>that time when consoles were more cutting edge than PCs

>>57951682

It's not a valid comparison, the chipset was also very hard to program, caches were tiny and its not like you could use a general purpose GPU compiler to target it

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_64_programming_characteristics

which is why are are unfathomably more games u could play on that Voodoo card than the 64

>>57951803
>caches were tiny

The Voodoo didn't even have a texture cache

>>57951682
The Voodoo was just a supporting 3D accelerator, lots of the graphics computations were still done on the CPU and main GPU you needed.

>>57951875

it wasn't an actual "caching cache", it was just some memory with a lookup table you had to manually program

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality_Coprocessor

>>57951993
It wasn't like a CPU cache, no. But it was a place where you could store textures to make tiling faster. You could use whatever format of texture that would fit into 4 KB of memory.

If you wanted to use texture look-up tables (TLUT) for palette tricks, then you could do that too, but it was optional.

By the way, the Wikipedia sources on N64 hardware are extremely poorly researched and often incorrect.