drm/amdgpu/powerplay: add some documentation about memory clock
We expose the actual memory controller clock rate in Linux, not the effective memory clock of the DRAMs. To translate it, it follows the following formula: Clock conversion (Mhz): HBM: effective_memory_clock = memory_controller_clock * 1 G5: effective_memory_clock = memory_controller_clock * 1 G6: effective_memory_clock = memory_controller_clock * 2 DRAM data rate (MT/s): HBM: effective_memory_clock * 2 = data_rate G5: effective_memory_clock * 4 = data_rate G6: effective_memory_clock * 8 = data_rate Bandwidth (MB/s): data_rate * vram_bit_width / 8 = memory_bandwidth Some examples: G5 on RX460: memory_controller_clock = 1750 Mhz effective_memory_clock = 1750 Mhz * 1 = 1750 Mhz data rate = 1750 * 4 = 7000 MT/s memory_bandwidth = 7000 * 128 bits / 8 = 112000 MB/s G6 on RX5600: memory_controller_clock = 900 Mhz effective_memory_clock = 900 Mhz * 2 = 1800 Mhz data rate = 1800 * 8 = 14400 MT/s memory_bandwidth = 14400 * 192 bits / 8 = 345600 MB/s Acked-by: Evan Quan <evan.quan@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@amd.com>
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