Nvidia finally announced the RTX Spark at Computex 2026, an SoC powering a ‘new generation’ of PCs purpose-built for Agentic AI, and basically every mainstream laptop manufacturer will be launching a laptop powered by it.
Just like the DGX Spark, which made its debut at CES 2025, the RTX Spark is an SoC that’s built for agentic AI. The chip will sport a 20-core ARM CPU, a Blackwell GPU with 6,144 CUDA cores and up to 128GB of VRAM that’s shared between the two. Nvidia claims that this chip will boast up to 1 petaflop of AI compute power, and will be able to play games at 1440p with up to 100 fps.
Nvidia is hoping that the RTX Spark, along with Windows, will bring about a new type of computing. Microsoft has been hinting at this type of thing in a while, but at Nvidia’s press conference in Taipei, CEO Jensen Huang spelled it out himself, saying “For forty years, you launched apps. Click. Type. With RTX Spark and Microsoft Windows, you ask — and the PC does the work.” I’m not sure I’m ready for an era of shouting at my computer to try and make it do things, but it’s not like I don’t already do that anyways.
It’s also important to keep in mind that while the GPU in the DGX Spark looks impressive on paper, it will be stapled to an ARM processor. While it’s likely that Nvidia will be able to work out the compatibility quirks with its nearly unlimited resources, ARM processors haven’t traditionally been great for PC gaming. Even with the launch of Copilot+ laptops back in 2024, there were a ton of games that I couldn’t even get to run on Qualcomm’s chips, because they were built for an x86 platform. Only time will tell if Nvidia is able to work around that problem, but even if it does, I wouldn’t exactly go out and get a RTX Spark-powered system as a gaming laptop.
Instead, these systems are going to lean more into creative and AI workloads, and will likely have price tags to match. Neither Nvidia or any of the manufacturers that will be making laptops and mini PCs with the RTX Spark have announced prices, but its safe to assume that they’ll be quite expensive – especially if they come with that full 128GB of memory. According to The Verge, Nvidia claims that there will be less expensive versions coming at some point with just 16GB of RAM, but it’s not clear how long that wait will be.
Either way, laptops powered by RTX Spark should be making their way to store shelves in Fall 2026, so if you do want to buy into Nvidia’s vision of an Agentic future, you won’t have to wait too long.
Jackie Thomas is the Hardware and Buying Guides Editor at IGN and the PC components queen. You can follow her @Jackiecobra
