Chinese modder gets GeForce RTX 4060 working in Windows 11 on Huawei Arm workstation — uses modified driver borrowed from an Nvidia RTX Spark

A Chinese hardware modder known as VoidTech has successfully gotten an Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060 8GB graphics card working in Windows 11 on a Huawei Qingyun W510 Arm workstation, using a modified driver borrowed from Nvidia's RTX Spark platform. The Qingyun W510, powered by Huawei's own Kunpeng 920 processor — a 7nm Arm v8 server chip from HiSilicon with 24 custom TaiShan v110 cores — was never designed for Windows, but the mod demonstrates the feasibility of running discrete x86 GPUs on Arm-based Windows systems through driver modifications pioneered by the RTX Spark ecosystem. Tom's Hardware characterizes the effort as a "janky first attempt" at proving the concept, with results that are more impressive for existing than for gaming performance.

The benchmarks tell a story of GPU capability constrained by CPU bottleneck. The Kunpeng 920's single-core Passmark score of 733 is roughly one-sixth that of a Ryzen 7 5800X (3,448), and its relatively small caches and DDR4 memory interface tuned for throughput rather than latency create a significant bottleneck for gaming workloads. In Genshin Impact at 1080p High, the RTX 4060 managed only ~25 FPS with frequent stuttering, compared to the 60 FPS cap the same card achieves on an x86 system. Black Myth Wukong at 1080p Medium reached just 21 FPS versus 83 FPS on the reference x86 platform. 3DMark results showed the RTX 4060's GPU capabilities partially shining through — Speed Way scored 2,252 (vs 2,682 on x86), Time Spy Graphics reached 6,369 (vs 10,939), and Night Raid GPU hit 43,530 (vs 61,080) — but the CPU-limited tests like Time Spy CPU (3,402 vs 10,775) revealed the Kunpeng 920's fundamental limitations. Notably, Arknights: Endfield refused to launch entirely, likely due to incompatibility between its "Anti-Cheat Expert" package and the Prism emulation layer required to run x86 games on Arm Windows.

For Canadian consumers following RTX Spark's development ahead of its Fall 2026 launch, the VoidTech mod serves as both an encouraging proof-of-concept and a cautionary tale. On the positive side, the fact that a third-party modder could get a standard GeForce RTX 4060 working on an Arm Windows system by borrowing RTX Spark driver components validates NVIDIA's approach of building native Arm64 GPU drivers for its platform — the same driver stack that will power consumer RTX Spark laptops and compact desktops from Microsoft, ASUS, Dell, HP, Lenovo, and MSI. However, the severe performance penalties from running x86-emulated games on an Arm CPU that was never designed for Windows gaming highlight the critical importance of native Arm64 game optimization and the advantages of NVIDIA's tightly integrated N1X superchip design over jury-rigged discrete GPU configurations. The mod also reinforces the importance of game compatibility testing — particularly for titles with restrictive anti-cheat systems — as a key consideration for Canadian early adopters evaluating the RTX Spark platform's gaming readiness at launch.