When I say K80, I mean running a GPU in the cloud, not running it locally (and as an aside, due to the crypto boom, buying a physical GPU for cheap is more difficult)
A nice compromise is the GTX1080 that you can rent at Hetzner for 100e/month [0]. I am not sure how it compares to other GPUs but for experimenting it works quite well.
It's actually 118e/month (the price on the webiste are excluding VAT).
I'm using it, and I can only recommend - 0 problems, pretty decent box for a low price. Great solution, and waiting for the crypto bubble to burst and GPU prices to fall !
oh yeah. what i meant was that as k80 s are old, they don't have the fancy features like being fast with fp16, which came later. k80 come from slightly before the deep learning explosion afaik
