• R5000: High-performance concurrent floating point and integer operations; Streamlined 3D geometry calculations with multiply/add instructions; Large, fast, on-chip caches.
• R10000: Supercomputer performance for applications demanding high levels of processing capabilities and large 3D models; Bottleneck elimination: out-of-order execution & branch prediction; High-bandwidth, non-blocking cache system reduces memory latency for maximized application performance.

Primary Features:

• R5000 SC:
  • 2-way superscalar 64-bit architecture
  • MIPS IV instruction set
  • 32KB instruction cache
  • 32KB primary cache
  • 512KB and 1 MB secondary cache
    

• R10000 SC:
  • 4-way superscalar 64-bit architecture
    
  • Out-of-order instruction execution
  • 5 separate execution units
    
  • 128-bit dedicated secondary cache bus
    
  • MIPS IV instruction set
  • 32KB instruction cache
  • 32KB primary cache
  • 1 MB non-blocking secondary cache