mindstudio.ai/blog/linux-nvidia-rtx-spark-laptop Nvidia RTX Spark encrypted firmware slows inference speed to 35% on Linux
Testing on an MSI Prestige RTX Spark laptop found native Linux limited GPT-OSS-120B to 13.9 tokens per second when plugged in, versus 65.4 on Windows. The slowdown is attributed to a Windows-only Nvidia platform controller whose encrypted power table Linux cannot decrypt, while WSL retains Windows-level GPU clocks.