Nvidia’s RTX Spark Laptops Start at $2,599 as Sales Begin

Nvidia’s RTX Spark laptops began selling Friday, Oct. 16, putting its Arm-based Windows and Blackwell graphics platform into lineups from six manufacturers, with prices starting at $2,599.

Available systems come from ASUS, Dell, HP, Lenovo, Microsoft and MSI. Prices and configurations vary by region. The laptops run Windows 11 and pair Arm-based processors with Blackwell graphics. The top N1X configuration has a 20-core CPU and a Blackwell GPU with 6,144 cores, plus up to 128GB of LPDDR5X unified memory and a stated AI performance of 1 petaflop.

A second configuration has 18 CPU cores, 5,120 GPU cores, up to 32GB of memory and a listed AI performance of 827 teraflops. Unified memory is shared by the processor and graphics chip. Nvidia and Microsoft are positioning that design for local AI and creative workloads as well as gaming. The launch follows a prelaunch software rollout for RTX Spark that broadened its support for local AI, creative applications and games.

Microsoft’s Prism emulator supports 32-bit and 64-bit x86 applications on Windows on Arm. Photoshop and Premiere also have native versions for the platform.

Standard work applications generally functioned across five laptops tested over a week, while game results varied by title and visual settings. In Cyberpunk 2077 at 2,560 × 1,600 resolution, Ultra settings averaged 41 frames per second on an Asus ProArt P16 and 46 fps on an HP OmniBook Ultra. With Ultra ray tracing and DLSS Quality, the laptops averaged 30 fps and 35 fps. With 4× DLSS frame generation, reported rates were 92 fps and 103 fps, respectively.

The tested Asus ProArt P16 configuration was priced at $6,999.99, and the HP OmniBook Ultra configuration at $3,199.99. Those figures apply to the tested configurations, while the lineup’s starting price is $2,599.

“RTX Spark brings the power of NVIDIA AI, RTX graphics and CUDA together with Microsoft Windows in one PC for creating, gaming and running personal AI agents,” Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang said.