I used my old GT 240, GT 610, Radeon HD 4650 and 32 shared Intel cores in the past.
Now it was time to upgrade the GPU power in my mini cluster for a small budget.
I found out low budget doesn't mean low GPU performance at all and low NVIDIA GTX number can be faster than a high GTX number.
For example the GPU power as number cruncher of a GTX 580 are better than GTX 750 etc.
How ever I added more GPU power with 4 used NVIDIA cards for only 70€ !!! 2 x GTX 480 (2*20€=40) and 2 x GTX 570 (2*15€=30)
Note: if you run GPU clusters may be 24 hours per day it makes sense to compare the GPU power per W/power :-)
For example the performance of GTX 750, 570 and 650 Ti Boost are near the same but not the power consumption !
Joshy
Here are the ranking of low budget GTX GPU's take a look how far right my oldies are :-)
(every space to the right is a 10 in performance ranking
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187 GTX 1050 Ti (1GB new 50€) (4GB new 200€)
200 GTX 770
213 GTX 950
218 GTX 1050
245 GTX 580
253 GTX 660 Ti
266 GTX 480
272 GTX 660
275 GTX 750 Ti
284 GTX 570
312 GTX 750
315 GTX 650 Ti Boost
316 GTX 590
325 GTX 470
340 GTX 560 Ti
368 GTX 460 (<--- don't buy the 768MB version if you can get 1-2GB for the same money !)
369 GTX 560
374 GTX 465
388 GTX 650 Ti
393 GTX 950A
405 GTX 460
429 GTX 460 V2
430 GTX 560 SE
446 GTX 460 SE
472 GTX 650
499 GTX 550 Ti
501 GTX 285
794 GT 240 <-- I was so proud if I got this runner
925 GT 610 <-- what a slow grandpa
980 ATI Radeon HD 4650 <--- ATI what a joke ;-)