Pi Pico vs PIC24FJ64GU205

Cortex-M0+ (RP2040) at 200 MHz against PIC24F (PIC24FJ64GU205) at 32 MHz, on real hardware, same C kernels, clocks verified.

Pi Pico

Cortex-M0+ (RP2040)

PIC24F (PIC24FJ64GU205)

Typical gap

18.5×

Pi Pico faster, geometric mean of 30 cells

Biggest win for Pi Pico

919×

uint64_t modulo

Closest cell

6.27×

double multiply

Clock for clock

2.96×

Pi Pico needs fewer cycles per op (6.25× clock gap)

How many times faster Pi Pico is than PIC24FJ64GU205, operations per second. Blue: Pi Pico ahead. Orange: PIC24FJ64GU205 ahead.

	Add	Subtract	Multiply	Divide	Modulo
uint8_t	9.50× 13.5 M/s · 1.43 M/s	10.2× 14.5 M/s · 1.43 M/s	9.69× 12.7 M/s · 1.31 M/s	9.62× 4.78 M/s · 497 k/s	9.62× 4.78 M/s · 497 k/s
uint16_t	9.30× 10.7 M/s · 1.15 M/s	9.30× 10.7 M/s · 1.15 M/s	9.83× 11.3 M/s · 1.15 M/s	9.83× 4.77 M/s · 485 k/s	9.83× 4.77 M/s · 485 k/s
uint32_t	12.6× 11.3 M/s · 890 k/s	12.6× 11.3 M/s · 890 k/s	18.6× 11.9 M/s · 641 k/s	150× 5.14 M/s · 34.3 k/s	152× 5.14 M/s · 33.8 k/s
uint64_t	11.3× 6.44 M/s · 572 k/s	9.06× 6.05 M/s · 668 k/s	23.5× 3.13 M/s · 133 k/s	918× 2.01 M/s · 2.19 k/s	919× 2.01 M/s · 2.18 k/s
float	16.3× 2.16 M/s · 133 k/s	16.5× 2 M/s · 122 k/s	14.6× 2.45 M/s · 168 k/s	25.7× 2.01 M/s · 78.2 k/s	11.8× 1.14 M/s · 96.3 k/s
double	12.4× 1.6 M/s · 130 k/s	12.5× 1.48 M/s · 119 k/s	6.27× 1.02 M/s · 162 k/s	12.0× 926 k/s · 77.1 k/s	7.76× 734 k/s · 94.5 k/s