📅 Nvidia has announced its RTX Spark-powered laptops and mini PCs will arrive in October
💪 Devices will be offered in two SKUs, with the top spec having a GPU equivalent in spec to an RTX 5070
🚀 That’s paired with a 20-core CPU and between 24GB and 128GB of unified memory
💻 The lower-end spec chip, destined more for laptops, has a 5120 CUDA core GPU, an 18-core Grace CPU, and between 24GB and 32GB of unified memory
Nvidia has announced RTX Spark-powered laptops and mini PCs will arrive in two different configurations, and we don’t have long to wait.
The N1X chip that Nvidia first unveiled at Computex 2026 will make its way into two different configurations in October, so just under a month, as per The Verge.
You’ll be able to purchase an RTX Spark N1X laptop in two specs. The top spec comes with an RTX Blackwell GPU with 6144 CUDA cores (the same number as an RTX 5070), which comes paired with a 20-core Grace CPU and between 24GB and 128GB of unified memory. This particular chip is designed for both high-end laptops and mini PCs such as Microsoft’s Surface RTX Spark Dev Box.
The cut-down spec has a 5120 CUDA core GPU with an 18-core Grace CPU and between 24GB and 32GB of unified memory. This is the one we expect more conventional laptops to use, with devices coming from Microsoft, Asus, Dell, HP, Lenovo and MSI.
Nvidia hasn’t provided concrete performance figures for these, but said at the time of the announcement at Computex that RTX Spark could render a 90GB 3D scene, edit 12K-res video or play Indiana Jones and the Great Circle at 100fps at 1440p resolution, all on battery power.
We know of devices such as new Asus ProArt laptops, a 2-in-1 convertible from MSI, and Microsoft’s Surface Laptop Ultra. We can expect RTX Spark in laptops in anything from 14-inch to 16-inch chassis with a lower weight of 3lbs.
The other key thing we don’t know is pricing, although with the current memory crisis and the power on offer, we don’t expect these laptops to come cheap.
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Reece Bithrey is a journalist with bylines for Trusted Reviews, Digital Foundry, PC Gamer, TechRadar and more. He also has his own blog, UNTITLED, and graduated from the University of Leeds with a degree in International History and Politics in 2023.