NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti vs Tesla V100 SMX2

The NVIDIA Tesla V100 SMX2 has better pixel fill rate due to greater number of Raster Operations Pipelines (ROPs), even though its graphics frequency is lower. Having higher pixel fillrate allows the card to draw more pixels on screen and off screen, which is beneficial for some 3D effects in games, or when playing at higher display resolutions.

Even though it has slower graphics clock rate, the NVIDIA Tesla V100 SMX2 comes with more TMUs, which results in better texture fill rate. Better texture fill rate allows the GPU to utilize more sophisticated 3D effects and/or map more textures to each textured picture element, which improves games visual appearance.

Single Precision performance is convenient for estimating card's maximum speed in applications, that process mainly single-precision floating point data. This performance is measured in GFLOPS, which stands for Giga (billions of) Floating Point Operations Per Second. Generally, the faster CUDA cores or stream processors run at, and the more cores / processors the graphics card has, the higher Single Precision performance will be. The NVIDIA Tesla V100 SMX2 GPU is faster here. Higher single-precision performance number means the graphics unit will perform better in general computing applications. Since CUDA cores or stream processors are also used as vertex and geometry shaders for 3D image generation, higher performance is also beneficial to games.

Maximum Double Precision performance is similar to the Single Precision performance, except that it applies to double-precision (64-bit) floating point operations. This characteristic is irrelevant to games performance because games do not use double-precision arithmetics. The NVIDIA Tesla V100 SMX2 graphics card has an edge here.

To speed up processing, the graphics cards store 3D scene data, textures and intermediate data, used for image generation, in on-board memory. The video memory usually has much higher bandwidth than system RAM, and more bandwidth allows the graphics card to run at higher screen resolutions, use larger and more detailed textures, and apply more complex 3D effects and filters. Memory type, speed, and memory interface width all affect the bandwidth value. Specifically, the NVIDIA Tesla V100 SMX2 comes with wider memory bus. Consequently, it has significantly higher memory bandwidth.