GeForce cards ship with their tensor cores capped at half speed for the math most AI training and inference uses. The same silicon sold as a professional card runs at full rate. gpu-unlock is a free Linux tool that removes that cap at boot, before the stock Nvidia driver loads. There is no patched driver and no VBIOS flash.
Here is what you get, how to install it, and the catch.
What you get
- Up to double the raw tensor throughput for FP16, BF16 and TF32 math.
- The project reports 30 to 55% faster image generation, 25 to 50% faster fine-tuning, and 25 to 55% faster LLM prefill.
- Your result depends on how much of your workload uses that math and on your card's power headroom. llama.cpp and Ollama with quantized models see 0 to 15%.
- Games are not expected to get any faster.
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Unlocks: Step 1: check your card · Step 2: install it · The catch · Sources
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