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PIC16F17146 vs Pi Pico

PIC16F (PIC16F17146) at 32 MHz against Cortex-M0+ (RP2040) at 200 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

Pi Pico

Cortex-M0+ (RP2040)
Family
Arm Cortex-M
Board
Pi Pico
Clock
200 MHz
float / double
32-bit / 64-bit
Typical gap
152×
Pi Pico faster, geometric mean of 25 cells
Biggest win for PIC16F17146
0.02×
uint16_t subtract
Biggest win for Pi Pico
1,204×
uint32_t multiply
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 PIC16F17146 is than Pi Pico, operations per second. Blue: PIC16F17146 ahead. Orange: Pi Pico ahead.

AddSubtractMultiplyDivideModulo
uint8_t 1/45.5× 298 k/s · 13.5 M/s 1/52.4× 277 k/s · 14.5 M/s 1/196× 64.8 k/s · 12.7 M/s 1/77.1× 62 k/s · 4.78 M/s 1/238× 20.1 k/s · 4.78 M/s
uint16_t 1/43.7× 244 k/s · 10.7 M/s 1/43.7× 244 k/s · 10.7 M/s 1/443× 25.4 k/s · 11.3 M/s 1/202× 23.6 k/s · 4.77 M/s 1/175× 27.3 k/s · 4.77 M/s
uint32_t 1/107× 105 k/s · 11.3 M/s 1/126× 89 k/s · 11.3 M/s 1/1,204× 9.9 k/s · 11.9 M/s 1/557× 9.23 k/s · 5.14 M/s 1/476× 10.8 k/s · 5.14 M/s
uint64_t not measurednot measurednot measurednot measurednot measured
float 1/86.8× 24.9 k/s · 2.16 M/s 1/108× 18.6 k/s · 2 M/s 1/412× 5.95 k/s · 2.45 M/s 1/364× 5.51 k/s · 2.01 M/s 1/155× 7.33 k/s · 1.14 M/s
double 1/64.3× 24.9 k/s · 1.6 M/s 1/79.6× 18.6 k/s · 1.48 M/s 1/171× 5.95 k/s · 1.02 M/s 1/168× 5.51 k/s · 926 k/s 1/100× 7.33 k/s · 734 k/s

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