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I don’t think you can assume that gyro drift / zero offset is going to be stable on any of these devices across temperatures.
If you want the lowest possible gyro drift then you have to measure and calibrate manually or use any available built-in calibration, e.g. the MPU9250 has an option that can auto calibrate the gyro (DMP_FEATURE_GYRO_CAL) when using the DMP (on-chip sensor fusion).
I don’t think you can assume that gyro drift / zero offset is going to be stable on any of these devices across temperatures.
If you want the lowest possible gyro drift then you have to measure and calibrate manually or use any available built-in calibration, e.g. the MPU9250 has an option that can auto calibrate the gyro (DMP_FEATURE_GYRO_CAL) when using the DMP (on-chip sensor fusion).