Pi Pico vs PIC16F17146
Cortex-M0+ (RP2040) at 200 MHz against PIC16F (PIC16F17146) at 32 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
PIC16F17146
PIC16F (PIC16F17146)
- Family
- PIC / dsPIC
- Board
- PIC16F17146 Curiosity Nano
- Clock
- 32 MHz
- float / double
- 32-bit / 32-bit
Typical gap
152×
Pi Pico faster, geometric mean of 25 cells
Biggest win for Pi Pico
1,204×
uint32_t multiply
Closest cell
43.7×
uint16_t subtract
Clock for clock
24.3×
Pi Pico needs fewer cycles per op (6.25× clock gap)
Operation by operation
Every cell
How many times faster Pi Pico is than PIC16F17146, operations per second. Blue: Pi Pico ahead. Orange: PIC16F17146 ahead.
| Add | Subtract | Multiply | Divide | Modulo | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| uint8_t | 45.5× 13.5 M/s · 298 k/s | 52.4× 14.5 M/s · 277 k/s | 196× 12.7 M/s · 64.8 k/s | 77.1× 4.78 M/s · 62 k/s | 238× 4.78 M/s · 20.1 k/s |
| uint16_t | 43.7× 10.7 M/s · 244 k/s | 43.7× 10.7 M/s · 244 k/s | 443× 11.3 M/s · 25.4 k/s | 202× 4.77 M/s · 23.6 k/s | 175× 4.77 M/s · 27.3 k/s |
| uint32_t | 107× 11.3 M/s · 105 k/s | 126× 11.3 M/s · 89 k/s | 1,204× 11.9 M/s · 9.9 k/s | 557× 5.14 M/s · 9.23 k/s | 476× 5.14 M/s · 10.8 k/s |
| uint64_t | not measured | not measured | not measured | not measured | not measured |
| float | 86.8× 2.16 M/s · 24.9 k/s | 108× 2 M/s · 18.6 k/s | 412× 2.45 M/s · 5.95 k/s | 364× 2.01 M/s · 5.51 k/s | 155× 1.14 M/s · 7.33 k/s |
| double | 64.3× 1.6 M/s · 24.9 k/s | 79.6× 1.48 M/s · 18.6 k/s | 171× 1.02 M/s · 5.95 k/s | 168× 926 k/s · 5.51 k/s | 100× 734 k/s · 7.33 k/s |