NVIDIA’s new RTX Spark laptops are now on sale from $2,399, combining a Blackwell GPU and Grace CPU in a portable Windows workstation aimed at developers, creators and gamers.
NVIDIA has begun selling its RTX Spark laptops, a new class of Windows machines built around a Blackwell RTX GPU and a Grace CPU on a single superchip. In an update published on 17 October, the company said the first wave is on sale from $2,399, although NVIDIA’s own earlier press release had set the starting price at $2,599 and stressed that pricing varies by region and by manufacturer. The laptops are being sold by ASUS, Dell, HP, Lenovo, Microsoft and MSI, with more systems expected to follow.
At the heart of the platform is a design NVIDIA says can deliver up to 128GB of unified memory and as much as 1 petaflop of FP4 AI performance. The company describes RTX Spark as a combined system for AI development, creative work and gaming, and says all models run Windows 11. According to NVIDIA, MediaTek worked with it on the CPU design.
NVIDIA is pitching the machines as portable workstations for creators and developers who want to run AI models locally rather than in the cloud. The company says the laptops are slim enough to fit in a messenger bag and are designed to offer all-day battery life. It also claims they can handle AAA games at 1440p at more than 100 frames per second, while also editing 8K 4:2:2 video and rendering 3D scenes of up to 90GB, even when running on battery.
The platform supports NVIDIA’s CUDA, DLSS, OptiX, Reflex, G-SYNC and TensorRT technologies, together with hardware-accelerated video functions. NVIDIA says launch-day game support includes Cyberpunk 2077, Fortnite, Gears of War: E-Day, Marvel Rivals, World of Warcraft and NBA 2K27, with the latter using DLSS 5. The company also says Adobe Photoshop and Premiere have native RTX Spark support through beta releases available at launch, with Substance 3D to follow.
For creators, NVIDIA says Broadcast 2.3 can remove background noise from existing recordings, while beta RTX Video tools can deliver up to 4K super resolution and four times frame generation. Early reactions from Windows hardware reviewers have framed the first RTX Spark systems as serious competitors to Apple’s MacBook Pro line, particularly for AI-heavy creative work, even if the premium pricing means they remain niche products for most buyers.
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