NVIDIA's highly anticipated foray into the world of complete laptop designs is scheduled for October 7, as revealed in a new teaser on X. A post by Microsoft's @Windows handle, corroborated by the NVIDIA RTX Spark X account, confirms that October 7 is the launch date for the new RTX Spark lineup of mini PCs and laptops. For instance, ASUS recently teased an October launch for the RTX Spark platform with its upcoming ProArt 16 creator laptop, powered by the NVIDIA RTX Spark N1X Arm SoC. Today, we have a concrete date marking NVIDIA's entry into this sector.
NVIDIA is already enabling software tools to support and utilize RTX Spark silicon, with the recent launch of RTX Kit 2026.3 alongside version 2.0 of its RTX Mega Geometry SDK. These provide game developers with new neural rendering and path tracing tools. Acer, ASUS, Dell, MSI, HP, Microsoft, Lenovo, and many other OEMs will be launch partners for the platform.
The upcoming N1X SoC for the RTX Spark PC platform will come in two configurations. The top-end model will feature a 20-core "Grace" CPU and a GPU with 6,144 CUDA cores based on the "Blackwell" microarchitecture. NVIDIA envisions this version for both laptops and mini PCs, offering between 24 GB and 128 GB of LPDDR5X unified memory. The second configuration is slightly less powerful, with an 18-core "Grace" CPU, a "Blackwell" GPU with 5,120 CUDA cores, and 24-32 GB of LPDDR5X unified memory. This version is specifically aimed at laptops, which will be classified as Copilot+ AI PCs running Windows 11 for Arm.
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