GeForce RTX Firmware Hack Unlocks Up to 2X AI Compute — SkimNews
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- Modders used a firmware exploit to remove a half-speed AI throttle from GeForce RTX 20, 30 and 40-series GPUs, unlocking compute gains of up to 2X.
- RTX 4090 sees its peak tensor rate doubled by the exploit, while matrix math on the RTX 3090 Ti rises by as much as 80%.
Why it matters: The modder community gains a firmware route around the half-speed AI limit, but the benefit is model-dependent: the RTX 4090 reaches twice its prior peak tensor rate, while the RTX 3090 Ti gains up to 80% in matrix math. The 2X framing therefore fits the 4090 more closely than every supported card.
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