bandwidth

bandwidth is an open source artificial benchmark tool for measuring memory bandwidth, useful for identifying a computer's weak areas.

It tests several types of memory:

- Main memory read accesses
- Main memory write accesses
- Level 2 cache read accesses
- Level 2 cache write accesses
- Framebuffer read accesses
- Framebuffer write accesses
- String library routines

What is new in this release:

• This version adds a minor fix.

What is new in version 0.32k:

• A little support for AVX.

What is new in version 0.32f:

• A little support for AVX.

What is new in version 0.30 Alpha:

• This release adds printing of cache information for Intel processors.

What is new in version 0.26c:

• fixes an issue with AMD processors.

What is new in version 0.25a:

• The network bandwidth testing bidirectional was made.
• A command line option was added for the port number with which to perform the test.

What is new in version 0.24c:

• added network bandwidth testing

What is new in version 0.24a:

• This version adds network bandwidth testing.

What is new in version 0.23a:

• A memory copy test, vector register transfer tests, and more!