Optimizing Memory Bandwidth...

I thought that this might be worth sharing.

<A HREF="http://cdrom.amd.com/devconn/events/AMD_block_prefetch_paper.pdf" target="_new">Text format in PDF.</A>

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<A HREF="http://cdrom.amd.com/devconn/events/gdc_2002_amd.pdf" target="_new">Slide format in PDF.</A>

<b>"If I melt dry ice in a bathtub, can I take a bath without getting wet?" - Steven Wright</b>

Yup me too.

I understand the theory, but not the application.

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One thing I wonder is, why does Sandra not even max out the bandwidth tests results? Look at the P4 at 400MHZ FSB and mem, it never even got 3200MB/sec in Sandra. Makes you wonder if it's ever using its bandwidth to the max!

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Theoretical vs. actual. The bandwidth is needed. There was an article in IEEE spectrum, a while ago that show why some experts are saying that if ddr2 doesn't come soon it will be useless as processor demand for bandwidth is greater then ddr2 offers (within a year now). Bandwidth should grow with speed, but it hasn't. It is lagging behind. A benchmark may show that the processor doesn't use all the bandwidth because that is a theoretical limit not observable. If a processor is that close to its limit then it will benefit from more bandwidth.