Nvidia RTX Spark laptops open for preorder from $2,599, ship Oct 16
Microsoft's Surface Laptop Ultra is the first RTX Spark laptop on sale, with an Nvidia Arm chip that pairs a Grace CPU with a Blackwell GPU.
Nvidia now has its own chip for Windows laptops. The first one, a Microsoft Surface, can be preordered from $2,599 and has a strong graphics part and lots of memory in a thin body. Wait for reviews before paying that much.
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This is Nvidia's first Windows laptop chip. It puts a big GPU and up to 128GB of shared memory in a thin laptop, but the price is high.
Watch: it shows where thin AI laptops are heading.
The details
- Preorders opened Oct 7; Nvidia says laptops ship Oct 16 and compact desktops follow in November.
- Surface Laptop Ultra starts at $2,599 and tops out at $5,899.99 across eight configurations.
- Base model: 18-core CPU, 5,120-core Blackwell GPU, 24GB shared memory, 512GB SSD.
- Top chip: 20-core CPU, 6,144-core GPU, up to 128GB memory. Nvidia claims up to 1 petaflop of FP4 AI compute.
- Nvidia lists Acer, ASUS, Dell, HP, Lenovo, Microsoft, MSI and Gigabyte as partners.
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