Command-line tool

mbw

brew/mbw

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Memory Bandwidth Benchmark

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Type

Command-line tool

Install on

macOS, Linux

Last checked

25 Oct 2026, 21:09 UTC

Install it

macOS

brew install mbw

Linux

brew install mbw

Run 3 memory bandwidth tests with 512MB size

mbw -n 3 512

Run 3 memory bandwidth tests with 512MB memory size, output only statistics, not averages

mbw -n 3 -q -a 512

Run memcpy test 3 times with 512MB size, only display statistics

mbw -n 3 -q -t0 512

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