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by charcircuit 75 days ago
VRAM on the n64 is notoriously slow.
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It's RAM that is notoriously slow. VRAM is fast, but there's only 4K...
That 4K buffer is not VRAM. The 4/8MB of RAM is also used as VRAM.
Well, it’s texture RAM, the only one that RDP can access. It’s closest thing to « video memory ». Although, you’re right as the framebuffer lives in main ram. But that just means the system is sharing like in modern hardware, so I wouldn’t call the main RAM VRAM in any way.