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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              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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