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MWB

Reputation: 12597

How to calculate the theoretically maximal CPU-RAM bandwidth?

CUDA (GPGPU) programmers are taught early on to measure their programs' bandwidth to see if they come close to the theoretical maximum (which can be looked up in the GPU spec or measured using standard utilities).

This is obviously useful for programs that are memory bandwidth-bound.

Is there a way to calculate the theoretically maximal CPU-RAM bandwidth instead (considering that typical setups are multi-DIMM and multi-core, and sometimes multi-socket)?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 2574

Answers (1)

Florent DUGUET
Florent DUGUET

Reputation: 2916

You may find some relevant information in ark.intel.com, for example, on the core i7-6700K, the site reads a bandwidth of 34.1 GB/s, which is 8(bits/Transactions)*2(memory channels)*2.133GT/s(transactions of the RAM module) = 34.128 GB/s.

For more recent processors, not all information is available, but you may find it: Core i9-9980XE has 8*4*2.666 = 85.312 GB/s peak bandwidth.

This is assuming the optimal DDR4 memory module is installed.

Piriform's speccy tool can provide you with this hardware information on the RAM menu:

In this case, two slots with 2133 GT/s with two channels = 34.1GB/s.

Upvotes: 3

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