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Good chat, thanks :/
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@Villan nothing to add?
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It's called Spark because it uses the 12pin power connector for the GPU.
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NVIDIA RTX Spark — Slim Laptops & Small Desktops
The fusion of NVIDIA AI and RTX graphics.
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Introducing a powerful new chapter for Windows PCs, accelerated by NVIDIA RTX Spark
Today at NVIDIA GTC, Microsoft and NVIDIA announced the world’s most powerful and efficient thin-and-light Windows PCs ever. Accelerated by NVIDIA RTX Spark
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NVIDIA announced RTX Spark chip for Windows on ARM with RTX Gaming support - VideoCardz.com
NVIDIA confirms RTX Spark PCs with Blackwell GPU, 20-core Grace CPU and DLSS support NVIDIA is turning RTX Spark into a Windows PC platform NVIDIA has
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NVIDIA N1x & N1 laptop chip specifications - VideoCardz.com
NVIDIA N1 specs This is what I call a last-minute leak. One of our insiders provided preliminary specifications for the N1 series, confirming that the
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Microsoft Surface Laptop Ultra announced with NVIDIA RTX Spark chip - VideoCardz.com
Microsoft's new Surface Laptop Ultra gets NVIDIA RTX Spark 15-inch Surface uses NVIDIA's Arm-based PC processor. Microsoft has revealed the Surface Laptop
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NVIDIA's RTX Spark Is a Direct Shot at the PC Market, Backed by a Multi-Gen Roadmap That Past 'Windows on Arm' Bids Never Had
NVIDIA unveils RTX Spark, its brand-new PC platform, designedwith Microsoft, as it starts a new chapter in the client market.
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MSI Pushes NVIDIA's RTX Spark Into The Mainstream With A Developer Mini PC And A Tandem OLED Flip Laptop
MSI launches EdgeMesa N AI+ Mini PC and Prestige N16 Flip AI+ Laptop powered by NVIDIA RTX Spark SoC with 1 PFLOP AI performance and 128 GB memory
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ASUS Unveils Revolutionary ProArt PCs Powered by NVIDIA RTX Spark at Computex 2026
At Computex2026, ASUS today announced a new generation of AI creator PCs under its ProArt lineup, powered by NVIDIA's RTX Spark. The new lineup—including the ProArt P16 (H7607) and P14 (H7407) laptops, alongside the ProArt Mini PC—is designed for AI creators, workflow builders, developers who...
RTX Spark Gives Decent First Impression Of Its Performance In Developer Workloads Benchmark, Beats M5 By 54%, Marginally Slower Than Base M5 Pro
NVIDIA’s RTX Spark is off to a decent start, with the Clang benchmark revealing that the chipset is only marginally slower than the M5 Pro
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Hmmm I probably will get Dell RTX Spark laptop with slight large 16.3 inch screen if it has touch screen and pen that both ASUS and MSI RTX Spark laptops featured only 16 inch touch screen and pen support. Shame none of it have 17.3 inch screen I plan to have first Nvidia ARM laptop to replace my wonderful ancient x86 Dell Inspiron 17 7737 laptop with 17.3 inch touchscreen and Geforce GT 750M GPU.
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I wonder if Windows 12 will be released around the same time? It'll have better support for ARM based systems.
Software compatibility is my only complaint with an ARM based MS Surface Laptop I use. Some applications run unusably slow when there's no ARM64 build.
Software compatibility is my only complaint with an ARM based MS Surface Laptop I use. Some applications run unusably slow when there's no ARM64 build.
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I dont think Microsoft will released Windows 12 this year but let wait and see what Microsoft will announce at Build 2026 keynote at 5pm today.
Maybe Windows 11 26H1 had better optimised and improved ARM support for Snapdragon X1, Snapdragon X2, Snapdragon C and Nvidia N1. I read many comments on reddits customers who bought new ASUS Zenbook A16 laptop with Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme and 48GB unified RAM reported it finally solved software compatibility issues, said it ran apps and games like dream, behaved like the same way as x86, ran much better and much faster than old 1st gen Snapdragon X1. it will be interesting to see how well it will run on low cost £300 laptops with new budget Snapdragon C CPU later in the year.
I am very impressed RTX Spark can run Alan Wake 2 on path tracing and 007 First Light fluidly at very high playable FPS that new Intel Arc B390 cannot run Alan Wake 2 on ray/path tracing and bare able to run 007 First Light slow at very low resolution 720p at less than 30 FPS.
Are you running Windows 11 26H1?
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It's running 25H2 currently.
It might as well be called Windows 11 27h2 or similar. I don't expect Windows 12 to be any different than that, it's all very iterative now.
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The DGX sparks don’t seem to have been selling too well, which is probably why Nvidia is trying them as a laptop chip, so possibly priced accordingly
The elephant in the room is Arm + Windows or Linux + Nvidia? Neither are particularly appealing TBH.
Unless you include memory and other components shortages and prices raising to that level on any good laptop, then suddenly it could look competitive for 3k+. No products exist in vacuum, there's always something to compare them to, but at the time they get released - too early to do it now.
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Depends on whether Nvidia put effort into the Linux driver - there's definitely a market and given how dire Windows has been with ARM, might be a smart move to diversify. They also have their own Linux distro so can't be too far off.
It would all depend on price at that point because if I want Arm plus Linux and vendor lock in I can always go to Apple with zero risk and beta testing.
At 200 watts maybe.