Nvidia unveils RTX Spark, an AI chip for laptops and desktops

Nvidia has officially announced RTX Spark, a new family of chips marking the company’s entry into the consumer PC processor market, competing with Intel, AMD, Apple, and Qualcomm.

As reported by The Verge on Monday local time, the chip combines an Arm-based CPU, Blackwell GPU, and AI capabilities in a single package.

The highest variant of RTX Spark features 20 CPU cores, 6,144 GPU cores, and up to 128GB of LPDDR5X memory.

Like Apple and Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X, RTX Spark uses an Arm architecture.

As a result, older x86-based Windows applications must still run through emulation.

However, Nvidia believes Windows optimisation and Microsoft’s Prism emulator will help deliver a better experience.

Nvidia claims RTX Spark can handle demanding workloads, from rendering 90GB 3D scenes and editing 12K video to running ‘Indiana Jones and the Great Circle’ at 100 fps in 1440p resolution.

With up to 128GB of unified memory, the chip can also run AI agents with up to 120 billion parameters locally on the device.

Nvidia describes this as the start of a new personal computing paradigm where AI becomes the primary user interface.

Eight RTX Spark-based laptops are confirmed to launch this autumn, including models from Asus, Dell, HP, Lenovo, MSI, and Microsoft.

Nvidia states over 30 laptops and 10 desktops are in development by its partners.

Despite promising high performance and better power efficiency, Nvidia has not yet disclosed pricing or official specifications.

The company only noted that the first-generation devices will target the premium segment and offer graphics performance equivalent to the GeForce RTX 5070 laptop GPU.