by Billy Tallis on August 13, 2020 9:10 AM EST
"...Intel claims an average of 25% higher bandwidth for Barlow Pass than the initial Apache Pass modules for Cascade Lake Xeons... "
https://www.anandtech.com/show/15972/intel-previews-4layer-3d-xpoint-memory-for-secondgeneration-optane-ssds
Over the last month or so, as a result of a thread on the Optane 900p, I have been experimenting with Optane memory and Primocache.
What was established in the thread was that Optane has very low latency and high performance for low queue depth loads- which generally means that for desktop...
Hexus is reporting that Intel is shipping Optane RAM to partners for testing. This is a good thing for all your memory junkies out there. Intel has been making a big deal about Optane for a while, but we are a good ways off to seeing it in any desktop system for a good while. Hit up the video...