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by trott 1988 days ago
> But you still lose something, e.g. if you use half precision on V100 you get virtually double speed, if you do on a 1080 / 2080 you get... nothing because it's not supported.

That's not true. FP16 is supported and can be fast on 2080, although some frameworks fail to see the speed-up. I filed a bug report about this a year ago: https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/issues/17665

What consumer GPUs lack is ECC and fast FP64.