Benchmarking 15 E-Waste GPUs with Modern AI Workloads

Benchmarking 15 "E-Waste" GPUs with Modern Workloads

I spent a year testing decommissioned NVIDIA Tesla GPUs like the K80, P100, and V100 to see if they can handle modern AI tasks. Despite being end-of-life and power-hungry, these affordable cards run LLMs and computer vision models surprisingly well when paired with custom cooling and older software stacks. My goal was to build an inexpensive homelab node, proving that you don't always need the latest hardware to experiment with cutting-edge technology.

"It is irresponsible to suggest these cards be used today... is the kind of finger wagging that has no place in homelabbing."