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Pi Pico vs XIAO MG24

Cortex-M0+ (RP2040) at 200 MHz against Cortex-M33 (EFR32MG24) at 39 MHz, on real hardware, same C kernels, clocks verified.

Pi Pico

Pi Pico

Cortex-M0+ (RP2040)
Family
Arm Cortex-M
Board
Pi Pico
Clock
200 MHz
float / double
32-bit / 64-bit
XIAO MG24 Sense

XIAO MG24

Cortex-M33 (EFR32MG24)
Family
Arm Cortex-M
Board
XIAO MG24 Sense
Clock
39 MHz
float / double
32-bit / 64-bit
Typical gap
2.78×
Pi Pico faster, geometric mean of 30 cells
Biggest win for Pi Pico
7.05×
uint64_t modulo
Biggest win for XIAO MG24
1.59×
float subtract
Clock for clock
1.85×
XIAO MG24 needs fewer cycles per op (5.13× clock gap)

Operation by operation

Every cell

How many times faster Pi Pico is than XIAO MG24, operations per second. Blue: Pi Pico ahead. Orange: XIAO MG24 ahead.

AddSubtractMultiplyDivideModulo
uint8_t 5.00× 13.5 M/s · 2.71 M/s 5.36× 14.5 M/s · 2.71 M/s 5.03× 12.7 M/s · 2.52 M/s 1.96× 4.78 M/s · 2.44 M/s 2.50× 4.78 M/s · 1.92 M/s
uint16_t 3.62× 10.7 M/s · 2.94 M/s 3.64× 10.7 M/s · 2.93 M/s 3.84× 11.3 M/s · 2.93 M/s 2.29× 4.77 M/s · 2.09 M/s 2.70× 4.77 M/s · 1.77 M/s
uint32_t 3.52× 11.3 M/s · 3.19 M/s 3.52× 11.3 M/s · 3.19 M/s 4.07× 11.9 M/s · 2.93 M/s 2.33× 5.14 M/s · 2.21 M/s 2.62× 5.14 M/s · 1.96 M/s
uint64_t 2.73× 6.44 M/s · 2.36 M/s 2.56× 6.05 M/s · 2.36 M/s 1.59× 3.13 M/s · 1.97 M/s 7.05× 2.01 M/s · 285 k/s 7.05× 2.01 M/s · 285 k/s
float 1/1.47× 2.16 M/s · 3.18 M/s 1/1.59× 2 M/s · 3.18 M/s 1/1.30× 2.45 M/s · 3.18 M/s 1.30× 2.01 M/s · 1.54 M/s 3.58× 1.14 M/s · 318 k/s
double 4.33× 1.6 M/s · 370 k/s 4.02× 1.48 M/s · 368 k/s 2.02× 1.02 M/s · 503 k/s 2.45× 926 k/s · 379 k/s 4.45× 734 k/s · 165 k/s

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