Hacker News · 300+· novaRom·· 10 days ago
Nvidia RTX Spark encrypted firmware slows inference speed to 35% on Linux
Nvidia RTX Spark encrypted firmware slows inference speed to 35% on Linux
Brief overview
Nvidia RTX Spark laptop reduces GPU clock frequency to 780 MHz due to encrypted firmware under Linux, inference speed drops from 65.4 tokens/s on Windows to 13.9 tokens/s, WSL remains at 65.1 tokens/s. Memory allocation issues make Linux only see 28GB by default, requiring Windows adjustments.
Source: Hacker News · 300+ · mindstudio.ai