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PIC16F17146 vs Pi Pico 2W

PIC16F (PIC16F17146) at 32 MHz against Cortex-M33 (RP2350) at 150 MHz, on real hardware, same C kernels, clocks verified.

PIC16F17146 Curiosity Nano

PIC16F17146

PIC16F (PIC16F17146)
Family
PIC / dsPIC
Board
PIC16F17146 Curiosity Nano
Clock
32 MHz
float / double
32-bit / 32-bit
Pi Pico 2W

Pi Pico 2W

Cortex-M33 (RP2350)
Family
Arm Cortex-M
Board
Pi Pico 2W
Clock
150 MHz
float / double
32-bit / 64-bit
Typical gap
286×
Pi Pico 2W faster, geometric mean of 25 cells
Biggest win for PIC16F17146
0.02×
uint8_t add
Biggest win for Pi Pico 2W
2,243×
float multiply
Clock for clock
61.0×
Pi Pico 2W needs fewer cycles per op (4.69× clock gap)

Operation by operation

Every cell

How many times faster PIC16F17146 is than Pi Pico 2W, operations per second. Blue: PIC16F17146 ahead. Orange: Pi Pico 2W ahead.

AddSubtractMultiplyDivideModulo
uint8_t 1/40.9× 298 k/s · 12.2 M/s 1/44.0× 277 k/s · 12.2 M/s 1/174× 64.8 k/s · 11.3 M/s 1/153× 62 k/s · 9.49 M/s 1/397× 20.1 k/s · 7.97 M/s
uint16_t 1/50.4× 244 k/s · 12.3 M/s 1/50.1× 244 k/s · 12.2 M/s 1/483× 25.4 k/s · 12.3 M/s 1/369× 23.6 k/s · 8.7 M/s 1/271× 27.3 k/s · 7.4 M/s
uint32_t 1/126× 105 k/s · 13.3 M/s 1/150× 89 k/s · 13.4 M/s 1/1,238× 9.9 k/s · 12.3 M/s 1/997× 9.23 k/s · 9.2 M/s 1/758× 10.8 k/s · 8.19 M/s
uint64_t not measurednot measurednot measurednot measurednot measured
float 1/536× 24.9 k/s · 13.4 M/s 1/717× 18.6 k/s · 13.4 M/s 1/2,243× 5.95 k/s · 13.4 M/s 1/1,166× 5.51 k/s · 6.43 M/s 1/237× 7.33 k/s · 1.74 M/s
double 1/229× 24.9 k/s · 5.71 M/s 1/306× 18.6 k/s · 5.69 M/s 1/581× 5.95 k/s · 3.46 M/s 1/381× 5.51 k/s · 2.1 M/s 1/166× 7.33 k/s · 1.22 M/s

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