NVIDIA RTX Spark Linux drops to 14 tok/s

This looks less like a Linux kernel failure than a serious platform-support gap: RTX Spark’s local-AI promise depends on Windows-only power-management logic.

• –MindStudio measured native Linux at roughly 21% of Windows performance, while WSL preserved near-native speed.
• –The reported cause is an encrypted power table handled by NVIDIA’s Platform Controllers and Framework; NVIDIA has not independently confirmed the explanation.
• –WSL is the practical workaround, but it forces Linux developers to retain Windows’ driver stack and manually adjust unified-memory allocation.
• –The contrast with Linux-based DGX Spark systems exposes an ecosystem split between NVIDIA’s desktop AI hardware and its Windows-focused laptop platform.