What happens when DRAM has more bandwidth than Layer 3 cache?

By: Peter E. fry (pfry.delete@this.tailbone.net), December 8, 2022 8:20 am
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Etienne (etienne_lorrain.delete@this.yahoo.fr) on December 8, 2022 6:20 am wrote:
> Looks like my AMD Ryzen 9 7950x has a L3 cache bandwidth of 63.9 GB/s, my current DRAM DDR5
> has either 49.6 GB/s (Jedec) or 52.5 GB/s (AMD Expo) measured by memtest86 UEFI.
[...]

(PassMark) MemTest's bandwidth reporting seems heavily dependent on core memory port resources and may be sensitive to NUMA effects. For example, my 3600X reports ~25GB/s and 16GB/s for L3 and RAM respectively, while my 5650GE reports ~85 and 35. Both DDR3-3200 ECC, JEDEC timing, 1R Micron and 2R Hynix respectively. Interesting, but chances are those results will not answer any other question than "What is PassMark's MemTest86 bandwidth number?". Anything more useful would be... unwieldy to quote.
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What happens when DRAM has more bandwidth than Layer 3 cache?Etienne2022/12/08 06:20 AM
  What happens when DRAM has more bandwidth than Layer 3 cache?Simon Farnsworth2022/12/08 07:22 AM
    bandwidth*delay productMichael S2022/12/08 08:06 AM
    What happens when DRAM has more bandwidth than Layer 3 cache?---2022/12/08 10:44 AM
      What happens when DRAM has more bandwidth than Layer 3 cache?blaine2022/12/08 05:07 PM
  What happens when DRAM has more bandwidth than Layer 3 cache?Michael S2022/12/08 07:32 AM
    What happens when DRAM has more bandwidth than Layer 3 cache?Etienne2022/12/08 08:05 AM
      What happens when DRAM has more bandwidth than Layer 3 cache?Michael S2022/12/08 08:13 AM
        What happens when DRAM has more bandwidth than Layer 3 cache?Etienne2022/12/08 01:56 PM
  What happens when DRAM has more bandwidth than Layer 3 cache?Peter E. fry2022/12/08 08:20 AM
  Programs do not see bandwidth. Programs only see latency. Heikki Kultala2022/12/08 08:26 AM
    Programs do not see bandwidth. Programs only see latency. Chester2022/12/08 11:07 AM
  What happens when DRAM has more bandwidth than Layer 3 cache?Doug S2022/12/08 09:31 AM
  What happens when DRAM has more bandwidth than Layer 3 cache?---2022/12/08 10:32 AM
    What happens when DRAM has more bandwidth than Layer 3 cache?Michael S2022/12/08 02:42 PM
      What happens when DRAM has more bandwidth than Layer 3 cache?---2022/12/08 03:54 PM
        What happens when DRAM has more bandwidth than Layer 3 cache?Anon2022/12/20 06:46 AM
  What happens when DRAM has more bandwidth than Layer 3 cache?Andrey2022/12/08 03:10 PM
    What happens when DRAM has more bandwidth than Layer 3 cache?Etienne2022/12/14 03:20 AM
  What happens when DRAM has more bandwidth than Layer 3 cache?Gionatan Danti2022/12/09 12:31 AM
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