RTX 30-series FP/BF16 driver lock cracked: RTX 3090 jumps from 75T to 135T
CeFurkan · reddit · 2026-10-24
KohakuLab and ComfyUI confirm an unlock for RTX 3000-series (GA102/103/104/106) FP/BF16 performance that was previously limited by drivers. A 3090 at a 360W power wall went from 75T to 135T in PyTorch; on a 450W 3090 Ti, BF16 rose from 87.5 to 157.4 TFLOPS and TF32 nearly doubled (42.6→82.6). Tool: open-source gpu-unlock repo, commit a9b0c75.
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