Yup. General comments to the folks reading this from home: For machine learning, you'll want as much RAM on the GPU as possible. I can't recommend a 2GB GPU

Yup. General comments to the folks reading this from home: For machine learning, you'll want as much RAM on the GPU as possible. I can't recommend a 2GB GPU card. 4GB cards can be less than $140, and then there is a jump in price to the 8GB cards (6GB cards aren't cheaper enough to consider, in my opinion). Check that your power supply has the extra PCIe 8-pin power connector, though some of the GTX 10xx series cards don't require any additional power. 8GB system RAM minimum is also what I'd recommend. Some NN applications can benefit significantly from a faster CPU, even though it is mostly running on the GPU. For example, for training a Caffe model, an Ivy Bridge i7 was vastly superior to a Kaby Lake i3, using the same GPU card.