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First Nvidia RTX Spark laptops arrive with prices from $2,599 to $7,000

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Nvidia’s new RTX Spark platform is arriving in Windows laptops from Microsoft, Asus, Dell, Lenovo, MSI and HP, with the first models scheduled to ship as early as October 16. Designed for creators, developers and local AI workloads, the systems combine an Arm-based Grace CPU with a Blackwell RTX GPU and unified memory shared between the processors.

Entry-level RTX Spark configurations start at about $2,599 with an 18-core CPU, 24GB of unified memory and 512GB of storage, according to The Verge. A 48GB Microsoft Surface Laptop Ultra is listed by Best Buy for $3,999.99, while a top Asus ProArt P16 configuration with a 20-core processor, 128GB of unified memory and 2TB of storage costs $6,999.99.

Asus has opened preorders for its 16-inch ProArt P16 and 14-inch ProArt P14. Both offer 120Hz OLED displays, Wi-Fi 7 and USB4, while the P16 has a 4K panel and the P14 a 3K display. Asus says higher-end configurations can provide up to 128GB of unified memory, 6,144 CUDA cores and one petaflop of FP4 AI performance, supporting local language models with as many as 120 billion parameters.

The initial lineup also includes MSI’s Prestige N16 Flip AI+, a convertible RTX Spark model. The new laptops are positioned to run AI models and related workloads directly on the device rather than relying entirely on cloud services.

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