it'll work, it does indeed support OpenCL 1.2.

but it's quite an old card, and will use a lot of power. i'd recommend looking into newer generations within your budget. Pascal or newer.

I'm aware of the situation.

even at elevated prices. a 1060 6gb should only be about $300. not that I'd pay that much, but that's around what they're going for on used parts markets like reddit r/hardwareswap.

but better to not buy anything than over pay for a 7 year old card like the Tesla K80.

This is NOT Newegg. This is 3rd party sellers using Newegg's platform. Always pay attention to the actual seller. You'll see the same stuff on Amazon or any site that allows 3rd party sellers to use their platform. 3rd party sellers can name their price, but that doesn't mean they are actually selling anything at that price. No one in their right mind will buy a 1060 for $900. They are just hoping to take advantage of someone who doesn't know any better. Newegg doesn't and won't/can't list nearly any 10-series card because they are 2 generations old and out of production and they just don't have any more new stock.



you used to be able to get these Kepler series Teslas for super cheap because they are so old and the current gen cards are just way more efficient and powerful. so the demand was fairly low when you could buy say a 1070 and outperform the tesla K* with less cost and less power used because most projects didnt care about FP64 performance (only exception is Milkyway).

you could never really get the T4 for less than $2000 though. even used ones are still ~1800 on ebay, not exactly an option for someone looking for a $300 card. it's a great card though. small form factor, single slot, roughly RTX 2060/2060S/2070 performance with only 75W and no external power required.

I think another factor is pushing card prices up. Modern cars. There's a huge demand for memory and processors to support huge touchscreen consoles, whizzy graphics, games, etc. Not to mention all the AI systems. Many big brand car makers have been struggling to get all kinds of chips, to the point that some have shut/slowed down production lines due to chip supply problems.

It's a seller's market and I think if you own a FAB plant at present you can pretty much do the same as the card suppliers on ebay, newegg etc. i.e. Set an outrageous price for manufacturing the chips you need and then wait for the desperate to come with their wallets open.