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NVIDIA RTX Spark Grace-Blackwell laptops

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Latest: RTX Spark Grace-Blackwell Laptops on Sale From Six OEMs at $2,599

NVIDIA is bringing its CUDA software ecosystem to the Windows PC market, competing with Intel, AMD, Qualcomm, and Apple in premium laptops. The unified memory architecture and AI performance figures represent a different hardware design from conventional discrete GPU laptops.

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NVIDIA's RTX Spark laptops went on sale globally on October 16, with nine models from ASUS, Dell, HP, Lenovo, Microsoft, and MSI starting at $2,599, including the Dell XPS 16 and Microsoft Surface Laptop Ultra. The Grace Blackwell superchip, built with MediaTek, delivers up to 1 petaflop of FP4 AI performance and up to 128GB unified memory; NVIDIA says this lets a laptop handle tasks previously requiring a desktop workstation. Designs reach as thin as 14mm and as light as three pounds with all-day battery life. Adobe Photoshop and Premiere offer native RTX Spark support through beta releases, and hundreds of games run on RTX Spark with DLSS, ray tracing, Reflex, and G-SYNC.

On the software side, Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe, Liquid AI LFM3 models, and a PyTorch CUDA build for Windows on Arm shipped at or around launch. A new resource management feature in the NVIDIA App lets RTX Spark users shift GPU priority between foreground applications and background AI agents, accessible under System > Advanced and requiring hardware-accelerated GPU scheduling in Windows Settings. Black Forest Labs' FLUX 3 Image Klein, a 5.6B-parameter image generation and editing model, runs on RTX Spark with NVIDIA-optimized versions requiring as little as 8GB VRAM and can be fine-tuned locally using an NVIDIA NeMo AutoModel recipe.

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28 October 2026added 29 Oct

Nine RTX Spark laptops from ASUS, Dell, HP, Lenovo, Microsoft, and MSI went on sale October 16 starting at $2,599, using the Grace Blackwell superchip with up to 1 petaflop FP4 performance and 128GB unified memory.

Software at launch includes Adobe Photoshop and Premiere betas, Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe, Liquid AI LFM3, a PyTorch CUDA build for Windows on Arm, and Black Forest Labs' FLUX 3 Image Klein. A new NVIDIA App setting lets users shift GPU priority between foreground apps and background AI agents.

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