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Nvidia has officially entered the world of consumer laptop chips with the RTX Spark, and several device makers already have hardware lined up for it. Microsoft, Asus, HP, MSI, Lenovo, and Dell are expected to launch RTX Spark laptops sometime this fall, and some of those partner companies have shared details about what we can expect.
The common feature shared by all of the upcoming launches is that Arm-based Nvidia RTX Spark superchip, though several variations are in the pipeline. The flagship version unveiled by Nvidia at Computex includes 20 CPU cores, 6,144 GPU cores, and 128GB of LPDDR5X memory — making it near identical to the GB10 chip inside Nvidia’s DGX Spark “personal AI supercomputer.” Other versions with as little as 16GB of memory will come later, according to Nvidia.
So, aside from the new chipset, here’s everything we know so far about the upcoming RTX Spark laptops:
Microsoft Surface Laptop Ultra
Microsoft has provided a handful of details about its upcoming RTX Spark-powered Surface Laptop Ultra. We don’t have its final specifications or even a price, but we do know that the Surface Laptop will have a 15-inch mini-LED touchscreen with 2,000 nits of peak HDR brightness. Microsoft says this is the “brightest display we’ve ever shipped,” and that it provides 262 pixels per inch and “high-precision color accuracy.”
The Surface Laptop Ultra will feature ports for HDMI, USB-C, USB-A, SD card, and a headphone jack, though Microsoft hasn’t specified what speed or version these will be running. The haptic touchpad is also “the largest we’ve ever put on a Surface,” according to Microsoft. The company also claims that this is “the most powerful Surface Laptop ever built,” though without full specifications to back that up, we won’t know for sure until we can test it ourselves later this year.
Display: 15-inch mini-LED PixelSense Ultra touchscreen with HDR
Brightness: Up to 2,000 nits
Ports: HDMI, USB-C, USB-A, SD card, headphone
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