Nvidia said RTX Spark will offer up to 1 petaflop of AI performance and up to 128GB of unified memory, allowing systems to run 120-billion-parameter large language models locally.
Nvidia has lined up several major PC makers for the launch. The company said 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 is bringing the platform to its XPS 16 Creator Edition, while HP said upcoming OmniBooks powered by Nvidia will target agentic developers. Microsoft is positioning its Surface Laptop Ultra for creators, developers, and engineers.
Microsoft is also introducing the Surface RTX Spark Dev Box, a compact Windows AI developer PC designed to let developers build and refine models locally before turning to the cloud for larger workloads.
That could create a premium tier above mainstream AI PCs based on Intel, AMD and Qualcomm chips, helping lift average selling prices in a PC market where growth has been uneven. It could also raise questions about whether current AI PCs have enough local computing power for the more ambitious AI workloads that software makers and chip companies are now promoting.
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