There was an article on here just a few days ago about an Nvidia crypto GPU that was sold a few years ago. This lady discovered that via voltage glitches she could turn back on features that Nvidia had turned off. She had cards that were sold with only 8 gigs of VRAM enabled that actually had 80 gigs of VRAM.

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esalman an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Yeah I never really shared the adulation the AI community still seems to have for Jensen. To me he was always a sleazebag.

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ankitg12 an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

This was the discussion - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50451903

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thin_carapace an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

selective binning of semiconductors is not a new or inherently evil practice. that being said, someone managing to get a 170hx to 80 gigs is possibly the most prominent example of unlocking manufacturer restricted features.

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omgwtfbyobbq an hour ago | parent [-]

80gb to 8gb seems like a bit more than normal binning (eg 5800x3d with bad core/etc cut down to 5600x3d).

	▲	wmf 19 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		HBM is quite expensive so it's strange to see so much disabled.