RTX 4060 on Windows 11 on Arm: Modders hit 20 FPS in Genshin Impact

Chinese modders have successfully forced NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 and RTX 2080 Ti graphics cards to run on Windows 11 on Arm hardware. This breakthrough matters because it proves that high-end discrete GPUs can operate on Arm-based PCs, a platform that previously lacked official desktop GPU support. Gamers and hardware enthusiasts now have proof that the Windows on Arm ecosystem can handle demanding 3D workloads, even if the current performance is limited by software translation.

Chinese modders force desktop GPUs to run on Arm hardware using modified drivers

The tests relied on a modified 'RTX Spark' driver, which is not an official NVIDIA release for desktop GeForce cards. One test system used a Huawei Qingyun W510 workstation powered by a 24-core Kunpeng 920 processor and 32GB of DDR4-2933 memory. The RTX 4060 connected through a PCIe 4.0 x8 slot on this machine. A second test setup utilized a Radxa Orion O6 board paired with an RTX 2080 Ti graphics card.

Gaming performance on these Arm platforms suffers significantly due to x64-to-Arm instruction translation. VoidTech reported that Genshin Impact averaged only 20 FPS at 1080p resolution. Black Myth: Wukong performed slightly better with an average of 21 FPS, though frame times varied widely between 3 and 33 FPS. The Star Wars Reflections ray tracing demo also struggled, running at just 23 to 25 FPS.

Synthetic benchmark scores further highlight the translation overhead. The RTX 4060 achieved a 3DMark Night Raid score of 43,530 when running native Arm64 code. Time Spy Graphics scores reached 6,369, but this required x64 translation layers. Blender rendering tests showed the GPU utilization hitting approximately 89% during workloads, indicating the hardware itself is not the bottleneck.

NVIDIA's public RTX Spark Developer Preview currently targets upcoming dedicated systems rather than repurposing existing desktop cards. The modded driver approach suggests that broader support for Arm-based platforms with discrete GPUs may be starting, according to VoidTech. We touched on Nvidia N1X Laptop SoC Spotted Ahead in our earlier Nvidia coverage, showing the company's continued focus on Arm architecture.

These results confirm that desktop GeForce cards can physically and logically function on Windows 11 on Arm machines. The primary limitation remains the software translation layer, which caps gaming performance at playable but not high-fidelity levels. This modded driver solution offers a path for Arm PC users to access current-generation graphics hardware today.