Pi Pico vs PIC18F57Q84
Cortex-M0+ (RP2040) at 200 MHz against PIC18F (PIC18F57Q84) at 64 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
PIC18F57Q84
PIC18F (PIC18F57Q84)
- Family
- PIC / dsPIC
- Board
- PIC18F57Q84 Curiosity Nano
- Clock
- 64 MHz
- float / double
- 32-bit / 32-bit
Typical gap
60.5×
Pi Pico faster, geometric mean of 25 cells
Biggest win for Pi Pico
508×
uint32_t multiply
Closest cell
24.4×
uint8_t multiply
Clock for clock
19.4×
Pi Pico needs fewer cycles per op (3.13× clock gap)
Operation by operation
Every cell
How many times faster Pi Pico is than PIC18F57Q84, operations per second. Blue: Pi Pico ahead. Orange: PIC18F57Q84 ahead.
| Add | Subtract | Multiply | Divide | Modulo | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| uint8_t | 25.2× 13.5 M/s · 538 k/s | 28.8× 14.5 M/s · 504 k/s | 24.4× 12.7 M/s · 520 k/s | 35.3× 4.78 M/s · 135 k/s | 45.0× 4.78 M/s · 106 k/s |
| uint16_t | 32.5× 10.7 M/s · 328 k/s | 32.5× 10.7 M/s · 328 k/s | 39.2× 11.3 M/s · 287 k/s | 76.8× 4.77 M/s · 62.1 k/s | 67.6× 4.77 M/s · 70.6 k/s |
| uint32_t | 47.0× 11.3 M/s · 240 k/s | 47.0× 11.3 M/s · 240 k/s | 508× 11.9 M/s · 23.5 k/s | 210× 5.14 M/s · 24.5 k/s | 180× 5.14 M/s · 28.6 k/s |
| uint64_t | not measured | not measured | not measured | not measured | not measured |
| float | 57.8× 2.16 M/s · 37.4 k/s | 63.2× 2 M/s · 31.7 k/s | 109× 2.45 M/s · 22.6 k/s | 197× 2.01 M/s · 10.2 k/s | 57.6× 1.14 M/s · 19.8 k/s |
| double | 42.8× 1.6 M/s · 37.4 k/s | 46.7× 1.48 M/s · 31.7 k/s | 45.1× 1.02 M/s · 22.6 k/s | 90.8× 926 k/s · 10.2 k/s | 37.1× 734 k/s · 19.8 k/s |