at the era of deep learning, no one is impressed by their 500 summations of multiply adds, or 1 million multiply adds.
A geforce 1080ti does 11.3 TFlops, with a T, that's 11 300 000 000 000 floating point operations per second..
Just cos you've got enough grunt to do it the dumb way doesn't mean the smarts that produced this are somehow unimpressive.