Notes:

**Older 900 series cards may only be available used, so check ebay and Craigslist.

**Cards I’ve left out: Titan X and XP, both a waste of money. GTX 950, 1030, and 1050 (non-Ti), all too slow.

**The overall rank is heavily price weighted, if you have money to burn, buy a few 1080 Ti’s and move on with your life.

**If you’re rendering with Octane , the entire scene will need to be loaded into the video card’s RAM, so cards like the 3GB 1060 and even the 4GB options may be ruled out.

**If you’re planning on only crypto mining or only GPU rendering, don’t use the chart as a guide. There are better cards for each individual task, my goal is build one machine that works well for both.

Conclusion

Depending on your price point and Need for Speed™, some of the winners are the GTX 1070 ($400), 1060 ($200) and the older 980Ti (buy used for ~$300). Keep in mind that both mining and rendering are easily scaleable and become even more cost efficient as more cards are added to a machine.

This could be you!

Lastly, as the prices change and mining difficulty increases, the numbers used in the chart will need to be updated, so download a copy to your own Google Drive. You’ll find the data sources insides and you can paste in the new values.