Memory bandwidth (Whole system) over time
Peak or measured transfer rate. Theoretical bus bandwidth and benchmarked bandwidth belong to different comparability groups.
- Device scope
- whole-system
- Method
- Theoretical peak
- Plotted in
- bytes per second
Chart
26 figures from 25 machines, spanning 1996 to 2025. The lowest memory bandwidth here is 500 MB/s (Nintendo 64, 1996) and the highest is 3.35 TB/s (NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPU (SXM), 2022). That is a range of about 6700× within one comparability group; the figures are plotted in B/s. Points use the release date of the machine the figure belongs to. The table below lists absent figures with their recorded reasons.
Data
| Machine | Released | Figure | Confidence | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nintendo 64 | June 1996 | 500 MB/s | Derived provisional | |
| Sega Dreamcast | November 1998 | 800 MB/s | Derived | |
| NVIDIA GeForce 256 DDR 32 MiB reference card | October 1999 | 4.800 GB/s | Theoretical provisional | |
| NVIDIA GeForce 256 SDR 32 MiB reference card | October 1999 | 2.656 GB/s | Theoretical provisional | |
| Sony PlayStation 2 | March 2000 | 3.2 GB/s | Derived | |
| ATI Radeon 9700 Pro | August 2002 | 19.8 GB/s | Derived | |
| NVIDIA GeForce 6800 Ultra | April 2004 | 35 GB/s | Derived provisional | |
| NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTX | November 2006 | 86.4 GB/s | Derived provisional | |
| Sony PlayStation 3 | November 2006 | 25.6 GB/s | Derived provisional | |
| NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 | November 2010 | 192.4 GB/s | Derived provisional | |
| NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti | November 2013 | 336 GB/s | Derived provisional | |
| Sony PlayStation 4 | November 2013 | 176 GB/s | Derived provisional | |
| NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 | May 2016 | 320 GB/s | Derived | |
| NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti | September 2018 | 616 GB/s | Derived | |
| Apple iPhone 12 | October 2020 | 34.13 GB/s | Theoretical provisional | |
| Apple Mac mini (M1, 2020) | November 2020 | 68.25 GB/s | Theoretical provisional | |
| Sony PlayStation 5 | November 2020 | 448 GB/s | Derived provisional | |
| NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPU (SXM) | 2022 | 3.35 TB/s | Derived | |
| NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 | October 2022 | 1008 GB/s | Derived | |
| AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX | December 2022 | 960 GB/s | Derived | |
| Apple iPhone 15 Pro | September 2023 | 51.2 GB/s | Theoretical provisional | |
| Apple Mac mini (M4, 2024) | November 2024 | 120 GB/s | Vendor-rated | |
| NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 | January 2025 | 1792 GB/s | Derived | |
| Nintendo Switch 2 Docked mode | June 2025 | 102.4 GB/s | Theoretical provisional | |
| Apple iPhone 17 | September 2025 | 68.26 GB/s | Theoretical provisional | |
| Apple iPhone 17 Pro | September 2025 | 76.8 GB/s | Theoretical provisional | |
| 3dfx Voodoo Graphics | November 1996 | unknown No reviewed source establishes this figure for a Voodoo Graphics board. | not plotted | — |
| Apple iPhone (1st generation) | June 2007 | unknown No source consulted states a memory bandwidth, a bus width or a memory clock for this machine. The one analysis that opens the package describes the memory as 128 MB of DDR on the same die and stops there. | not plotted | — |
| Apple iPhone 3GS | June 2009 | unknown Apple publishes neither a memory-interface width nor a memory transfer rate for this phone. | not plotted | — |
| Apple iPhone 4 | June 2010 | unknown Apple publishes neither a memory-interface width nor a memory transfer rate for this phone. | not plotted | — |
| Apple iPhone 5s | September 2013 | unknown Apple publishes neither a memory-interface width nor a memory transfer rate for this phone. | not plotted | — |
| Apple iPhone 6s | September 2015 | unknown Apple publishes neither a memory-interface width nor a memory transfer rate for this phone. | not plotted | — |
| Apple iPhone X | November 2017 | unknown Apple publishes neither a memory-interface width nor a memory transfer rate for this phone. | not plotted | — |
| Raspberry Pi 5 | October 2023 | unknown The product brief names LPDDR4X-4267 but publishes no comparable memory-interface width or system bandwidth. | not plotted | — |
Why this chart holds one group only
Every point on a chart is implicitly compared with every other point on it. This chart uses one comparability group: one metric, one device scope, one method . There is no chart of all clock frequencies over time because they are not one quantity.
Points use the release date of the machine a figure belongs to, including figures recorded against a part. A release date applies only to a machine that shipped. What this metric measures.