Could be, but standard usage of the term applied to memory is 2^x. If SiSoft isn't using standard notation they should note it. Something does look fishy, here. SiSoft notes in their documentation that 95% is the highest bandwidth that can be expected, as opposed to the 102% reported by the benchmark. SiSoft also thanks Intel, AMD, and others for sending code "optimizations" to be used in the benchmark.
megabyte
Also see Kilo, mega, giga, tera, peta, and all that.
1) As a measure of computer processor storage and real and virtual memory, a megabyte (abbreviated MB) is 2 to the 20th power bytes, or 1,048,576 bytes in decimal notation.
2) According to the IBM Dictionary of Computing, when used to describe disk storage capacity and transmission rates, a megabyte is 1,000,000 bytes in decimal notation.
According to the Microsoft Press Computer Dictionary, a megabyte means either 1,000,000 bytes or 1,048,576 bytes.
According to Eric S. Raymond in The New Hacker's Dictionary, a megabyte is always 1,048,576 bytes on the argument that bytes should naturally be computed in powers of two.
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You might want to go to SiSoft's page, and look through their faq's.
Here is an excerpt in which they apply the 2^x definition to memory:
xMB/a b c PCd-e (e.g. 256MB/16 ECC PC800-45)
x - Module size in Mbytes on the module.
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