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by jpc0 602 days ago
Since were being pedantic. Is that 2^10 bits or 10^3 bits per MB?
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AMD writes MB, and they list the faster caches' sizes in KByte, where indeed I think it should be Mi and Ki respectively. And in the NV space (hdds, ssds) a GB means 10^9. Reminds me of DDR vendors telling us that memory runs at 8GHz (8GT/s, 4GHz in reality).
If we are being padantic 1 MB is 10^6 bytes. 1 MiB would be 2^20
I thought of that soon after my comment but I felt my point was made even better because of the bad maths