A developer has pulled off something Nvidia never officially supported: running a desktop RTX 4060 graphics card on Windows 11 ARM. The experiment shows that Nvidia’s newer ARM64 drivers, originally built for its upcoming RTX Spark hardware, can be repurposed to drive existing GeForce cards on ARM-based Windows systems.
How VoidTech Got the RTX 4060 Working on Kunpeng 920 ARM Hardware
A modder posting on Bilibili under the name VoidTech connected an RTX 4060 to a Huawei Qingyun W510 workstation powered by a Kunpeng 920 processor, an ARM-based chip built on the same architecture family as Snapdragon silicon. Windows 11 does not officially support Huawei’s ARM hardware, so the developer first had to fix broken ACPI tables using an open-source patch from the dixyes/d920s10 project just to get Windows to boot on the machine.
Getting Windows running was only step one. GeForce drivers are compiled for x64 processors, and while Windows can translate many regular apps to run on ARM, it cannot translate kernel-level drivers like GPU drivers. The breakthrough came when the developer extracted a native ARM64 Nvidia driver, version 590, from Nvidia’s RTX Spark software and installed it on the desktop RTX 4060. Windows detected the card immediately and enabled DirectX 12 and Vulkan support, with the card even showing up as WHQL-certified in Windows’ own diagnostics tools.
RTX 4060 Windows 11 ARM Benchmarks: FPS in Genshin Impact, Wukong, and 3DMark
Performance tells a mixed story. The Kunpeng 920’s weak single-core speed, combined with the overhead of translating x64 game code to ARM64, drags down real-world gaming numbers significantly.
| Game (1080p) | Result |
|---|---|
| Genshin Impact | ~20 FPS across Fontaine and Mondstadt |
| Black Myth: Wukong | ~21 FPS average, peaking at 33 and dipping as low as 3 |
| Star Wars Reflections ray tracing demo | 23 to 25 FPS |
Native ARM64 benchmarks fared better since they skip the translation penalty entirely.
| 3DMark Test | Score | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Night Raid | 43,530 | Native ARM64 |
| Solar Bay | 32,370 | Native ARM64 |
| Speed Way | 2,252 | Native ARM64 |
| Time Spy Graphics | 6,369 | Still runs through x64 translation, below the card’s typical native score |
Blender’s CUDA renderer also detected the RTX 4060 correctly, pushing GPU usage to around 89% during a render test, though Blender itself was still running through the translation layer.
Why the RTX 4060 Still Can’t Output Video or Run Anti-Cheat Games on ARM
The setup has real gaps that stop it from being practical. The Huawei board cannot output video directly through the RTX 4060, so the developer had to stream the desktop to another device using Sunshine and Moonlight just to see anything on screen. Kernel-level anti-cheat is another blocker: Arknights: Endfield refused to launch entirely, likely due to a conflict between its Anti-Cheat Expert system and the ARM translation layer. The Huawei board’s network card also lacks Windows drivers, so several onboard components simply don’t work under Windows at all.
There’s also no native Windows on ARM CUDA toolkit outside of WSL yet, which means CUDA-based apps like Blender still have to run as x64 builds rather than natively.
What This Means for RTX Spark
Nvidia built this ARM64 driver for its RTX Spark project, a system based on Qualcomm’s Cortex-X925 CPU cores, rather than for existing desktop GeForce cards. Since the driver is based on Nvidia’s unified architecture, the developer believes it could theoretically extend to other RTX generations, including the RTX 20, 30, 40, and 50 series. A separate tester has already reportedly run an RTX 2080 Ti on a different ARM board using the same approach.
For now, this remains a proof of concept rather than something most people can replicate easily. It does suggest that when RTX Spark laptops arrive, their gaming performance could benefit from drivers that are already further along than expected, kernel-level anti-cheat support permitting.
Frequently Asked Questions
Can I install this ARM64 Nvidia driver on my own Windows ARM device?
The driver was extracted from Nvidia’s RTX Spark software and is not officially released for desktop GeForce cards, so installing it requires manual extraction and carries no official support from Nvidia.
Does the RTX 4060 work as a proper gaming GPU on Windows 11 ARM?
Not reliably. Performance is heavily limited by the ARM processor’s weak single-core speed and the overhead of translating x64 games, and games with kernel-level anti-cheat may not launch at all.
Why couldn’t the developer get a video signal from the RTX 4060?
The ARM64 driver appears to be built specifically for RTX Spark hardware and likely lacks the code needed to support HDMI and DisplayPort output on desktop graphics cards, so the developer had to stream the display to another device instead.
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