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Its pretty hard to find people that go in-depth enough to mention the phenomenon. Wendel sorta covered it in this thread:

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Basically you want the memory latency to remain low as more bandwidth is used up. In this example, the latency of the memory increased by ~20% as peak bandwidth is approached, which is pretty decent:

In this example the memory latency increased by ~280% as peak bandwidth is approached which is not good and will cause all kinds of slow downs that can be hard to diagnose:

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