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Your GeForce runs AI at half speed. This fixes it for 20/30/40 series cards. Up to 2× FP16 / BF16 / TF32 tensor throughput

Is Zagitta/gpu-unlock beginner-friendly?

In the last 30 days, Zagitta/gpu-unlock merged 9 of 81 pull requests from outside contributors, and its maintainers usually reply within 1 day. 5 beginner-friendly issues are open now.

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Forks: 1.6k
Open beginner issues: 5
Indexed issues: 72
Avg merge: 6h 44m
Merged PRs (30d): 9

Dominant language: C
License: No license data
Last GitHub push: Oct 29, 2026
Latest indexed: Nov 4, 2026
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Your unlock lineage confirmed on an MSI RTX 4070 SUPER, Windows register proof and Linux numbers
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Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 15/100

Zagitta/gpu-unlock#323 · 2 comments · Opened Nov 9, 2026

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Unlock failure: <card> (<PCI ID>)
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 32/100

Zagitta/gpu-unlock#321 · 1 reaction · Opened Nov 8, 2026

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RTX 3060 Mobile / FrankenCard (10de:2520) silently skipped due to missing ID in recipes.c
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Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 75/100

Zagitta/gpu-unlock#312 · 3 comments · Opened Nov 6, 2026

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GPU falls off the bus (Xid 79) after S3 resume on an RTX 3080 20 GB, ~1 in 25 resumes; resume then hangs in nvidia_modeset
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Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

Zagitta/gpu-unlock#311 · Opened Nov 6, 2026

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Blank screen after attempting install on 3080 Laptop edition on Mint
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Difficulty 4/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

Zagitta/gpu-unlock#309 · 4 comments · Opened Nov 5, 2026

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RTX 4090 BF16 diagnosis: default GEMM is L2-limited; larger tiles recover 1.98x at matched clocks
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Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

Zagitta/gpu-unlock#308 · Opened Nov 5, 2026

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Unlock failure: MSI RTX 4090 24 GB (10de:2684), VBIOS 95.02.3C.00.14 — unlock completes, BF16/FP16 FP32-accumulate stays near half rate
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Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

Zagitta/gpu-unlock#304 · 1 comment · Opened Nov 4, 2026

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RTX 3090 passthrough VM hard-freezes the Proxmox host during model loading (Direct mode, PR #252)
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 32/100

Zagitta/gpu-unlock#303 · 1 comment · Opened Nov 4, 2026

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Compatibility report: Gigabyte RTX 4080 (AD103, 10de:2704), Fedora 44, kernel 7.2.11 — unlocked, +93% BF16 GEMM
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Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 35/100

Zagitta/gpu-unlock#297 · Opened Nov 2, 2026

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Unlock failure: RTX3090 on PopOS 24.04
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 46/100

Zagitta/gpu-unlock#293 · 2 comments · Opened Nov 2, 2026

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Compatibility report: RTX 4070 12 GB (AD104, 10de:2786), Ubuntu 24.04 / kernel 6.8.0-90 - unlocked clean, 0% on quantized llama.cpp
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Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 35/100

Zagitta/gpu-unlock#290 · 1 comment · Opened Nov 2, 2026

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Unlock failure: 2070 Super (10de:1e84)
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

Zagitta/gpu-unlock#287 · 4 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Nov 1, 2026

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Boot hang / Black screen on Fedora 44 with Secure Boot (sbctl + UKI + akmods)
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

Zagitta/gpu-unlock#284 · 3 comments · Opened Nov 1, 2026

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Error during make install
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Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

Zagitta/gpu-unlock#283 · 1 comment · Opened Nov 1, 2026

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Compatibility report: RTX 3070 Ti Founders Edition 8 GB (10de:2482), Pop!_OS 24.04 / kernel 7.2, unlocked alongside an RTX 3080 LHR: BF16 GEMM +73% sustained, llama.cpp/vLLM BF16 prefill +37–38%
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Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 45/100

Zagitta/gpu-unlock#280 · Opened Oct 31, 2026

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Compatibility report: RTX 3070 Laptop (10de:249d, GA104M, MUXless Optimus) on Windows 10, FP16 ~2x
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Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 35/100

Zagitta/gpu-unlock#275 · Opened Oct 30, 2026

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GPU-UNLOCK RTX 4080 Super
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Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

Zagitta/gpu-unlock#274 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 30, 2026

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Unlock failure: RTX2080ti (0000:2d:00.0)
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Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

Zagitta/gpu-unlock#273 · 3 comments · Opened Oct 30, 2026

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Regression on 3060 Mobile (GA106M) since 1.1.0
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Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 35/100

Zagitta/gpu-unlock#270 · Opened Oct 30, 2026

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Not correct on boot Ubuntu 26.04.1, Kernel 42 not find NVIDIA Kernel Module
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

Zagitta/gpu-unlock#268 · 1 reaction · Opened Oct 30, 2026

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Unlock failure: <RTX2080> (<PCI ID>)
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 34/100

Zagitta/gpu-unlock#263 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 29, 2026

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Unlock failure: 5× RTX 3090 (10de:2204) behind a PEX880xx switch: whole switch lost to DPC / Xid 79 after a successful unlock
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Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 22/100

Zagitta/gpu-unlock#260 · 3 comments · Opened Oct 29, 2026

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RTX 3090 (10de:2204): SM clock telemetry stuck at 210 MHz under full load after unlock — performance, power capping and thermals all normal
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

Zagitta/gpu-unlock#258 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 29, 2026

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Compatibility question: Zotac RTX 3080 10 GB and Windows UEFI on an X99 system with CSM
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

Zagitta/gpu-unlock#257 · Opened Oct 29, 2026

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ESXi passthrough: removing gpu_unlock.targets and rebooting guest does not restore stock state (RTX 3080 Ti)
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Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

Zagitta/gpu-unlock#255 · Opened Oct 29, 2026

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Encrypted devices without nvidia module
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Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

Zagitta/gpu-unlock#249 · 3 comments · Opened Oct 28, 2026

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Compatibility report: RTX 3050 Ti Mobile (GA107, 10de:25a0) — unlocked, +68% FP16 / +74% BF16 (requires runtime D3 off)
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Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 78/100

Zagitta/gpu-unlock#246 · Opened Oct 28, 2026

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Help installing on Gentoo (no systemd, no initramfs, no rmp, no deb)
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

Zagitta/gpu-unlock#244 · 5 comments · Opened Oct 28, 2026

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2x 3090 Ubuntu 26.04 LTS unlock failrs
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 43/100

Zagitta/gpu-unlock#236 · 4 comments · Opened Oct 27, 2026

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Compatibility report: MSI GF65 Thin 10UE RTX 3060 Laptop (10de:2520) — boot unlock succeeds, selectors later reset
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

Zagitta/gpu-unlock#230 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 27, 2026

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RTX 3050 Ti Laptop (Ampere) GPU unlock compatibility
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 28/100

Zagitta/gpu-unlock#227 · 6 comments · Opened Oct 27, 2026

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Link to community beginner-friendly Windows guide (related project)
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Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 67/100

Zagitta/gpu-unlock#221 · Opened Oct 27, 2026

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3060ti zotac pc?
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Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 25/100

Zagitta/gpu-unlock#214 · 3 comments · Opened Oct 27, 2026

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GA103M 2420 Linux kmod 首例，BF16 38.94→52.7-56.7 TFLOPS（+42%，锁频实测）
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Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

Zagitta/gpu-unlock#213 · Opened Oct 27, 2026

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Compatibility report: MSI RTX 3090 SUPRIM 24G (10de:2204)
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 43/100

Zagitta/gpu-unlock#208 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 27, 2026

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Question: would a modded VBIOS approach be possible?
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Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

Zagitta/gpu-unlock#203 · 9 comments · Opened Oct 26, 2026

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Compatibility report: Dell XPS 17 RTX 3060 Laptop 6 GB (10de:2520)
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

Zagitta/gpu-unlock#198 · Opened Oct 26, 2026

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Compatibility report: Gigabyte RTX 3060 12 GB (10de:2544), VBIOS 94.06.54.00.2E — unlock failed (-22): FWSEC dmem_size 0x980 not 256-aligned; failed unlock then blocks nvidia
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

Zagitta/gpu-unlock#184 · 2 comments · Opened Oct 26, 2026

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Compatibility report: RTX 3090 24 GB (10de:2204) — initramfs-tools loads nvidia before gpu_unlock, unlock fails (-16) without an init-top script
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Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 56/100

Zagitta/gpu-unlock#171 · Opened Oct 26, 2026

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Possible ban from nvidia?
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

Zagitta/gpu-unlock#169 · 5 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Oct 26, 2026

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Debian package never installs the dracut config — module silently missing from initramfs on dracut-based systems (Ubuntu 26.04)
May be free again A pull request for this issue was closed without being merged. Open
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Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 35/100

Zagitta/gpu-unlock#151 · 2 comments · Opened Oct 26, 2026

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Compatibility report: ASUS ROG Strix RTX 3060 12 GB (10de:2503)
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

Zagitta/gpu-unlock#149 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 26, 2026

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Compatibility report: Gigabyte RTX 3070 LHR 8 GB (10de:2488), +77-84% tensor GEMM; 1 of 5 unlocked boots hard-locked
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 43/100

Zagitta/gpu-unlock#137 · Opened Oct 25, 2026

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Compatibility report: RTX 3060 Laptop 6 GB (10de:2520, Lenovo 17aa:3a5d) - unlocks only with NVreg_GpuInitOnProbe=1, likely root cause for the 'no speedup' reports
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

Zagitta/gpu-unlock#135 · Opened Oct 25, 2026

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Compatibility report: RTX 3070 Laptop 8GB (10de:24dd) — unlock succeeds, no FP16/BF16 speedup
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 44/100

Zagitta/gpu-unlock#124 · 2 comments · Opened Oct 25, 2026

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Seeking a CachyOS guide for Limine
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Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 52/100

Zagitta/gpu-unlock#121 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 25, 2026

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How-To: Install & Configure gpu-unlock on Ubuntu 26.04
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Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 84/100

Zagitta/gpu-unlock#117 · 2 reactions · Opened Oct 25, 2026

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support turing?
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Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

Zagitta/gpu-unlock#97 · 2 comments · Opened Oct 25, 2026

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TUF-RTX3070-O8G-GAMING FIXED
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

Zagitta/gpu-unlock#93 · 6 comments · Opened Oct 25, 2026

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Compatibility report: RTX 4060 Laptop / AD107M (10de:28a0) — unlock works, 1.79–1.90× per clock; laptops need runtime D3 off
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

Zagitta/gpu-unlock#91 · 1 comment · 2 reactions · Opened Oct 25, 2026

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