According to Nvidia, RTX Spark delivers up to 1 petaflop of AI performance and up to 128 GB of unified memory, enabling systems to run large language models with 120 billion parameters locally.
Nvidia has lined up multiple major PC manufacturers for release. The company says RTX Spark laptops and compact desktops will be available this fall from Asus, Dell, HP, Lenovo, Microsoft Surface and MSI, with models from Acer and Gigabyte to follow. Dell plans to bring the platform to the XPS 16 Creator Edition, while HP said its upcoming OmniBooks, powered by Nvidia, will be targeted at agent developers. Microsoft positions Surface Laptop Ultra for creators, developers, and engineers.
Microsoft is also introducing the Surface RTX Spark Dev Box. It’s a compact Windows AI developer PC designed to help developers build and tune models locally before turning to the cloud for large-scale workloads.
This could create a premium tier above mainstream AI PCs powered by Intel, AMD, and Qualcomm chips, leading to higher average selling prices in a PC market with uneven growth. It may also raise questions about whether current AI PCs have enough local computing power to handle the more ambitious AI workloads that software makers and chip companies are currently pushing.
