Nvidia RTX Spark encrypted firmware slows inference speed to 35% on Linux

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The article presents a hands-on review of dual-booting Linux on the Nvidia RTX Spark laptop, highlighting a discovered GPU clock throttling bug.

Key points

•A hands-on review of dual-booting Linux on the Nvidia RTX Spark laptop was conducted.
•A GPU clock throttling bug was identified during the testing.
•The article explains why WSL remains the superior choice for this setup.

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#Semiconductors & Infrastructure#LLM / Model Trends#NVIDIA #NVIDIA RTX Spark

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