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Was peak MIPS the PS2 or the N64?
by chasil 1y ago
Was peak MIPS the PS2 or the N64?
- bitwize 1y agoThe SGI Onyx2
- mrpippy 1y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCI_Blue_Mountain https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCI_Blue_Mountain
- nebula8804 1y agoWonder what happened to those computers. Hopefully they were sold on government auction and not scrapped.
- xgkickt 1y agoI certainly miss having COP2 instructions.
- wk_end 1y agoIt's kind of a silly question, but: when the N64 came out in 1996, MIPS CPUs were high-end workstation chips; by the time the PS2 was released in 2000, SGI had effectively declared MIPS a dead-end and was shipping Intel-based machines. So I'd say the N64 wins handily: peak MIPS was a MIPS chip in every living room, powering video games that felt like the future. Even though the PS2 won its generation - and the N64 decidedly did not - that was despite and not because of its technical prowess; it was a less impressive machine than its two closest competitors.
- bombcar 1y agoThat's the whole interesting thing about refighting the console wars; the technologically superior option (which you can argue about itself) rarely if ever really "won".