r/LocalLLaMA July 13, 2026 · Communities

I benchmarked 15 "E-Waste" GPUs with Modern Workloads

I've spent the last year building GPU coolers and a custom benchmarking tool to figure out if decommissioned NVIDIA enterprise GPUs have any use with modern workloads. Cards like the P100 (16GB) are going for around $75 and the V100 (16GB) for under $200. Combined with dirt-cheap X99 Xeon motherboards, they are a massi