StudioRTX 3090 with gpu-unlock nearly doubles BF16 tensor throughput, but real inference gains only ~10%
Original title: Anyone checked gpu unlock for rtx 30-40 cards?
u/UltramanQuar tested Zagitta's gpu-unlock Linux kernel module: after a cold boot, all 4 of their 3090s report FMLA32 = full instead of 1/2, with BF16 tensor pipe rising from 82 to 155 TFLOPS, cuBLAS BF16 GEMM 8192 from 64 to 99 TFLOPS, and TF32 from 41 to 79 TFLOPS. Real inference gains fell short of predictions: Strata, Qwen3.8 Flash-Next on 2 cards showed +12% prefill at 4K and 10K, and +10% at 90K (3205 to 3536 tok/s), since GEMM phases shortened 23% but are only about 40% of Strata prefill, while int8 experts, copies and CUDA core kernels saw no speedup. Outputs were byte-for-byte identical over 1996 teacher-forced positions. The author wonders whether it works on 40 series cards.
The author benchmarked the open-source gpu-unlock module on identical hardware and drivers, verifying both the gains and their limits, plus byte-identical outputs — a useful reference before enabling it.
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