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PIC18F57Q84 vs Pi Pico 2W

PIC18F (PIC18F57Q84) at 64 MHz against Cortex-M33 (RP2350) at 150 MHz, on real hardware, same C kernels, clocks verified.

PIC18F57Q84 Curiosity Nano

PIC18F57Q84

PIC18F (PIC18F57Q84)
Family
PIC / dsPIC
Board
PIC18F57Q84 Curiosity Nano
Clock
64 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
114×
Pi Pico 2W faster, geometric mean of 25 cells
Biggest win for PIC18F57Q84
0.05×
uint8_t multiply
Biggest win for Pi Pico 2W
630×
float divide
Clock for clock
48.5×
Pi Pico 2W needs fewer cycles per op (2.34× clock gap)

Operation by operation

Every cell

How many times faster PIC18F57Q84 is than Pi Pico 2W, operations per second. Blue: PIC18F57Q84 ahead. Orange: Pi Pico 2W ahead.

AddSubtractMultiplyDivideModulo
uint8_t 1/22.7× 538 k/s · 12.2 M/s 1/24.2× 504 k/s · 12.2 M/s 1/21.7× 520 k/s · 11.3 M/s 1/70.1× 135 k/s · 9.49 M/s 1/75.1× 106 k/s · 7.97 M/s
uint16_t 1/37.4× 328 k/s · 12.3 M/s 1/37.2× 328 k/s · 12.2 M/s 1/42.7× 287 k/s · 12.3 M/s 1/140× 62.1 k/s · 8.7 M/s 1/105× 70.6 k/s · 7.4 M/s
uint32_t 1/55.4× 240 k/s · 13.3 M/s 1/55.7× 240 k/s · 13.4 M/s 1/522× 23.5 k/s · 12.3 M/s 1/375× 24.5 k/s · 9.2 M/s 1/286× 28.6 k/s · 8.19 M/s
uint64_t not measurednot measurednot measurednot measurednot measured
float 1/357× 37.4 k/s · 13.4 M/s 1/421× 31.7 k/s · 13.4 M/s 1/592× 22.6 k/s · 13.4 M/s 1/630× 10.2 k/s · 6.43 M/s 1/87.8× 19.8 k/s · 1.74 M/s
double 1/153× 37.4 k/s · 5.71 M/s 1/180× 31.7 k/s · 5.69 M/s 1/153× 22.6 k/s · 3.46 M/s 1/206× 10.2 k/s · 2.1 M/s 1/61.6× 19.8 k/s · 1.22 M/s

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