Unofficial guide
GPU Unlock projects
Source repositories only. Star counts as of 2026-10-29.
Tensor-core unlock
Zagitta/gpu-unlock
The original module. Stable on RTX 30, experimental on RTX 20 and 40.
RTX 20 · 30 · 40 · Upstream
JustAResearcher/gpu-unlock-ada
RTX 4090 port with per-card opt-in flags and detailed evidence for other Ada cards.
RTX 4090 · RTX 40
impacifist/Windows-GPU-UNLOCK
UEFI port that unlocks before Windows boots. RTX 30, per-board profiles.
RTX 3060 – 3090 Ti
nlzy/turing-unlock
Turing adaptation, measured on the RTX 2080 Ti.
RTX 2080 Ti
physicsdolphin/nv-uefi-unlocker
UEFI unlocker in Rust for Windows, verified on RTX 20 and 40 cards.
RTX 20 · 40
phiraml/gpu-unlock-blackwell
Measures the cap on the RTX 5090 and maps out a port. No unlock yet.
RTX 5090
miounet11/gpuunlock
Hand merge of the Ampere and Ada modules into one tree.
RTX 30 · 40
PantACRO4life/gpu-unlock-4090-windows
Windows UEFI unlock for one exact RTX 4090 system.
RTX 4090
NeoChen1024/gpu-unlock-ad103
RTX 4080 and 4080 SUPER support with a read-only preflight.
RTX 4080 · 4080 SUPER
Sticzu/nixos-gpu-unlock
Declarative NixOS module and flake for the Ampere unlock.
RTX 30
vGPU unlock (a different feature)
Enables NVIDIA vGPU virtualization on consumer cards, for Proxmox and KVM. It does not change tensor speed.
DualCoder/vgpu_unlock
The original vGPU unlock for GeForce and Quadro cards.
GTX 900 – RTX 20
mbilker/vgpu_unlock-rs
Rust rewrite of vgpu_unlock, the version most Proxmox guides use.
GTX 900 – RTX 20
VGPU-Community-Drivers/vGPU-Unlock-patcher
Patches NVIDIA vGPU drivers for consumer cards.
GTX 900 – RTX 20