Plug in a flash drive. Boot it. It tells you what your NVIDIA GPU is, what limits it carries, and applies the community tensor unlock where one exists for your exact card. Then it boots your OS.
This project is packaging and integration. The unlocks themselves are the work of the people below, and this repo exists to make their work simple to use: one stick, a real menu, plain-language identification, and honest per-card verdicts (validated / confirmed / theory / no path).
| Contributor | What they built |
|---|---|
| Zagitta | The original GPU tensor unlock (Ampere) and the research the whole field stands on |
| JustAResearcher | The Ada Lovelace port, including the Windows UEFI branch this console's port derives from |
| physicsdolphin | A unified UEFI unlocker covering most RTX 20/30/40 series |
| nlzy | The Turing (RTX 20) unlock |
| Panchovix | The Vix no-flash VBIOS loader and editor (power ceilings without flashing) |
| miounet11 | The merged Linux kernel module (Ada + Ampere) |
| phiraml, shuttie | The Blackwell feasibility research that honestly maps why RTX 50 has no unlock yet |
Full provenance, pins, and per-repo roles: docs/sources-and-coverage-2026-11-02.md. If this tool helped you, support the original authors — several link donation pages from their repos.
The tiered list is the project's claim and it is kept honest: docs/supported-gpus.md
- Validated here: RTX 4070 SUPER (unlock transaction proven on the author's machine), RTX 5060 Ti (identification + power; no tensor unlock exists for Blackwell).
- Confirmed by other users in the upstream projects: the Ampere line (stable, 100+ reports), most Ada cards per PCI ID with cited reports, 2080 Ti and 2070 on Turing.
- Theory: identified by the console, never promised an unlock.
- Blackwell tensor unlock: does not exist anywhere as of 2026-11-02. Anyone selling you one is selling you something else.
- A bootable USB stick with two partitions: a small EFI partition (the console) and a data partition any OS can read and write without admin rights (docs/gpu-console-datastore.md).
- The console identifies every GPU in the machine (architecture from Kepler to Blackwell, cores, memory, link, VBIOS, live cap state), shows the unlock verdict per card, and only writes where a verified profile exists for that exact card.
- A backup of the card's state is written to the stick before any write. The unlock is volatile: a full power-off restores stock. Nothing persists on the card, nothing is flashed.
- A Windows companion sets a one-time boot into the console, so using it is one click and one reboot (windows-companion/).
- Tensor cores at full rate draw serious power. Unlocking can damage hardware. Use at your own risk.
- Secure Boot must be off to boot the stick. That is a real trade-off; decide knowingly.
- Builds are reproducible from source. Release binaries, when posted, carry SHA-256 hashes in the release notes. Never download this tool from anywhere but this repo — fake unlock installers are a known scam in this space.
Licensing follows the components, and attribution is total (see NOTICE.md):
- The unlock code derives from GPL projects and is GPL-2.0 (LICENSE); the Panchovix components are GPL-3.0 (LICENSES/GPL-3.0-Panchovix.txt).
- The Windows companion scripts, documentation, and data layouts original to this repo are MIT (LICENSES/MIT.txt).
- Both licenses carry the same no-warranty terms: the software is provided as is, without warranty of any kind, and the authors are not liable for any damage. That protection covers every contributor named above as well as this repo's maintainer.
Active development, November 2026. The v2 console (graphical menu, live diagnostics) is in build for the author's RTX 4070 SUPER rig; the identification engine and multi-card profiles are the v3 line (docs/efi-v3-roadmap-2026-11-02.md).