What gpu-unlock unlocks on GeForce RTX 30 and 40 cards and how much AI speed you gain
gpu-unlock is a Linux kernel module that, before the NVIDIA driver loads, lifts the cap that halves tensor core throughput for FP16 and BF16 with FP32 accumulation on GeForce RTX 30 cards. On an RTX 3090 Ti, BF16 goes from 87.5 to 157.4 TFLOPS; in LLMs the prefill gains, not generation.