It’s got an Octane benchmark score of over 1700 – about equal to 2.5 RTX 3090s – for a bit less money (at the time of writing – mid 2020). Thank you eBay! While everyone clamored for the new (and huge!) RTX cards, I threw a bunch of old GPUs together and got the same performance.

Update 2021 – With the rise in the popularity of cryptocurrency I have begun mining with my render rig. Find out how you can too!