A developer was successful in booting an RTX 4060 desktop GPU on Windows 11 Arm system by modifying RTX Spark Arm64 drivers.
Windows 11 Arm Reaches New Milestone As NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Boots With Arm64 Driver
Up until now, Windows on Arm largely remained limited to Qualcomm-powered systems and mostly utilized integrated graphics. It was impossible to run NVIDIA GeForce GPUs due to one major roadblock, which is the lack of native Arm64 graphics drivers. However, this roadblock has been removed by a developer who successfully got an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 running on Windows 11 ARM.
This project was carried out by a developer known by the name "VoidTech", who uploaded a video on Bilibili demonstrating the process. The user was able to boot the graphics card on his Huawei Qingyun W510 workstation, which is powered by Huawei's 24-core Kunpeng 920 Arm processor. The system also featured 32 GB of DDR4 RAM and the GeForce RTX 4060 desktop GPU with 8 GB of VRAM.
VoidTech made it possible by modifying NVIDIA's recently released Arm64 driver package that was originally made for the company's RTX Spark platform. NVIDIA's RTX Spark was introduced earlier this year as its new Arm-based Windows platform, but the drivers were never intended to support desktop GeForce graphics cards. However, by modifying the driver, the developer enabled Windows 11 Arm to properly recognize the RTX 4060.
As per the demonstration, the GPU wasn't merely detected by the operating system; DirectX 12, Vulkan, and CUDA support were also enabled. Windows also identified the modified driver as WHQL-certified, but keep in mind that this isn't an official certification for desktop GeForce GPUs on Windows on Arm.
Even though this implementation looks impressive, it's far from consumer-ready. Nonetheless, this does prove that the GeForce hardware can function on Windows 11 ARM when provided with a compatible native Arm64 driver.
News Sources: Windows Latest
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