ASUS has announced that its ProArt P16 and P14 laptops, powered by NVIDIA RTX Spark, are now available for purchase in Canada. Select configurations are shipping starting today through the ASUS Store, Amazon Canada, Best Buy Canada, Memory Express and Newegg Canada.
The laptops are aimed at creators, AI developers and workflow builders. They combine high-capacity unified memory, an NVIDIA Blackwell RTX GPU and an NVIDIA Grace CPU to support demanding local AI and creative workloads. NVIDIA RTX Spark offers up to 1 petaflop of FP4 AI performance and up to 128 GB of high-bandwidth unified memory, allowing users to run large language and vision-language models, image and video generation pipelines, LoRA customization and complex 3D scenes directly on the device.
ASUS is also promoting an ASUS-exclusive agent-and-application solution. Hermes Agent and Comfy UI together offer a local-first experience that can connect to cloud services when needed. Dillon Rolnick, CEO of Nous Research, said the memory capacity lets Hermes drive Comfy UI and work with users' files on their own machine. Yoland Yan, CEO and co-founder of Comfy, said the PCs make big image and video workflows possible locally.
ASUS argues that local AI offers three main advantages: predictable computing costs without per-token or per-generation charges, greater privacy for prompts and project files, and more control over models and tools. Cloud services remain useful for frontier-scale models and burst capacity, and users can choose local, cloud or hybrid execution. Cloud-connected tools may transmit data off device and incur additional fees.
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