NVIDIA's RTX Spark is an AI "superchip" that will power Windows laptops and desktops
Key takeaways
- The company claims it offers 1 petaflop of AI computing power.
- NVIDIA It was only a matter of time before NVIDIA released a powerful system-on-a-chip (SOC) to take on AMD's Ryzen AI Max and Qualcomm's latest Snapdragon X2 chips.
- NVIDIA isn't diving deep into the technical aspects of the RTX Spark just yet, but the company says it offers 1 petaflop of AI computing power, and that it has 6,144 Blackwell RTX cores and 20 Mediatek Arm CPU cores.
The company claims it offers 1 petaflop of AI computing power.
NVIDIA It was only a matter of time before NVIDIA released a powerful system-on-a-chip (SOC) to take on AMD's Ryzen AI Max and Qualcomm's latest Snapdragon X2 chips. At Computex today, NVIDIA unveiled the RTX Spark, a "superchip" meant to give both laptops and small desktops fast AI and graphics performance. You can think of it as a portable sibling to the company's $3,999 DGX spark AI mini-desktop, except it's built for Windows instead of Linux. RTX Spark will powering new laptops including the Surface Surface Laptop Ultra and Dell XPS 16, as well as systems from "every single major OEM," according to NVIDIA.
NVIDIA isn't diving deep into the technical aspects of the RTX Spark just yet, but the company says it offers 1 petaflop of AI computing power, and that it has 6,144 Blackwell RTX cores and 20 Mediatek Arm CPU cores. NVIDIA claims it's similar to the RTX 5070 laptop GPU but with much lower power draw. RTX Spark also has an NPU that's fast enough to be part of Microsoft's Copilot+ initiative, which requires a 40 TOPS NPU, but NVIDIA says it's mainly touting the tensor cores as part of the chip's Blackwell GPU for AI performance.