… It will also eventually go up against a new wave of systems powered by NVIDIA's RTX Spark , which was also announced at Computex 2026. The impact of RTX Spark and NVIDIA's entrance into the PC market outside of discrete graphics cards and mobile GPUs will take some time to play out and assess. …
… Interested buyers can configure the system with 16GB or 24GB of LPDDR5X memory, paired with an Intel Core Ultra 5 325 processor and 256GB, 512GB, or 1TB of removable PCIe 4.0 solid state drive SSD storage. …
… Initially there will be three main Core Ultra 300 series chip configurations, an 8 CPU core variant 4P, 4LPE with a 4-core GPU tile, a 16 CPU core variant 4P, 8E, 4LPE with the same 4-core GPU tile, and a top-end 16 CPU core model also 4P, 8E, 4LPE with a much higher performing 12-core GPU tile – t… …
… "Versus a five-year-old PC, Intel Core Series 3 delivers up to 47% better single thread performance, up to 41% better multi thread performance, and up to 2.8x better GPU AI performance. …
… The chips will also use a unified memory architecture in which the CPU and GPU share the total available pool of system memory. …
… It also wields 34MB of total cache, an Adreno GPU that can crank to 1.7GHz, and a dedicated hexagon NPU delivering up to 80 TOPS of AI muscle. Other features include support for up to 128GB of LPDDR5X memory at 9,523 MT/s on a 128-bit bus for up to 152GB/s of memory bandwidth. …
… Remember, like AMD's Ryzen AI Max processors, the RTX Spark can be equipped with up to 128GB of RAM, and that means it can handle large 70B-parameter AI models that simply can't be loaded on even the largest discrete laptop GPUs. …
… Intel says 18A-P reduces thermal resistance by a third improving conductivity by 50% and offers an 18% efficiency improvement at the same clock rates over the current 18A process; those are huge gains for a process refinement, and should translate directly into making Diamond Rapids more competitiv… …
… It's got a full-fat GB10 Superchip inside, which has the 20-core Arm64 processor with 10 Cortex X925 and 10 Cortex A725 cores, the Blackwell-based GPU with 6,144 CUDA cores, offering up to a full petaFLOP 1,000 teraFLOP of sparse FP4 performance, and that very large 128 GB pool of LPDDR5X memory on… …
… That pairing is key, especially for AI-accelerated workflows and integrated Arc graphics performance, because bandwidth plays a critical role in how well the GPU cores stretch their legs. …