Not soon, it seems. Nvidia is so far ahead that they're artificially limiting their 4090's to half speed to fill a market niche.
Fascinating, I had no idea this was even a thing. Simultaneously badass team green is far ahead and also a bummer to be artificially limited / segmented.
I wonder if the upcoming 5090 core will mostly be a fuse-intact 4090. I imagine nearly all of NVs current focus is on H200 and Blackwell and whatever else is in the pipeline rather than these "silly" little gamer cards which bring in comparably trivial financial resources.
/me *cries a tear*
https://x.com/cognitivecompai/status/1868399108924592391
https://x.com/cognitivecompai/status/1868401738706993301
From my research it seems that restoring full GPU capabilities by repairing or circumventing a deliberately blown eFuse on an NVIDIA AD102 die is, for all practical purposes, impossible.
Maybe, but it's also possible that it wouldn't do anything. Other Nvidia boards (like the Tegra in the Switch) also come with arbitrarily disabled "dark silicon", but enabling the extra SOC hardware only causes the board to crash when using everything at once. It wouldn't surprise me if this was a binning measure, even though I also wouldn't be surprised if it was an arbitrary limit.