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No, that's not the only thing. Other characteristics of V100 that may be interesting to people buying GPUs for data centers: - higher capacity GPU memory. 108
by rrss 6y ago
No, that's not the only thing.
Other characteristics of V100 that may be interesting to people buying GPUs for data centers:
- higher capacity GPU memory. 1080 has 8 GB, V100 has 16 or 32 GB.
- higher bandwidth GPU memory. V100 has HBM2 with a peak of 900 GB/s, 1080 has G5X with a peak of ~300 GB/s.
- ECC support.
- data center certification + warranty
(The geforce warranty covers normal consumer usage, like gaming, and does not cover datacenter use)
- availability of enterprise support contracts.
(If you are buying a ton of GPUs to put in a datacenter, you probably don't want to end up on the normal consumer support line when something goes wrong)
- fast fp64
There are probably others
- littlestymaar 6y agoThanks, that makes much more sense!
- Firadeoclus 6y agoA GTX1080 manages about ~9 TFLOPS(fp32) (and has terrible fp16 support), where V100 gets ~15 TFLOPS(fp16), ~30 TFLOPS(fp16), and ~120 TFLOPS(tensor cores). Apart from one being a gaming product and the other being designed for computational tasks, they're a generation apart and have various small differences that may be quite relevant for individual tasks (such as V100 allowing twice the shared memory - 96 KiB - per thread block)