- RCP (chip)
RCP stands for Reality (immersion) Co-Processor.
It is the heart of the
Nintendo 64 next to the MIPS 4300i. It was developed by SGI specially for Nintendo, and little is known about it, and the way it works.The RCP features a
vector processor that can perform over 500,000,000arithmetic operation s per second, making it a very powerfulchip in raw processing power, compared to Intel's processors at the time.It handles the audio and video of the Nintendo 64 and can perform very well in operations such as: real-time edge
anti-aliasing , high frame-rate on complex images, automatic load-management, advancedtexture mapping , real-timedepth buffering , etc.In general, what made the Nintendo 64 more advanced than other
video game console s of its time, was mainly the RCP.
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