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Nvidia’s Scarcity Is a Firmware Setting

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Nvidia's Scarcity Is a Firmware Setting A GitHub developer just proved that Nvidia's RTX 3090 carries the same tensor core hardware as a professional A6000 — the company simply throttles FP16 and BF16 instruction issue rates in firmware. The open-source gpu-unlock kernel module, released on October…

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  1. 2026-10-25 04:43 · DEV Community — Machine Learning
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