Other CMP cards and other NVIDIA GPUs

Scope. This page collects what the cmpunlocker Discord said about cards that are not the CMP 170HX: the other CMP mining models, the A100 that the 170HX is cut from, and unlock projects for GeForce and other NVIDIA cards. Nothing on this page is CMP 170HX unlock work unless the entry says so. The wiki is about the 170HX; these notes are here because the questions keep coming, and they are thinner than the 170HX pages. For the 170HX itself start at Which card do I have, 8 GB card and 10 GB card. The Discord export behind this page starts on 2026-10-04, so older talk about these cards is missing.

Other CMP cards

Reported NVIDIA's open kernel module source lists the other CMP models by PCI device ID: CMP 50HX 1E09, CMP 40HX 1F0B, CMP 30HX 2189, CMP 90HX 220D and CMP 70HX 248A. The CMP 170HX (20C2 and 2082) is not in that table. Source: repo github.com/NVIDIA/open-gpu-kernel-modules by NVIDIA on GitHub

Theory On 2026-10-07 a member asked the cmpunlocker maintainer about unlocks for the other CMP models ("I know a number are already out"); there was no answer in the export. Source: @tekfabii, 2026-10-07

CMP 90HX

The CMP model the Discord talks about most after the 170HX. It is a 10 GB GDDR6X card and a different chip from the 10 GB 170HX; do not confuse the two (see Which card do I have#Cards that are not a normal 170HX). Source: @javicabrera_30495, 2026-10-18
Source: @xeax, 2026-10-18

What it is

Reported
The 90HX is built like an RTX 3080: "3080 which cmp90 is based on has 320W". Source: @emogop, 2026-10-13 An unlocked 90HX is 3090-level compute but keeps its 10 GB. Source: @javicabrera_30495, 2026-10-18 Another owner puts it at nearly the same performance as a 3080. It is 2.5 slots wide, so plan the spacing: one of his cards is starved of air on an open frame. Source: @lenxtroz, 2026-10-13
Source: @lenxtroz, 2026-10-13

PCIe: capacitors and the mod driver

Reported
Like the 170HX, the 90HX ships with the capacitors on the PCIe lines missing. Without them it runs PCIe 2.0 x4; with them x16. @emogop had a local technician fit his. Source: @emogop, 2026-10-13
Source: @emogop, 2026-10-13 PCIe 2.0 comes through a modified driver; without it his card showed Code 43. The modified driver uses the usual signing, not test signing. Source: @emogop, 2026-10-13
Source: @emogop, 2026-10-13
Source: @emogop, 2026-10-13 Asked on 2026-10-16 whether PCIe 4.0 was unlocked, @giaki3003 thought the highest is still 2.0. Source: @legitsplit, 2026-10-16
Source: @giaki3003, 2026-10-16 @ob88594: "PCIe 3.0 cracking is not yet complete". Source: @ob88594, 2026-10-13 For the 170HX version of the capacitor mod see PCIe x16 capacitor mod.

Power and VRAM cooling

Reported
The modified driver also lets you raise the power limit. The ceiling is 300 or 320 W, "apparently it's a hardware limit of that card". GPU temperatures are good; VRAM temperatures are not. Source: @emogop, 2026-10-13
Source: @emogop, 2026-10-13
Source: @emogop, 2026-10-13 With the stock pads the VRAM easily goes past 100 C. @emogop replaced the thermal pads on the VRAM with a copper or aluminium plate, with no insulation layer, and calls the plate mod and the capacitor mod both a must on a 90HX. The plate cost about 9 USD on the Russian AliExpress site; another member found the same part for about 20 USD on the global site. Source: @emogop, 2026-10-13
Source: @emogop, 2026-10-13
Source: @emogop, 2026-10-13
Source: @emogop, 2026-10-13
Source: @lenxtroz, 2026-10-13

Memory and SMs

Reported The 90HX has no memory to unlock; the only route is a manual upgrade with newer memory packages. Source: @programmerboi, 2026-10-25
Source: @programmerboi, 2026-10-25 For 20 GB you need a 3090 PCB plus ten more GDDR6X chips soldered on, the same as the RTX 3080 20 GB mod. Source: @xeax, 2026-10-18
Theory No SM unlock for the 90HX has been shown. Asked whether it could reach RTX 3080 SM counts, @scallion_9883 answered that GA102 and later consumer Ampere has no RIR (it is "a holdover from turing"), so an unlock would have to go through the floorsweep (FF) path, the same position as the 170HX 8 GB card; @matstatman suggested first looking for disabled GPCs or TPCs. Source: @emogop, 2026-10-17
Source: @matstatman, 2026-10-17
Source: @scallion_9883, 2026-10-17
Source: @scallion_9883, 2026-10-17 @emogop was told his card has no RIR records. Source: @emogop, 2026-10-18 An AI-written comparison table claimed a 90HX can be modified to all 84 SMs; @emogop had seen no such release, and its author said that row came from his AI and may be wrong. Source: @emogop, 2026-10-18
Source: @xeax, 2026-10-18 See Full SM unlock for how the 170HX does it.
Reported Tensor rate: the speed-select fuses that cap FP16/BF16 math with FP32 accumulate read 0x5 on the 90HX and 0x1 on an RTX 3090. Source: @green_dam, 2026-10-20 The "free 3090 speedup hack" from Reddit works on a 90HX too (see #Tensor rate un-nerf on GeForce cards). Source: @68x0, 2026-10-22

CUDA support

Contested

@ob88594: "It seems CUDA calls are not supported and will cause errors". Source: @ob88594, 2026-10-13
@xnupanic76: "The 90HX works fine for CUDA, I have one in one of my workstations." Source: @xnupanic76, 2026-10-13
@ob88594 later: performance calls are ineffective and AI performance is much worse than a 3080. Source: @ob88594, 2026-10-13

Board card T-153 on the board asks two 90HX owners for one clean CUDA sample and one llama.cpp benchmark each.

Ray tracing and games

Reported
On 2026-10-16 @emogop reported hardware ray tracing working on the 90HX, with a screenshot of Indiana Jones (a game that needs hardware RT) running; he credits another member and friends with the unlock. Source: @emogop, 2026-10-16 Asked whether performance was still in the RTX 3060 range, @emogop answered that in real games it is closer to a desktop 3070. Source: @giaki3003, 2026-10-16
Source: @emogop, 2026-10-16 Before that, one owner said games were capped at 50 fps. Source: @lenxtroz, 2026-10-13

NVLink, GSP and vGPU

Reported No NVLink: the card has no NVLink fingers ("no splines"), and a bridge would cost more than the card anyway. Source: @minioadmin, 2026-10-19
Source: @scallion_9883, 2026-10-19
Source: @matstatman, 2026-10-19
Reported The GSP-off approach that @zarknoth described for CMP cards (unlock first, then load the driver with GSP firmware disabled) "work well" on the 90HX, and the non-GSP driver can be modified to use vGPU (screenshot, single report). Source: @zarknoth, 2026-10-27
Source: @green_dam, 2026-10-28
Source: @green_dam, 2026-10-28 The 170HX side of this is on VBIOS and firmware.

Unlock tools, uses and price

Reported The Windows unlocks for the CMP 90HX and 50HX run as a UEFI module before the OS starts. @zagitta took the idea for his early-boot Linux module from them, and says his own repo "is all based on the CPM90/50 unlocks". Source: @zagitta, 2026-10-24
Source: @zagitta, 2026-10-24 The gpu-unlock-ada README credits WildFlash1st/cmp90hx-unlock for its GA102 code path. Source: @petrikrohn_26497, 2026-10-24
Theory Asked on 2026-10-19 whether any 90HX unlock supports open-gpu-kernel-modules 615.78.08; no answer in the export. Source: @riko6253, 2026-10-19
Reported One member runs Kokoro TTS and Qwen ASR on a 90HX in his second rig. Source: @68x0, 2026-10-12
Reported Price: about 190 USD per card on 2026-10-13, up 40 to 100 USD within days; 248 USD on Huateng's price sheet dated about 2026-10-23. Since a 90HX now costs about as much as an RTX 3080, there is little point unless you already own one. Source: @lenxtroz, 2026-10-13
Source: @lenxtroz, 2026-10-14
Source: @legitsplit, 2026-10-26
Source: @lycorascence, 2026-10-18 More prices on Price history and market.

CMP 50HX

Reported Device ID 1E09 in NVIDIA's table (above). A Windows UEFI unlock exists for the 50HX, as for the 90HX. Source: @zagitta, 2026-10-24 Huateng's price sheet listed the 50HX at 248 USD. Source: @legitsplit, 2026-10-26 Theory After the consumer tensor unlock made the news, a member asked whether the CMP 50, 70 and 90 should work with it; no answer in the export. Source: @ju5t5omedude, 2026-10-25 The Discord export does not state the 50HX's chip or memory.

CMP 40HX, 30HX and 70HX

Reported Device IDs: 40HX 1F0B, 30HX 2189, 70HX 248A (above). The 40HX and 70HX have 8 GB. @djpandaman's worry was that someone would put one in a 170HX shroud and sell it as a "CMP 8GB" card; @dalzyyy answered that the 170HX PCB is outside the PCIe CEM outline and its edge connector lacks the key notch, so a normal card would have to be cut down or a custom PCB made. Source: @djpandaman, 2026-10-11
Source: @dalzyyy, 2026-10-11
Source: @dalzyyy, 2026-10-11 Check that a listing says 170HX: Which card do I have, Buying.
Reported dartraiden/NVIDIA-patcher (below) supports the 30HX, 40HX, 50HX, 70HX and 90HX as display GPUs, and for the 30HX and 40HX recommends blacklisting nouveau and disabling GSP firmware after the install. Source: repo github.com/dartraiden/NVIDIA-patcher by dartraiden on GitHub, posted by @xeax, 2026-10-27
The export has no posts about the 30HX, 40HX or 70HX chips and no unlock results for them.

CMP 100HX (100-210)

Reported
The CMP 100HX, also listed as the 100-210, is the mining card of the GV100 (Volta) generation, like the V100 and the Titan V. It is not related to the 170HX's GA100. This came up when a member asked whether a Titan V can be unlocked to 16 GB: "the titan V is GV100, A100 is GA100", "so different core". Source: @c07f, 2026-10-24
Source: @endsjeremy, 2026-10-24
Source: @endsjeremy, 2026-10-24
Source: @c07f, 2026-10-24 Not every 100HX revision can be modded and you have to test; some have been unlocked, but at V100 prices it is not very lucrative. Source: @xeax, 2026-10-24
Source: @xeax, 2026-10-24
Source: @xeax, 2026-10-24 One member said he had about 60 of them, bought at 110 each. Source: @backwardsminer, 2026-10-15
Source: @backwardsminer, 2026-10-15 Theory Whether anyone gets a 32 GB V100 out of a CMP 100, or only 16 GB, was asked and not answered. Source: @squishysquare, 2026-10-15
Source: @squishysquare, 2026-10-15 The 100HX PCB has a curved cutout at one end, which one member suggested as a mount for a blower and case. Source: @tugoubxs, 2026-10-14

The CMP100-210xFULLTENSORSxGEN3x1 unlock

Contested

@jma1753 owns 24 CMP 100-210 cards (10de:1d84) and used only the Tensor-only mode of mintoriakamoto/CMP100-210xFULLTENSORSxGEN3x1, without enabling Gen3 or flashing the VBIOS: "a great performance increase at low power", no issues after 5 days. The unlock is not persistent and is applied after each boot. Source: repo github.com/mintoriakamoto/CMP100-210xFULLTENSORSxGEN3x1 by mintoriakamoto on GitHub, posted by @jma1753, 2026-10-09
@68x0: the same developer claimed PCIe 5.0 on the 170HX in a cmpunlocker issue; "I wouldn't trust any of this AI slop from this person". Amogh (@_j3ns), the cmpunlocker author, replied: "Exactly why I banned them!" Source: @68x0, 2026-10-09
Source: @_j3ns, 2026-10-09

What the repo itself says (read, not run): it is cmp100-unlock 1.1.1 (GPL-2.0), a boot-time, volatile Tensor-core and PCIe Gen3 unlock for the CMP 100-210 (GV100, 16 GB HBM2, 10de:1d84 or 10de:1df4). Nothing is flashed; a reset or power loss locks the card again. It reports FP16 tensor throughput going from about 6 to 86.7 TFLOP/s and Gen3 at 0.806 / 0.845 GB/s per x1 lane (Gen1 0.194 / 0.214). It was tested only on two 10de:1df4 cards that a seller had flashed with a Tesla V100 VBIOS, on the proprietary 550.163.01 driver, and it packages earlier work by Brazzo978 (CmpUnlocker-100-210) and duggasco (CMP100-210). Read the script before running it. Not 170HX work. Source: repo github.com/mintoriakamoto/CMP100-210xFULLTENSORSxGEN3x1 by mintoriakamoto on GitHub

Reported One lesson from that repo applies to 170HX hosts that also carry other NVIDIA cards: the RMPcieLinkSpeed=0x1 registry dword is driver-wide and caps every NVIDIA GPU in the host, not only the CMP. Source: repo github.com/mintoriakamoto/CMP100-210xFULLTENSORSxGEN3x1 by mintoriakamoto on GitHub @ybryany, who runs a 170HX beside an RTX 4080 Super, left the global Gen2 dwords off for the same reason: they would have pulled the 4080 Super down to Gen2. Source: @ybryany, 2026-10-14 See Kernel parameters and module options.

The A100 and the 170HX

The 170HX is a cut-down A100. What the Discord established about the relation, with the details on CMP 170HX and Variant comparison:

What they share

Reported The die. Both are GA100. NVIDIA built the 170HX from GA100 dies that did not make the A100 bin. Source: repo github.com/amoghmunikote/170th-Street by amoghmunikote on GitHub, posted by @markshowa, 2026-10-18 Compute capability is 8.0 (sm_80) on both, so there is no FP8 on the 170HX. Source: @cibernox, 2026-10-15 NVIDIA's open driver lists the GA100 parts it supports as A100, A30 and A800 boards; the 170HX is not among them. Source: repo github.com/NVIDIA/open-gpu-kernel-modules by NVIDIA on GitHub
Reported The board. The CMPs are A100 PCIe PCBs with a few components left off, possibly with an extra strapping resistor. Source: @spectakkular, 2026-10-27 Compared with the A100 PCIe board, the 170HX leaves 5 Vcore VRM phases unsoldered (6 by another count), plus the parts of the 3.3 V NVLink clock generator. Source: @wingrimez_40467, 2026-10-22
Source: @ghostinthedatacenter_87281, 2026-10-22 Not everything sits in exactly the same place as on the A100. Source: @_syn_thetic_, 2026-10-26 Details on CMP 170HX#Board and hardware.
Reported Heat spreader and water blocks. The A100 40 GB and the 170HX have an integrated heat spreader; the A100 80 GB does not, so A100 80 GB water blocks have a raised cold plate and do not fit. Source: @_arcanum_, 2026-10-20 @spectakkular's version: the 8 GB 170HX has a heat spreader where the A100 80 GB has none, the 10 GB 170HX and the A100 40 GB both have one, and an A100 40 GB block on an 8 GB card is the likely mismatch. Source: @spectakkular, 2026-10-27 Water blocks sold as "RTX A100" blocks fit, since the A100 PCB "is identical to cmp170hx"; 3090 blocks do not. Source: @gnasherrr, 2026-10-14
Source: @gnasherrr, 2026-10-14
Source: @gnasherrr, 2026-10-14 SXM4 A100 heatsinks do not fit either: the boards are vastly different. Source: @wakeupmbrc1, 2026-10-16 See Water cooling.
Reported HBM packages. @djpandaman: every GA100 package he knows of, across the 170HX and A100 lines, carries 6 stacks of HBM2e, which he concludes are 16 GB stacks binned by Samsung. Source: @djpandaman, 2026-10-12 What that means for each 170HX variant is on 10 GB card and 8 GB card.

What differs

Reported What NVIDIA locked on the 170HX. FP32, FP64 and INT8 throttled (FP16 tensor left alone), SMs cut to 70, memory cut to 8 or 10 GB, PCIe at Gen1 x4, NVLink fused off with its board parts missing, ECC disabled, BAR limited to 64 MiB, no graphics outputs. Source: repo github.com/amoghmunikote/170th-Street by amoghmunikote on GitHub, posted by @markshowa, 2026-10-18 What the unlock gets back: Driver unlock, Full SM unlock, Gen2 link retrain, PCIe Gen3 on the 10 GB card, ECC, NVLink.
Reported Bad HBM blocks. The A100 hides bad HBM blocks by itself; on the 170HX owners mark them by hand. Source: @cute_sc2, 2026-10-05 See Memory errors and ECC.
Reported Power. The A100 PCIe cannot be undervolted and has a 300 W limit, so a compute-bound job sits at the cap all the time; the 170HX can be undervolted, which @wakeupmbrc1 counts as "like 25% free drain" saved. Source: @wakeupmbrc1, 2026-10-14
Source: @wakeupmbrc1, 2026-10-14
Source: @wakeupmbrc1, 2026-10-14 The A100 PCIe idles at about 22 W at P8 in the screenshots one member found, about what unlocked CMPs reach; he thinks HBM keeps it from going lower. Source: @robbbbbb7973, 2026-10-21 See Undervolting and power limits and P-states and idle power.
Contested Which A100 bin each variant shares.
- @atsasin2126: the 8 GB card has a 4096-bit bus because four HBM2e stacks were enough for its advertised mining rate, and "10g shares the bin with a100 40g, 8g with a100 80g". Source: @atsasin2126, 2026-10-17
  Source: @atsasin2126, 2026-10-17
- @djpandaman: "then why would a100 80G have 5120". Source: @djpandaman, 2026-10-17
Contested cp.async on sm_80. @zagitta: "cp.async is not on A100 afaik". @phoenixone7: it should be, worth checking. @zagitta then allowed it may have been some other memory-copy feature missing on sm_80 that his assistant hit when porting sm_86 code. Nobody checked the CUDA documentation in the thread; this matters to anyone porting kernels from GA10x to GA100. Source: @zagitta, 2026-10-28
Source: @phoenixone7, 2026-10-28
Source: @zagitta, 2026-10-28

A100 SXM modules

Reported A100 SXM modules only need 48 V; the converters on the module do the rest. Source: @dalzyyy, 2026-10-18 Prices and the Chinese SXM4-to-PCIe conversion cards are on Buying#Alternatives people priced.
Theory A member is reverse-engineering the SXM baseboard pinouts to make intermediary boards for A100 and H100 baseboards; another says a vendor already has an SXM4 board laid out. Source: @programmerboi, 2026-10-18
Source: @programmerboi, 2026-10-18
Source: @dalzyyy, 2026-10-18
Theory A 300 W SXM2 A100 module from a self-driving platform, the highest-TDP A100, is now on the used market; whether it works in a DGX-1 was discussed but not tried. Source: @endsjeremy, 2026-10-27
Source: @endsjeremy, 2026-10-27
Source: @endsjeremy, 2026-10-27

Engineering samples and single-rank boards

Warning 8 GB
Two kinds of card report as an 8 GB 170HX but do not unlock to 64 GB. Full identification details are on Which card do I have#Cards that are not a normal 170HX.

PG199-origin engineering samples unlock to 32 GB only. They are PG199 boards reconfigured to 170HX specs; one bought for over 9,000 yuan showed subsystem 10de:1586, board 699-11001-0109-RC1 and ES VBIOS 92.00.6D.00.01. Source: @_arcanum_, 2026-10-13
Source: @douya4305, 2026-10-13
Single-rank 8 GB cards stop at 32 GB, dual-rank cards reach 64 GB. A fake 64 GB unlock on a single-rank card passes memtest_vulkan but fails a CUDA memtest, so validate with a CUDA-side test. Source: repo github.com/PixelML/club-170hx by PixelML on GitHub, posted by @c133, 2026-10-20

Tensor rate un-nerf on GeForce cards

Not 170HX work. GeForce cards run FP16 and BF16 tensor math with FP32 accumulate (and TF32) at half the rate of the matching workstation and data-center cards. The CMP unlock work showed how to lift that cap, and in October 2026 members ported it to GeForce cards. None of these tools touch a 170HX. Details and more numbers are on Tools#Related work on other NVIDIA cards and Cmpunlocker forks.

Why it works

Reported The fuses NV_FUSE_OPT_SM_SPEED_SELECT_FMLA32 and NV_FUSE_OPT_SM_SPEED_SELECT_IMLA4 read 0x5 on the CMP 90HX and 0x1 on an RTX 3090, and Ada cards appear to carry a similar limit. Source: @green_dam, 2026-10-20
Source: @green_dam, 2026-10-20 The source is the case study in the unitypit71 repo. Source: repo github.com/unitypit71/rtx4070tisuper-tensor-unlock by unitypit71 on GitHub, posted by @matstatman, 2026-10-20 On pro and data-center cards the rate is generally not capped (a T4 "probably already has all it's tensor perf"). Source: @zagitta, 2026-10-27
Source: @zagitta, 2026-10-27

RTX 3090 and other Ampere cards

Proven RTX 3090. @zagitta applied the CMP register technique to his 3090s: the FP16/BF16 to FP32-accumulate MMA path went from 134 to 268.6 TFLOP/s, the same MMA per clock as an A40. Source: @zagitta, 2026-10-18
Source: @zagitta, 2026-10-18
Source: @zagitta, 2026-10-18 @danske1, running the same module on an EVGA RTX 3090 FTW3 (8192 x 8192 x 8192 GEMM, median of 20 iterations x 5 samples): FP16 in, FP32 accumulate 81.95 to 141.07 TFLOPS (+72 %); BF16 81.35 to 145.59 (+79 %); TF32 40.46 to 78.76 (+95 %); FP16 accumulate (about 148) and plain FP32 (about 30) unchanged. Source: @danske1, 2026-10-23
Source: @danske1, 2026-10-23
Source: @danske1, 2026-10-23
Contested What it buys in practice.
- @zagitta: "a minor unlock for a few % prefill", and only when the engine uses BF16 to FP32 FMA. Source: @zagitta, 2026-10-17
  Source: @zagitta, 2026-10-19
- A tester on r/LocalLLaMA found it works but makes no inference difference (relayed by @javicabrera_30495). Source: @javicabrera_30495, 2026-10-18
- The gpu-unlock README claims LLM prefill +25 to 55 %, BF16 fine-tuning +25 to 50 % and image generation +30 to 55 %, with decode, INT8/FP8/INT4 and gaming unchanged. Source: repo github.com/Zagitta/gpu-unlock by Zagitta on GitHub, posted by @zagitta, 2026-10-18
Reported Other Ampere cards. @grapepepper patched his RTX 3090 Ti from Zagitta's repository; @sojun80 un-nerfed a 3060 Ti, 3070, 3070 mobile, 3080 and 3080 Ti in one night. Source: @grapepepper, 2026-10-20
Source: @sojun80, 2026-10-21
Reported The Reddit "free 3090 speedup hack". The post "Amazing free 3090 speedup hack, verified works 15% PP, 5% TG for free" also worked on an RTX 3080 20 GB and on a CMP 90HX; its author is reported to be a member of the server. One owner found the inference gain small; another says the gains are real for diffusion models. One user only got it to take effect after unplugging the machine from the wall. Source: @vektor_prime, 2026-10-22
Source: @vektor_prime, 2026-10-22
Source: @68x0, 2026-10-22
Source: @stcord, 2026-10-22
Source: @licensedterrapin, 2026-10-22
Source: @djpandaman, 2026-10-22
Source: @lenxtroz, 2026-10-22
Reported RTX 3050 6 GB (GA107). @arabus_74064's card (18 SMs, sm_86) after the unlock: FP16 to FP32 18.3 to 37.0 TFLOPS, BF16 to FP32 18.2 to 37.0, INT8 72.8 to 74.0 TOPS, plain FP32 8.4 to 8.6. A GEMM correctness check at three shapes and seeds showed zero failures and zero max error. There is no unlock for the 8 GB 3050, which is GA106. The 6 GB card is 70 W, needs no power cable and has DisplayPort. Source: @arabus_74064, 2026-10-26
Source: @arabus_74064, 2026-10-27
Source: @arabus_74064, 2026-10-26
Source: @arabus_74064, 2026-10-26
Source: @arabus_74064, 2026-10-27
Reported Press. Tom's Hardware covered the consumer-card port on 2026-10-26 and credited the project properly. Source: @stcord, 2026-10-26
Source: @stcord, 2026-10-26 In @djpandaman's words, "the compute unlocks from cmpunlocker were ported over to consumer cards". Source: @djpandaman, 2026-10-26

Ada, Turing and Blackwell

Reported Ada (RTX 40). After the 3090 results, reports came in of an RTX 4070 Ti SUPER and then RTX 4080s unlocked; @grapepepper posted the unitypit71 repo and asked for "a single, safe, unified patch". Source: repo github.com/unitypit71/rtx4070tisuper-tensor-unlock by unitypit71 on GitHub, posted by @grapepepper, 2026-10-20
Source: @grapepepper, 2026-10-21
Source: @grapepepper, 2026-10-20 TOTORONG's AD103 Windows unlocker works ("Can confirm, it does work"). Source: repo huggingface.co/TOTORONG/AD103_win_unlocker by TOTORONG on huggingface.co, posted by @zagitta, 2026-10-23
Source: @dottoreargus, 2026-10-23 An RTX 4090 was reported unlocked with JustAResearcher/gpu-unlock-ada; @djpandaman: it can be done on AD103 too, and he was attempting AD102; @sevendaysworth unlocked an RTX 4080 FE. Source: @petrikrohn_26497, 2026-10-24
Source: @djpandaman, 2026-10-24
Source: @sevendaysworth, 2026-10-24 The 32 GB AD103 card mentioned with TOTORONG's tool is a hardware memory mod, not fused-off memory. Source: @armand0e, 2026-10-23
Source: @da6b, 2026-10-23
Theory Turing (RTX 20). On 2026-10-27 @zagitta was porting gpu-unlock to AD102 and TU102 and asked for Turing beta testers: a 2060 should work, TU116 could in theory be supported. As he understands it, LHR used the same speed-select registers with even heavier limits. Source: @zagitta, 2026-10-27
Source: @zagitta, 2026-10-27
Source: @zagitta, 2026-10-27
Source: @zagitta, 2026-10-27
Theory Blackwell (RTX 50). Nothing has been found; the 50 series is "significantly more secure" than the 40 and 30 series, though some specific tensor ops run at about half throughput. Source: @bigfoot1144, 2026-10-22
Source: @bigfoot1144, 2026-10-22
Theory One host with a 170HX and an un-nerfed GeForce card. Asked by an owner of one 170HX and two 3090s: @68x0 says it should just work, since the module runs before the NVIDIA driver loads and is gated by device IDs, and the 170HX still needs cmpunlocker; @zagitta says the module is driver-version agnostic and resets the card cleanly before handing it to the NVIDIA driver. Nobody in the thread reported trying it; @lycorascence said an earlier gpu-unlock attempt on his main system "didn't go so well" for his 3090 and CMP, with no details. Board card T-019. Source: @n3bs, 2026-10-26
Source: @68x0, 2026-10-26
Source: @68x0, 2026-10-26
Source: @zagitta, 2026-10-26
Source: @lycorascence, 2026-10-27
Theory @sojun80 set out to build a generic tool from cmpunlocker that adds every GPU he can, and a more unified driver for the 30 and 40 series; no repo was posted. Source: @sojun80, 2026-10-21
Source: @sojun80, 2026-10-21
Source: @sojun80, 2026-10-21

SM and TPC unlocks on GeForce cards

Theory
The Full SM unlock exists only for the CMP 170HX so far. Source: @lia_oc, 2026-10-24 On GeForce cards every attempt is a dead end to date:

@zagitta tried to unlock the last 2 SMs on his 3090s to make a 3090 Ti; by 2026-10-18 all register writes had been dead ends. His EVGA FTW3 has the TPC marked defective, while a cheap Palit reference card only has the last TPC marked disabled. On 2026-10-24 he rated SM unlocks on Ampere and Ada a "very low chance". Source: @zagitta, 2026-10-18
Source: @zagitta, 2026-10-18
Source: @zagitta, 2026-10-18
Source: @zagitta, 2026-10-24
There is no RIR on GA102 or on the 40 series, and on a 40-series card the software-override disable does nothing for TPCs. Source: @zagitta, 2026-10-26
Source: @djpandaman, 2026-10-27
Source: @djpandaman, 2026-10-27
Source: @scallion_9883, 2026-10-27 Read-only fuse dumps from two RTX 3090s show 41 TPCs / 82 SMs enabled; the disabled TPCs are probably defective, not merely disabled. Source: @zagitta, 2026-10-26
Source: @djpandaman, 2026-10-26
Which consumer chips would have the most to gain if it ever works: on the 30 series the big GA102 goes down the stack past the 3090, on the 40 series AD102 is only on the 4090 and some RTX 4070 Ti SUPER boards (AD102-175-KEF-A1), which @djpandaman thinks have the highest ceiling. "If nvidia disabled TPCs instead of disabling whole GPCs for lower tier cards then there are huge TPC unlocks to be had". Source: @endsjeremy, 2026-10-26
Source: @djpandaman, 2026-10-26
Source: @djpandaman, 2026-10-26
Source: @djpandaman, 2026-10-26
Source: @djpandaman, 2026-10-26 A 3080 has 16 SMs sitting idle. Source: @sojun80, 2026-10-21 The 3080 Ti 20G reads 82 SMs and 10496 CUDA cores, a 320-bit 20 GB version of the 3090 that is only 4 SMs short of a 3090 Ti. Source: @kill3again, 2026-10-21
Source: @sojun80, 2026-10-21
@djpandaman posted a read-only AD102 fuse dump script and asked owners of a 4090, RTX 5000 Ada or RTX 6000 Ada to run it (board card T-091). Source: @djpandaman, 2026-10-27

Telling disabled from defective. Start with gpcprobe ("start with my probe") and read the RIR. Source: @matstatman, 2026-10-18
Source: @xeax, 2026-10-18 A "NVIDIA CMP & GeForce Consumer Master Matrix" HTML page that lists active SMs per card circulated on 2026-10-18; its author says Gemini wrote it and it may still contain errors (one was spotted in the 50-series rows), so treat it as a list of things to check, not as a source. Source: @xeax, 2026-10-18
Source: @junsulee119, 2026-10-18
Source: @xeax, 2026-10-18 No Windows or EFI tool shows disabled versus defective SMs on GA102 or GA104. Source: @emogop, 2026-10-19

Memory mods on GeForce cards

Reported RTX 3080 10 GB to 20 GB. Only 3080s on the reference PCB (memory pads on the back) can be converted by adding chips. Source: @endsjeremy, 2026-10-26
Source: @endsjeremy, 2026-10-26 In China the conversion is a systematic project: shops move the 3080 core onto a 3090-type PCB, and the Xianyu sellers of modded 3080 and 4080 cards sell the PCBs too. Source: @ob88594, 2026-10-27
Source: @ob88594, 2026-10-27
Source: @ob88594, 2026-10-27 Theory Whether cmpunlocker or gpu-unlock applies to a 3080 20 GB was asked and not answered (board card T-105). Source: @iksboj, 2026-10-20 A Chinese RTX 3080 20 GB "OEM Turbo" board shows NVLink pads; whether anyone has enabled NVLink on it was asked, no answer. Source: @dottoreargus, 2026-10-09
Theory RTX 3090 48 GB. The only known mod moves the GA102 to an A6000 PCB with GDDR6; nobody knew of a BIOS for a 48 GB 3090 that keeps GDDR6X. Source: @xeax, 2026-10-17 48 GB is "only possible on 4090 because there's a leaked vbios with 48gb config". Source: @zagitta, 2026-10-17
Contested RTX 4090 48 GB. A US modding service sells 48 GB 4090s at 5,000 USD.
- @quark2world avoids them: the PCB has poor voltage isolation, and "if something goes wrong takes the core with it". Source: @djpandaman, 2026-10-04
  Source: @busulle, 2026-10-04
  Source: @quark2world, 2026-10-04
  Source: @quark2world, 2026-10-04
- @gpmickey bought his 48 GB 4090 there, talked to the owner and vouches for the service. Source: @globalapathy, 2026-10-20
  Source: @gpmickey, 2026-10-20
Warning Back-side VRAM on clamshell cards. @gpmickey fried a memory chip on his 48 GB 4090 before learning that the back-side VRAM needs real airflow. Water-cooled back plates exist; his card now sits in an Octominer case with heavy airflow. Source: @gpmickey, 2026-10-20
Source: @gpmickey, 2026-10-20
Source: @gpmickey, 2026-10-20

Other NVIDIA data-center cards

Tesla V100 and Titan V

Contested Is the V100 a real alternative?
- The cmpunlocker maintainer: "It's a little old and doesn't have driver support anymore". Source: @prefix10k, 2026-10-06
  Source: @_j3ns, 2026-10-06
- @xeax: V100s are great, but use 4 or 8 SXM2 modules with NVLink and an SM70 vLLM fork such as 1CatAI/1Cat-vLLM; without NVLink you lose tensor parallel. Source: @xeax, 2026-10-24
  Source: repo github.com/1CatAI/1Cat-vLLM by 1CatAI on GitHub, posted by @xeax, 2026-10-24 @xanthefin gets 88 tok/s on Qwen 3.6 across two V100s with llama.cpp built from source and a 5-bit quant, and finds a couple of V100s "not far" from one 170HX in some respects, with a tuned pair of 170HX in another league. Source: @xanthefin, 2026-10-18
  Source: @xanthefin, 2026-10-18
  Source: @xanthefin, 2026-10-18
  Source: @xanthefin, 2026-10-18
Reported The Titan V is GV100, like the V100; its CMP relative is the 100HX, not the 170HX (above). 16 GB V100s once sold for about 200 USD, which made a Titan V memory unlock pointless. Source: @endsjeremy, 2026-10-24
Source: @endsjeremy, 2026-10-24 V100s can be driver-patched for gaming. Source: @xeax, 2026-10-24
Theory A V100 and a 170HX in one host. @nathang6866 has had V100s and a 170HX in the same Dell R730 under Proxmox, but did not run one model across them. Source: @nathang6866, 2026-10-25 A member asked whether anyone has combined sm70 and sm80 cards (a CMP holding the active weights and KV cache, the rest on V100s) and expects a "driver nightmare"; nobody reported trying (board cards T-064, T-102). Source: @kellertreppe123, 2026-10-24
Source: @kellertreppe123, 2026-10-24
Source: @zingy90210, 2026-10-25 Mixing rules for the 170HX are on Platforms.

A30 and A30X

Theory The A30 also uses HBM and appears to be the same GA100 with very aggressive harvesting, but with 24 GB; the A30X, which has a high-speed interconnect, might be more interesting. Nobody has checked what memory an A30 really carries: it is "either a dead end or an absolute gemm (either it's actually 24GB or it's 96GB)". Source: @mfj4, 2026-10-13
Source: @programmerboi, 2026-10-13
Source: @programmerboi, 2026-10-13
Source: @programmerboi, 2026-10-13
Source: @programmerboi, 2026-10-21
Source: @programmerboi, 2026-10-21 The A30 uses HBM2 rather than HBM2e, which may matter. Source: @mrmannyatx, 2026-10-21 Only A30 listings, no A30X, turned up on eBay. Source: @c133, 2026-10-21

P106-090

Reported A screenshot shows the P106-090 mining card running at PCIe Gen2 x16. Source: @green_dam, 2026-10-21

Graphics on a 170HX

This section is about the CMP 170HX itself.

Reported 8 GB @peter643 got graphics running and found the vertex path used only 40 SMs; he reached 74 SMs by disabling an experimental NVIDIA register that limits some cross-GPC vertex work. Result: about 160 fps in Minecraft with shaders at 1080p, marginally faster than an RTX 3060 12 GB and nowhere near a 3080, at about 60 W. "I guess we need a real SM unlock to get the extra performance." Board card T-151 asks for a second card and the register name. Source: @peter643, 2026-10-20
Reported About 20 fps on Linux against 60 fps on Windows on the same card; the poster suspects the open driver throttles it. Source: @bigptoughneigh, 2026-10-17
Contested Which graphics APIs work.
- One member: there is no DirectX, OpenGL or Vulkan support. Source: @lenxtroz, 2026-10-15
- Another: "vulkan is what the inference runs on". Source: @honzapat_cz, 2026-10-15
- @xeax: "somebody tried yes, it works, its not great because you need pcie bandwith and for the price you can find better gaming hardware". Source: @xeax, 2026-10-15
Reported The card has no HDMI or DisplayPort, so output needs another GPU or the iGPU, or frame-buffer copying as Looking Glass does. GA100 has hardware decode and CUDA video processing but no NVENC encoder, and it has no ROPs. Source: @tugoubxs, 2026-10-27
Source: @phoenixone7, 2026-10-28
Source: @phoenixone7, 2026-10-28
Source: @djpandaman, 2026-10-28
Source: @phoenixone7, 2026-10-28
Reported Tesla cards have been made to game: the Level1Techs "Gaming, on my Tesla" thread worked for P100s, and one member has run a game on a V100. An A100 "wouldnt work out of the box". For botting, P100 and V100 are "perfect for that and dirt cheap". Source: @darkmaniac7, 2026-10-28
Source: @lycorascence, 2026-10-28
Source: @xeax, 2026-10-28
Source: @wakeupmbrc1, 2026-10-15
Claims about RT cores and OpenGL on unlocked CMP cards have no proof yet; they are listed on Rumours and claims to verify.

Non-CMP unlock projects posted on the server

One paragraph per project, for reference. Each is credited to its owner and to the member who posted it. None of them unlocks a CMP 170HX.

Zagitta/gpu-unlock. Reported A Linux kernel module (version 2.0.0) that removes the half-rate cap on FP16, BF16 and TF32 tensor math with FP32 accumulate on GeForce RTX 30 cards (stable) and RTX 40 and 20 cards (experimental). It loads from the initramfs before the stock NVIDIA driver, writes the tensor rate selectors and resets the card, so there is no patched driver, no VBIOS flash and nothing to redo after a driver update. The README's dense BF16 GEMM numbers: RTX 3060 12 GB 27 to 51 TFLOPS, 3080 10 GB 65 to 113, 3090 75 to 125, 3090 Ti 88 to 157, 4080 104 to 193, 4090 165 to 329 peak; decode, INT8, FP8 and games are unchanged. It is opt-in per card on the kernel command line, GPL-2.0 for the module. Its card table has no GA100 or CMP IDs, so CMP cards are refused. Not 170HX work. Source: repo github.com/Zagitta/gpu-unlock by Zagitta on GitHub, posted by @zagitta, 2026-10-18
Source: repo github.com/Zagitta/gpu-unlock by Zagitta on GitHub, posted by @mrwojaketh, 2026-10-24

JustAResearcher/gpu-unlock-ada. Reported A fork of gpu-unlock (module version 1.1.1, GPL-2.0) that takes the same tensor un-nerf to the RTX 4090 and, behind per-chip opt-in flags, other Ada boards. The README reports FP16 to FP32-accumulate on a 4090 going from 165.6 to 331.6 TF/s instruction rate, while real cuBLAS GEMM gains are much smaller (FP16 +12 to 34 %, BF16 +16 to 20 % at some shapes), and a quantized MoE serving workload on a 48 GB 4090 showed no gain. It credits Zagitta/gpu-unlock, TOTORONG/AD103_win_unlocker and WildFlash1st/cmp90hx-unlock, and explicitly refuses data-center dies. Not 170HX work. Source: repo github.com/JustAResearcher/gpu-unlock-ada by JustAResearcher on GitHub, posted by @petrikrohn_26497, 2026-10-24

unitypit71/rtx4070tisuper-tensor-unlock. Reported A Korean-language brief and case study, with evidence files but no source code or binaries, for doubling FP16/BF16 to FP32-accumulate and TF32 throughput on one RTX 4070 Ti SUPER (AD103, 66 SMs) from a UEFI pre-boot app. Its Linux numbers: FP16/FP32-accumulate 94.1 to 184.8 TFLOPS, BF16 93.9 to 184.4, TF32 47.0 to 92.2, cuBLAS BF16 90.5 to 179.3; FP16 accumulate, INT8 and FFMA unchanged. The change is volatile (lost on power-off) and the repo says no universal 40-series tool is possible because every chip needs its own assets. It credits the CMP unlock work as prior art and builds on Zagitta/gpu-unlock. No license file. Not 170HX work. Source: repo github.com/unitypit71/rtx4070tisuper-tensor-unlock by unitypit71 on GitHub, posted by @grapepepper, 2026-10-20
Source: repo github.com/unitypit71/rtx4070tisuper-tensor-unlock by unitypit71 on GitHub, posted by @matstatman, 2026-10-20

TOTORONG/AD103_win_unlocker (Hugging Face). Reported A Windows tensor unlocker for AD103 (RTX 40) cards. @dottoreargus confirmed it works, and @zagitta started porting it into gpu-unlock; gpu-unlock-ada's AD102 support derives from it. Not 170HX work. Source: repo huggingface.co/TOTORONG/AD103_win_unlocker by TOTORONG on huggingface.co, posted by @zagitta, 2026-10-23
Source: @dottoreargus, 2026-10-23
Source: @zagitta, 2026-10-23

dartraiden/NVIDIA-patcher. Reported A long-running English and Russian project that patches NVIDIA's stock drivers so mining cards bind as display and 3D-capable GPUs: P106, P104 and P102 cards, CMP 30HX, 40HX, 50HX, 70HX, 90HX and 170HX, and a few odd SKUs. On Linux a script patches the blocked-device table in the official .run installer; on Windows the INF is rewritten and the driver re-signed (self-patching needs Windows test mode, which breaks many anti-cheat systems; the author's prebuilt releases do not). Its NVENC flavour crashes apps on cards without a hardware encoder, which includes the 170HX. No license file. It lists both 170HX device IDs, but it is not an unlock: it does not touch FP32, memory, SMs or the PCIe generation, and on Linux it patches the proprietary module, so it is an alternative to cmpunlocker for graphics use, not a companion. Not 170HX unlock work. Source: repo github.com/dartraiden/NVIDIA-patcher by dartraiden on GitHub, posted by @xeax, 2026-10-27 See also Known bad combinations.

mintoriakamoto/CMP100-210xFULLTENSORSxGEN3x1. Contested The CMP 100-210 (GV100) unlock described above, with the trust warning. Not 170HX work. Source: repo github.com/mintoriakamoto/CMP100-210xFULLTENSORSxGEN3x1 by mintoriakamoto on GitHub, posted by @jma1753, 2026-10-09