Best performance per dollar of all the cards I investigated. I am using it for number crunching, so (# streaming multiprocessors * GHz Boost) / $ is my metric. Card is quiet under full load, and runs fine in a PCIe Gen2 slot. Plus you can actually find them for sale, unlike many of the high end RTX cards. My only complaint is the Asus site does not have Linux drivers, only Windows. So I had to install it from the Ubuntu repo.