Windows 11 on Arm Takes a Big Step Forward as RTX 4060 Runs With Modified Arm64 Driver
Windows 11 on Arm has reached an interesting new milestone after a developer managed to get a desktop NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 graphics card working on an Arm-based Windows system. The achievement is notable because Windows on Arm devices have traditionally relied on integrated graphics, especially in Qualcomm-powered laptops and tablets, with very limited support for discrete desktop GPUs.
The biggest obstacle has always been driver support. NVIDIA GeForce graphics cards require native Arm64 drivers to work properly on Windows 11 Arm, and until now, that support has not been available for regular desktop GeForce GPUs. A developer known as VoidTech has now shown that the hardware can function when the right driver path is created.
In a video demonstration shared online, VoidTech showed an RTX 4060 desktop GPU booting successfully on a Huawei Qingyun W510 workstation. The machine is powered by Huawei’s 24-core Kunpeng 920 Arm processor and includes 32 GB of DDR4 memory. The graphics card used in the setup was an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 with 8 GB of VRAM.
The breakthrough was made possible by modifying NVIDIA’s Arm64 driver package created for the company’s RTX Spark platform. RTX Spark was introduced as an Arm-based Windows platform, but its drivers were not designed to support standard desktop GeForce cards. By adjusting the driver, VoidTech was able to make Windows 11 Arm recognize and initialize the RTX 4060.
What makes the demonstration especially interesting is that the GPU was not simply detected as unknown hardware. According to the showcase, key graphics and compute technologies were also enabled, including DirectX 12, Vulkan, and CUDA. Windows reportedly identified the modified driver as WHQL-certified, although this should not be mistaken for official desktop GeForce support on Windows on Arm.
This does not mean users should expect to install an RTX 4060 in an Arm-based Windows PC anytime soon. The setup is experimental, unofficial, and not ready for mainstream use. Stability, compatibility, performance, updates, and long-term driver support remain major questions.
Still, the achievement is important because it proves that desktop GeForce hardware can work on Windows 11 Arm when a compatible native Arm64 driver is available. It also highlights the growing potential of Windows on Arm beyond thin laptops and low-power devices.
As Arm-based PCs continue to evolve, proper discrete GPU support could become a major turning point. If companies eventually provide official drivers for desktop graphics cards on Windows 11 Arm, it could open the door to more powerful Arm workstations, gaming systems, AI development machines, and creative PCs.
For now, VoidTech’s RTX 4060 demonstration remains a technical experiment, but it gives a glimpse of what may be possible for the future of Windows 11 on Arm.
