PIC18F57Q84 vs Pi Pico
PIC18F (PIC18F57Q84) at 64 MHz against Cortex-M0+ (RP2040) at 200 MHz, on real hardware, same C kernels, clocks verified.
PIC18F57Q84
PIC18F (PIC18F57Q84)
- Family
- PIC / dsPIC
- Board
- PIC18F57Q84 Curiosity Nano
- Clock
- 64 MHz
- float / double
- 32-bit / 32-bit
Pi Pico
Cortex-M0+ (RP2040)
- Family
- Arm Cortex-M
- Board
- Pi Pico
- Clock
- 200 MHz
- float / double
- 32-bit / 64-bit
Typical gap
60.5×
Pi Pico faster, geometric mean of 25 cells
Biggest win for PIC18F57Q84
0.04×
uint8_t multiply
Biggest win for Pi Pico
508×
uint32_t multiply
Clock for clock
19.4×
Pi Pico needs fewer cycles per op (3.13× clock gap)
Operation by operation
Every cell
How many times faster PIC18F57Q84 is than Pi Pico, operations per second. Blue: PIC18F57Q84 ahead. Orange: Pi Pico ahead.
| Add | Subtract | Multiply | Divide | Modulo | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| uint8_t | 1/25.2× 538 k/s · 13.5 M/s | 1/28.8× 504 k/s · 14.5 M/s | 1/24.4× 520 k/s · 12.7 M/s | 1/35.3× 135 k/s · 4.78 M/s | 1/45.0× 106 k/s · 4.78 M/s |
| uint16_t | 1/32.5× 328 k/s · 10.7 M/s | 1/32.5× 328 k/s · 10.7 M/s | 1/39.2× 287 k/s · 11.3 M/s | 1/76.8× 62.1 k/s · 4.77 M/s | 1/67.6× 70.6 k/s · 4.77 M/s |
| uint32_t | 1/47.0× 240 k/s · 11.3 M/s | 1/47.0× 240 k/s · 11.3 M/s | 1/508× 23.5 k/s · 11.9 M/s | 1/210× 24.5 k/s · 5.14 M/s | 1/180× 28.6 k/s · 5.14 M/s |
| uint64_t | not measured | not measured | not measured | not measured | not measured |
| float | 1/57.8× 37.4 k/s · 2.16 M/s | 1/63.2× 31.7 k/s · 2 M/s | 1/109× 22.6 k/s · 2.45 M/s | 1/197× 10.2 k/s · 2.01 M/s | 1/57.6× 19.8 k/s · 1.14 M/s |
| double | 1/42.8× 37.4 k/s · 1.6 M/s | 1/46.7× 31.7 k/s · 1.48 M/s | 1/45.1× 22.6 k/s · 1.02 M/s | 1/90.8× 10.2 k/s · 926 k/s | 1/37.1× 19.8 k/s · 734 k/s |