.7× 6.44 M/s · 151 k/s | 44.1× 6.05 M/s · 137 k/s | 33.2× 3.13 M/s · 94.3 k/s | 494× 2.01 M/s · 4.06 k/s | 394× 2.01 M/s · 5.1 k/s |
| float | 128× 2.16 M/s · 16.8 k/s | 123× 2 M/s · 16.2 k/s | 419× 2.45 M/s · 5.85 k/s | 172× 2.01 M/s · 11.7 k/s | 53.6× 1.14 M/s · 21.3 k/s |
| double | 196× 1.6 M/s · 8.18 k/s | 190× 1.48 M/s · 7.8 k/s | 1,081× 1.02 M/s · 942 /s | 442× 926 k/s · 2.1 k/s | 83.5× 734 k/s · 8.79 k/s |