Nvidia made a big splash at Computex this week by announcing RTX Spark, a new slice of silicon shipping in laptops this fall. RTX Spark unites an Nvidia CPU and GPU in a single System-on-Chip with up to 128GB of memory. …
… It's a compelling case, and while the initial wave of RTX Spark-powered laptops won't be the best fit for 24/7 AI agents given that they snooze when their lids are closed, I can eventually see a fleet of mini PC systems that would stay on all the time, complete with RTX Spark-powered AI under their… …
… Beyond the RTX Spark chip Arm-based, 20 cores, 6,144 CUDA cores, RTX 5000-series graphics performance , the only hardware specification mentioned so far is 128GB of RAM. …
… You can expect the same for RTX Spark laptops from other vendors, too. These Spark designs will also need a lot more RAM — like handheld gaming PCs and AMD's impressive Strix Halo series, it shares memory between system RAM and graphics. …
… You can learn more about why N1X is big news for laptops and how Nvidia's RTX Spark is going to shake things up, but in this case, Nvidia's new N1X chip will be installed in the new Surface Laptop Ultra, which is said to be suitable as a full-fledged gaming platform for the first time. …
… Cheap Windows laptops are in a really good place right now too, and I expect they’ll get even more capable thanks to performance improvements in affordable Intel Wildcat Lake and Qualcomm Snapdragon C laptops debuting this year. …