> Also it's NVidia, all of the home grade cards are artificially limited by drivers. You know that all products with any electronics in them do this, right? It

> Also it's NVidia, all of the home grade cards are artificially limited by drivers. You know that all products with any electronics in them do this, right? It's not an Nvidia thing by any stretch of the imagination. Your phone and your computers all have software feature toggles for features meant for future hardware. Your OS has features disabled by design. Unless you're driving a 30 year old car, it's probably true that your car has features turned off that are meant for other models. Since you're on HN, there's a reasonable chance that the company you work for releases a product with "artificially limited" features. (Of course I have no idea what you do or who you work for, just making the point that hidden features are so common, the odds of me guessing right are quite good.) There are good and legitimate reasons why products turn features off, especially when the features were designed for specific hardware, with specific specs in mind, and work best with specific hardware support. Since the fallback could be a drain on performance, battery, heat, noise, safety, and last but not least user experience, it's pretty understandable why some products have features disabled, especially when the features were developed after the product was released, right?