GPU Unlock reportedly boosts RTX 3090 Ti compute by nearly 80%

An open-source project called GPU Unlock reportedly lets NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti graphics cards access higher FP16 and BF16 compute performance on Linux. The capabilities are typically reserved for professional workstation GPUs, according to Wccftech.

The report says the tool bypasses software-level restrictions on consumer GeForce cards. It attributes the project to a developer using the name “zagitta.” The supplied report summary says the RTX 3090 Ti’s BF16 performance rises from 87.5 to 157 TFLOPS, though it gives the starting figure elsewhere as “87.5 FLOPS.” That unit discrepancy is unclear.

The summary also says vLLM inference speeds improve by up to 36%. These are reported results; the supplied information does not include testing details or independent verification. GPU Unlock is described as open source, but no repository or license details were provided.