The BC-250 cards that people like me are using to build cheap SteamOS gaming PCs ship with 24 of 40 CUs active. There are OS images that allow you to activate some or all of the CUs, but it’s a roll of the silicon dice. Looks like I got lucky, as my card is running stable with all CUs active. 🍀
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