Leaked NVIDIA RTX Spark driver gets GeForce RTX 4060 working on Windows 11 Arm
Shortly after NVIDIA released its first official GeForce driver for Windows on Arm, a Chinese modders modified the package to support other Arm platforms and desktop graphics cards. One of them ran RTX 4060 on the Huawei platform, while another used the Radxa ARM board with RTX 2080 Ti.
ARM and GeForce RTX GPUs
One the test system was a Huawei Qingyun W510 workstation with a 24-core Kunpeng 920 processor based on the Armv8.2 architecture. It also had 32GB of DDR4-2933 memory and an 8GB GeForce RTX 4060 connected through PCIe 4.0 x8. Windows required an open-source ACPI table patch because Huawei does not officially support the operating system on this hardware.
© VoidTech Another platform used Radxa Orion O6 together with RTX 2080 Ti:
© RPG-Lover This is how they look by the way:
In terms of gaming gaming performance. They were obviously limited by processor and Windows’ x64-to-Arm translation. In VoidTech testing, Genshin Impact averaged around 20 FPS at 1080p. The Black Myth: Wukong benchmark averaged about 21 FPS, with results ranging from 3 to 33 FPS. NVIDIA’s Star Wars Reflections ray tracing demo operated at around 23 to 25 FPS.
Native Arm64 3DMark tests produced scores of 43,530 in Night Raid, 32,370 in Solar Bay and 2,252 in Speed Way. Time Spy still ran through x64 translation and returned a graphics score of 6,369 (RTX 4060 normally scores 10,393 points in this benchmark). The x64 version of Blender also detected the RTX 4060 through CUDA, with GPU usage reaching around 89% during rendering.
VoidTech believes NVIDIA’s unified driver may allow similar tests with GeForce RTX 20, RTX 30, RTX 40 and RTX 50 graphics cards. So far we can confirm that anotehr user ran RTX 2080Ti. NVIDIA’s public RTX Spark Developer Preview currently targets upcoming RTX Spark systems, so the test does not represent official Windows on Arm support for desktop GeForce cards.
I guess this is the start of a new era, where broader support for Arm-based platforms with discrete GPUs is starting. It’s quite obvious that RTX Spark will remain out of reach for most consumers, but NVIDIA’s Arm drivers could still give users another hardware option.
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