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RandyOrion • today at 8:17 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

As a person who uses consumer level hardware to do neural network research, this unlock is truly INVALUABLE.

This unlock is super useful as it improves the GPU performance on computation-bounded neural network workloads like LLM prefilling, image/video generation, and general neural network training, in a way of disabling deliberate software segmentation on the same hardware imposed by Nvidia.

I'm on rtx 50 series, and no free performance uplifting for now. Waiting for more reverse engineering efforts to reveal whether the unlock is possible for 50 series.


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Zagitta • today at 8:51 PM

I wouldn't hold my breath for 50 series, hopper & blackwell has a different boot architecture with more security layers