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NVIDIA RTX Spark Grace-Blackwell laptops on sale from six OEMs at $2,599

The gist

NVIDIA is entering the Windows laptop CPU market for the first time, bringing its CUDA software ecosystem to the Windows desktop alongside the hardware. The launch puts NVIDIA in direct competition with Intel, AMD, Qualcomm, and Apple in premium PC chips, according to one source.

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The full picture

NVIDIA RTX Spark laptops, combining a Blackwell GPU and Grace CPU into a single superchip built with MediaTek, went on sale globally on October 16 starting at $2,599. Nine models are shipping from ASUS, Dell, HP, Lenovo, Microsoft, and MSI, including the Dell XPS 16 and Microsoft Surface Laptop Ultra. The superchip offers up to 128GB unified memory and up to 1 petaflop of FP4 AI performance, with designs as thin as 14mm and as light as three pounds. Adobe Photoshop and Premiere support RTX Spark through beta releases, and hundreds of games run on the platform with DLSS and ray tracing. Alongside the hardware, NVIDIA shipped Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe, an open-weight speech model ranking first on the Hugging Face Open ASR leaderboard, a GPU resource-sharing control in the NVIDIA App for managing compute between foreground apps and background AI agents, and support for Black Forest Labs' FLUX 3 Image Klein, a 5.6B-parameter image generation model that runs with as little as 8GB VRAM.

How it developed
28 October 2026

NVIDIA published software updates including Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe, GPU resource controls in the NVIDIA App, and FLUX 3 Image Klein support; Phantom Blade Zero launched with DLSS 4.5

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