[Discussion] Choosing GPU for Machine/Deep Learning • r/MachineLearning

Hello all, my first post here, nice to meet you! I'm working currently as a backend developer, but I have started to read about all this machine learning stuff - it is going crazy all around job markets - and was thinking about switching, as it should not be hard to learn the stuff (I've got math background). I've read that this kind of science use GPUs a lot to speed up the computations. Right now I am about to build a new home PC and I though I could use new GPU not only for games and cracking neighbours wifi password, but also to learn some ML/DL. I have an opportunity to buy AMD rx 580 (8 GB) card with considerable good price (even in the cryptocurrency mining craze) - it seemed to me as a good choice, considering open source drivers (Linux user) and performance.