Raspberry Pi Pico VS ESP32 S2 speed comparison benchmark using CircuitPython

Raspberry Pi Pico VS ESP32 S2 speed comparison benchmark using CircuitPython

Which board is faster?

🛒 ESP32 S2: http://educ8s.tv/part/esp32s2
🛒 Raspberry Pi Pico: http://educ8s.tv/part/RaspberryPiPico
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🛒 USB Meter: http://educ8s.tv/part/UsbDoctorOLED

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In this video I am going to do a speed comparison between the Raspberry Pi Pico and the ESP32 S2 board, two of the most powerful and inexpensive boards for makers.

Before running the computation speed benchmark, I have developed, let’s take a quick look at the most basic specs of each board to get a sense of what to expect.

The Raspberry Pico board features two 32-bit Arm Cortex M0+ cores operating at 133Mhz. It also offers 264KBs of RAM memory and 2MB of Flash memory and it costs at the time of this recording around $7.
The Lilygo ESP32 S2 Board on the other hand features a single-core 32-bit LX7 microcontroller operating at 240MHz. It also offers 320KBs of RAM memory and 4MBs of Flash memory. Its price today is around $8.
So, based on the specifications, we can conclude that the ESP32 S2 is faster than the Raspberry Pi Pico in single-core workloads. How much faster is the question? We can't know without running a benchmark, because the boards employ processors with different architectures. Based on the operating frequencies of each board, we can estimate that the ESP32 S2 single core performance will be roughly 80% faster than the Raspberry Pi Pico's single core performance. Is this correct?