NVIDIA's RTX Spark Laptops Go on Sale, Pairing Blackwell Graphics With DLSS 5
NVIDIA's RTX Spark laptops are now on sale from six OEM partners worldwide, pairing a Blackwell RTX GPU and Grace CPU with DLSS 5 starting at $2,599.
NVIDIA's RTX Spark laptops went on sale worldwide on October 16, starting at $2,599, in what the company is calling the first real shake-up of the Windows laptop since it brought RTX graphics to notebooks. Six launch partners, ASUS, Dell, HP, Lenovo, Microsoft and MSI, are shipping machines built around a single new superchip rather than a separate CPU and GPU, and NVIDIA says every one of them is ready to game, create and run AI software locally the moment it's unboxed.
A Superchip, Not a Graphics Card
RTX Spark isn't a GeForce RTX 50 Series card slotted into a laptop chassis. It's a single piece of silicon that fuses a Blackwell RTX GPU with up to 6,144 CUDA cores and fifth-generation Tensor Cores to a 20-core NVIDIA Grace CPU, built in collaboration with MediaTek, joined by NVLink-C2C chip-to-chip interconnect. Laptop configurations carry up to 128GB of unified LPDDR5X memory and up to 1 petaflop of FP4 AI performance, according to NVIDIA's RTX Spark product page. The platform also carries over NVIDIA's full RTX stack day one, including DLSS, Reflex 2, G-SYNC, ray tracing and the Remix modding toolkit.
Six Laptops, One Starting Price
NVIDIA's launch-day announcement names the ASUS ProArt P14 and P16, the Dell XPS 16, the HP OmniBook Ultra and OmniBook X 14, the Lenovo Yoga Pro 9n, the Microsoft Surface Laptop Ultra and the MSI Prestige N16 Flip AI+ and Prestige N16 as the first wave, sold through OEM websites and major retailers starting at $2,599. Pricing and exact configurations vary by region and retailer, and NVIDIA is running a limited-time promotion for new Perplexity subscribers alongside the launch. Acer and Gigabyte are confirmed to follow with their own RTX Spark systems later this year.
DLSS 5 Ships on Day One
Every RTX Spark laptop launches with DLSS 5 built in, covering 3D-Guided Neural Rendering, Multi Frame Generation, Super Resolution and Ray Reconstruction. NVIDIA paired the hardware launch with a faster version of the Neural Rendering model this week: it's roughly twice as fast as the September build, its footprint has shrunk 24% to about 118 million parameters, and GPU overhead is cut in half with comparable image quality. NBA 2K27 is the first game to ship with the faster model, and 2K says the frame-rate gain runs up to 1.4x. According to the GeForce news post, hundreds of games are playable at launch, from Cyberpunk 2077, Fortnite and Gears of War: E-Day to Hogwarts Legacy, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Remastered and World of Warcraft. Competitive shooters including Counter-Strike 2, ARC Raiders, Marvel Rivals, Rocket League and THE FINALS are confirmed with working anti-cheat on day one, though Riot Games says League of Legends and VALORANT support is still planned rather than live, and EA's Javelin anti-cheat for titles like Battlefield isn't expected until early 2027.
“RTX Spark brings the power of NVIDIA AI, RTX graphics and CUDA together with Microsoft Windows in one PC for creating, gaming and running personal AI agents.”Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA
Built for Local AI Agents
NVIDIA is pitching RTX Spark as much on AI as on frame rates. The chip is rated to run 120-billion-parameter language models locally, and launch software includes GitHub Copilot, the Hermes agent from Nous Research, OpenClaw, Perplexity, Pi and WorkBuddy, alongside NVIDIA's own Nemotron 3.5 Bolt model tuned for tool-calling and multistep tasks. Nous Research CEO Dillon Rolnick says the point of bringing Hermes to RTX Spark is letting people run open AI models and agents locally, with more control over their data than a cloud service allows. Adobe is treating the platform as a creative workstation too: Photoshop and Premiere both get native beta support at launch, with Substance 3D to follow, and Adobe's Deepa Subramaniam frames it as pairing NVIDIA's compute with Adobe's own apps to give creative professionals more power without leaving a laptop.
What to Watch Next
NVIDIA has a rollout schedule stacked through the rest of the year. DLSS 5 with Neural Rendering arrives for Hogwarts Legacy on November 5, Marvel Rivals gets RTX Spark-specific optimizations with its Season 11 update on November 13, and Where Winds Meet picks up DLSS 5 in late November. Further out, PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS support is slated for the first half of 2027 and Call of Duty support is pencilled in for 2027. For a platform built around doing creative, gaming and AI work on one laptop, how quickly that remaining software catches up will matter as much as the superchip itself.
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