Processor
MIPS R4300 (Nintendo 64 CPU)
The console's general-purpose processor, running the game as a collection of threads and generating the task lists the Reality Coprocessor executes.
- Manufacturer
- NEC / MIPS Technologies
- Architecture
- MIPS III
- Introduced
- 1996
- Core count
- 1
- Instruction set
- MIPS III
- Record status
- approved
Fitted to
Editorial notes
The programming manual calls it simply the R4300. Unlike the PlayStation's processor it has a TLB and can use virtual addresses. It shares one memory pool with the graphics hardware rather than having main memory to itself.