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   wolfgang kern to James Harris   
   Re: Memory bandwidth   
   25 Jun 21 18:27:26   
   
   From: nowhere@never.at   
      
   On 25.06.2021 12:59, James Harris wrote:   
   > I don't know about you but I never cease to be amazed by the hardware we   
   > have available. I was looking for some figures on memory bandwidth and   
   > came across this:   
   >   
   >    https://www.forrestthewoods.com/blog/memory-bandwidth-napkin-math/   
   >   
   > There's a bunch of stuff there that's worth a read but perhaps the   
   > headline is that the author says RAM can be accessed at tens of   
   > gigabytes per second!   
   >   
   > Such figures are backed up by   
   >   
   >    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_interface_bit_rates   
   >   
   > so they seem to be correct.   
   >   
   > Mind blowing, isn't it!   
      
   yes, but still a bit too expensive for a normal desktop PC.   
   I'm happy with my 64GB DDR3 RAM and the 8GB DDR5 VRAM. it   
   would need very short lines to achieve the mentioned speed.   
   __   
   wolfgang   
      
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