Bandwidth vs. sampling rate of DAC
The bandwidth of a DAC is related to the analog filtering on the output. Most often (and in your example), this is specified as the 3 dB point of the analog filters that are part of the DAC. They are there to reject the Nyquist images of the signal that are part of the digital signal spectrum. Analog filters are not usually sharp enough to reject the first image you don't want while retaining the high frequencies of the baseband image that you might want to retain. For this reason, the 3 dB point starts a bit earlier to ensure that the required attenuation can be reached at the first folding band. Trying to output a signal with frequency components higher than this point will result in those components undergoing significant attenuation (resulting in a distorted output signal). Usually, one desires spectral flatness in the passband (low distortion of the time domain signal). In this case, it is recommended to oversample by at least 4 or 8 times (although the actual required amount is application specific). The bandwidth is important. In your example, if you are using a 64 GS/s DAC and want to use it to output signals higher than (or even close to) 15 GHz, then your signals will be output with significant attenuation.