Nvidia RTX Spark laptops go on sale October 16 from $2,599
Nvidia rates RTX Spark at up to 1 petaflop of FP4 AI performance with 6,144 CUDA cores and up to 128 GB of shared memory, as preorders open.
Laptops built around Nvidia's RTX Spark chip go on sale on October 16, 2026 from several manufacturers, with preorders already open, according to TechRadar. Nvidia rates RTX Spark at up to 1 petaflop of FP4 AI performance, with 6,144 CUDA cores and up to 128 GB of shared memory.
The chip's shared memory delivers about 300 GB/s of bandwidth. Nvidia claims it can run large language models of roughly 120 billion parameters locally with a one million token context window.
Microsoft is expected to field the Surface Laptop Ultra from $2,599, while Dell is bringing the XPS 16 Creator Edition from $3,799.99. Asus, HP, Lenovo and MSI are also launch partners, and Acer and Gigabyte are expected to add models later.
The incumbent
The Dell Pro Max 18 Plus is currently ranked the fastest AI laptop, with its RTX PRO 5000 chip reaching 185.1 tokens/s on Phi, 140.5 tokens/s on Mistral and 119.7 tokens/s on Llama 3. That machine launched 14 months ago; its top configuration, with an RTX PRO 5000, 128 GB of memory and two 1 TB drives, cost $9,245.52.
A similar configuration later appeared at roughly $14,000, and the laptop now sells for almost $18,600. The Dell Pro Max 18 Plus is reportedly able to handle 109 billion parameters locally, and recorded a battery endurance of three hours and 39 minutes.
Quick answers
When do Nvidia RTX Spark laptops go on sale?
They go on sale on October 16, 2026, with preorders already open.
How much do the first RTX Spark laptops cost?
Microsoft is expected to field the Surface Laptop Ultra from $2,599, and Dell is bringing the XPS 16 Creator Edition from $3,799.99.
What are the RTX Spark specifications?
Nvidia rates the chip at up to 1 petaflop of FP4 AI performance, with 6,144 CUDA cores, up to 128 GB of shared memory and about 300 GB/s of bandwidth.