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AMD BC-250 salvage boards unlock 40 compute units for $50–150
A developer reverse-engineered AMD's BC-250 (PS5 APU) to enable disabled GPU cores, achieving 372 tokens/second on 9B models at a fraction of enterprise GPU cost.
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A developer has successfully unlocked disabled compute units on salvaged AMD BC-250 boards—repurposed PlayStation 5 APUs—by modifying GPU driver registers, turning $50–150 eBay purchases into usable inference accelerators for local LLM deployment.
The BC-250 ships with 24 of 40 compute units (CUs) ...
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