Nvidia Tesla K80 Suddenly Very Cheap

[z99o]

I've recently discovered that a formerly very expensive card ($8000 in 2017!) for machine learning and neural network training in servers, the Nvidia Tesla K80, is now $350 on amazon and selling between $150 and $250 used on ebay. Is this an insane untapped deal? Some research into this card indicates that you need your own cooling solution. It also has no video output, so for gaming, would you be able to utilize this card? I'd imagine with how much computing power it has, it would run any modern game very well, (if it's possible). Has anyone tried this out or figured out a way to get this card working in a desktop, even for the original purpose of neural networks?

[Electronics Wizardy]

Its relly not that fast or great of a deal. Its basically  gtx780ti class  card,nd missing many newer fetures, and gonna be. pain to use in a newer build. For most users there are better cards for the money.

[GrockleTD]

3 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

Its relly not that fast or great of a deal. Its basically  gtx780ti class  card,nd missing many newer fetures, and gonna be. pain to use in a newer build. For most users there are better cards for the money.

reality strikes again!

[SkilledRebuilds]

K80 (Pretty sure is used here by Craft Computing)
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGbfidALQauLclCL3d4MWZ8F5krtwToZ3

 

[Letgomyleghoe]

29 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

Its relly not that fast or great of a deal. Its basically  gtx780ti class  card,nd missing many newer fetures, and gonna be. pain to use in a newer build. For most users there are better cards for the money.

Is it good for folding in anyway? I know the cards specialized for tasks besides gaming.

[GrockleTD]

45 minutes ago, Letgomyleghoe said:

Is it good for folding in anyway? I know the cards specialized for tasks besides gaming.

Folding@home doesn't really support quadro/tesla cards because that is not what the majority of people will be using

[Letgomyleghoe]

23 minutes ago, GrockleTD said:

Folding@home doesn't really support quadro/tesla cards because that is not what the majority of people will be using

I know they support the k80, just don’t know if it would be worth it over a 590 or whatnot.

[igormp]

21 hours ago, z99o said:

I've recently discovered that a formerly very expensive card ($8000 in 2017!) for machine learning and neural network training in servers, the Nvidia Tesla K80, is now $350 on amazon and selling between $150 and $250 used on ebay. Is this an insane untapped deal? Some research into this card indicates that you need your own cooling solution. It also has no video output, so for gaming, would you be able to utilize this card? I'd imagine with how much computing power it has, it would run any modern game very well, (if it's possible). Has anyone tried this out or figured out a way to get this card working in a desktop, even for the original purpose of neural networks?

The K80 is really slow for modern standards. Only benefit it has is the power to do full FP64, which none of the non-100 chips have in later chips.

Even for ML purposes it's slow, since the sheer lack of raw power will make it run slower than a 1660, even tho it has way more vram.

19 hours ago, Letgomyleghoe said:

I know they support the k80, just don’t know if it would be worth it over a 590 or whatnot.

it won't. It will be less powerful and consume more power.

[Letgomyleghoe]

12 minutes ago, igormp said:

The K80 is really slow for modern standards. Only benefit it has is the power to do full FP64, which none of the non-100 chips have in later chips.

Even for ML purposes it's slow, since the sheer lack of raw power will make it run slower than a 1660, even tho it has way more vram.

Thank you this is what I was tryna figure out, thought it might be better for folding, but wasn’t quite sure.