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Story 5 of 10 in the Friday 16 October editionNVIDIA RTX Spark laptops go on sale from $2,599 with up to 128GB of memory
The Windows laptops from six makers put an NVIDIA GPU and CPU on one chip, built to run AI models and agents locally as well as creative apps and games.
Edited by Ashutosh Shrivastava
17 Oct 2026, 10:30 IST · 1 min read
RTX Spark laptops went on sale worldwide on 16 October 2026, on their makers’ websites and at major retailers. Prices start at $2,599 and vary by region. Preorders opened on 7 October, and compact desktops with the same chip go on sale in November.
Each laptop is built on one superchip that pairs a Blackwell RTX GPU with a Grace CPU designed with MediaTek. Its up to 128GB of unified memory is shared by both, and it delivers up to 1 petaflop of AI performance in FP4, a compact 4-bit number format for running models.
The lineup:
- ASUS ProArt P14 and P16
- Dell XPS 16
- HP OmniBook Ultra and OmniBook X 14
- Lenovo Yoga Pro 9n
- Microsoft Surface Laptop Ultra
- MSI Prestige N16 Flip AI+ and Prestige N16
For developers, NVIDIA and Microsoft prepared the first PyTorch-CUDA build for Windows on Arm, a native Conda installer and support for 97% of the top 15,000 Python packages. Guided installers set up agents such as GitHub Copilot, Hermes and OpenClaw without a command line. NVIDIA’s Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B 24GB, a 74-billion-parameter model built for tool calling, runs locally on supported configurations.
Sources
- PrimaryNVIDIA RTX Spark PCs Available Today: A New Beginning for Windows PCsnvidianews.nvidia.com · NVIDIA press release, 16 October 2026
- OfficialNVIDIA, Microsoft Kick Off a New Beginning for Windows PCs With RTX Spark and AI Agentsblogs.nvidia.com · NVIDIA blog, 7 October 2026, on preorders, desktops and local models
- On X@NVIDIAGeForce on X: introducing RTX Spark, a new beginning for Windows PCsx.com · NVIDIA GeForce’s launch post
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