How to Make Money by Renting Out Your Computer’s GPU

A few months ago, we wrote a post on how you can make easy money renting out your computer’s banwidth. Today, we’re going to show you how to rent out an even more valuable asset- your GPU, which stands for Graphics processing unit. The GPU enables a computer to process many pieces of data simultaneously, making them useful for editing movies, deep learning, mining cryptocurrences and of course, gaming applications.

The growth in demand for these services has pushed the need for GPU power to new heights. This poses a problem referred to as “the GPU Cloud Gap”. An increasingly large amount of industries are competing for this limited resource. This has enabled centralized data centers like AWS (Amazon Web Services) to boost their prices as they try to meet this demand with expansion. However, there are now peer-to-peer platforms that assist you in putting your idle computer’s GPU to work and make a solid amount of money in the process.

In our Bandwidth post, we mentioned how you can rent out both your bandwidth and your GPU on Fluidstack. In this post, we’re going to talk about another 5 platforms that specialize in GPU: RNDR, QuantumCloud, Vectordash, Vast and Golem. Each platform has their own specialties, but all require a powerful…