[sgtnoodle]

While I was in the hospital ICU earlier this year, I promised myself I would build a zen 3 desktop when it came out despite my 10 year old desktop still working just fine.

I've since bought all the pieces but the CPU; they are all sold out. So I got a 6 core 3600XT in the interim. I bought fairly high binned RAM and overclocked it to 3600Mhz, and was surprised to cap out at about 36GB/s throughput. Your 6GiB/s per core explanation checks out for me!

[_urga]

Cool! I had a similar empirical experience working on a Cauchy Reed-Solomon encoder awhile back, which is essentially measuring xor speed, but I just couldn't get it past 6 GiB/s per core either, until I guessed I was hitting memory bandwidth limits. Only a few weeks ago I stumbled on the actual formula to work it out!