NVIDIA's RTX Spark laptops are on sale, from US$2,599
One chip with an Arm CPU, a Blackwell GPU and up to 128GB of shared memory. Early testing likes the speed, not the price.
NVIDIA's Windows PC superchip went on sale on 16 October. RTX Spark puts an NVIDIA Grace CPU, designed with MediaTek, and a Blackwell RTX GPU on one chip with up to 128GB of unified memory. NVIDIA says laptops from ASUS, Dell, HP, Lenovo, Microsoft and MSI are available globally from US$2,599, with prices and configurations varying by region.
The launch models are the ASUS ProArt P14 and P16, Dell XPS 16, HP OmniBook Ultra and OmniBook X 14, Lenovo Yoga Pro 9n, Microsoft Surface Laptop Ultra, and MSI Prestige N16 Flip AI+ and Prestige N16. NVIDIA lists Cyberpunk 2077, Fortnite, Marvel Rivals, World of Warcraft and NBA 2K27 among the games supported at launch.
There are two versions of the chip. Tom's Hardware and PC Gamer report that the full one has a 20-core CPU and a 6,144-core GPU, while a cut-down one has 18 CPU cores and 5,120 GPU cores. Tom's Hardware says it has only seen the smaller chip in 24GB and 32GB models, so read the listing before you buy.
PC Gamer's early testing on an ASUS ProArt P16 found it close to RTX 5070 laptops in Black Myth: Wukong and Metro, but much slower in Baldur's Gate 3, while drawing far less power, but it called the price "utterly punitive" next to dedicated gaming laptops. It also notes that EA's Javelin anti-cheat doesn't run on the platform yet, so Battlefield and EA Sports FC are off the table for now.
Sources: NVIDIA Newsroom, Tom's Hardware, PC Gamer