Hands On With NVIDIA’s First RTX Spark Laptops & PCs Ft. ASUS, Dell, HP, Microsoft, MSI, Lenovo

At Computex, we had a hands-on time with several NVIDIA RTX Spark systems, including Laptops & Mini PC, giving us a first taste of NVIDIA's first true client SoC for Windows.

NVIDIA RTX Spark Chip Sees Major Adoption From Big OEMs, Including Microsoft - Here's Our Hands-On With The Full Range of Laptops & Mini PCs

Earlier this week, NVIDIA finally announced its RTX Spark chip for Windows PCs. The chip is designed to challenge the current hierarchy within the Windows ecosystem with what NVIDIA promises to be a really disruptive platform for AI, Gaming, & Professional workloads.

The NVIDIA RTX Spark chip is a SoC (System-on-Chip), featuring a 20-Core Arm CPU based on NVIDIA's Grace architecture, a Blackwell GPU with all the RTX goodies that packs 1 PFLOPs of AI performance, and 128 GB of Unified LPDDR5X memory. During our visit to NVIDIA's Computex suite, we were able to get a hands-on time with the first RTX Spark systems, mainly laptops and Mini PCs. With that said, let's start & talk about each of the systems we saw.

NVIDIA RTX Spark Laptops

Dell

Dell is making the XPS 16 Creator Edition, which is powered by the NVIDIA RTX Spark. This laptop is a 16-inch design with a sleek and slim body. The laptop features a space gray color with the XPS logo in the center. It comes with three USB Type-C ports, an HDMI port, and a MicroSD card reader. Dell will be using a Tandem OLED display with a TrueBlack HDR 600 certification, and has exhaust vents on the sides and the backside.

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ASUS

ASUS is giving its ProArt series the RTX Spark treatment. They have three new products to showcase that include two laptops and a Mini PC.

Starting wih the ASUS ProArt P16 "H7607", we have a 16" laptop with the ASUS Lumina Pro OLED display in a 16-inch configuration. This screen runs at a 4K resolution at 120Hz & with up to 1600 nits brightness. There are two options to select from: Neo White and Nano Black, and both feature a 12.9mm ultra-thin design and weigh 1.77kgs.

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There's also the ProArt P14 "H7407" which features the same display but in a 14-inch design. The 14-inch measures 13.9mm thin, and weighs under 1.5kgs (1.48kgs). Both laptops come packed with ASUS creative suite which is a set of apps for Local AI agent and seamless AI workflows. The screen is also coated with AR to avoid fingerprints.

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ASUS also showcased the PCB of the ProArt laptops with a decent amoiunt of IO such as dual USB4 ports, HDMI, USB Type-A, and a headphone jack. There are two M.2 SSD slots and the RTX Spark SoC is featured in the middle. The chip is surrounded by eight LPDDR5X chips for a total of 128 GB unifed memory, and the VRM design is a 12-phase layout. The RTX Spark chip for the display model was produced in the 42nd month of 2025, and is the A1 stepping. The DRAM modules are from Micron. For cooling, ASUS uses a dual-fan solution with lots of copper heatpipes.

HP

The HP "RTX Spark" laptops come in two variants, the 16-inch Omnibook Ultra 16 and the 14-inch OmniBook X 14.

HP calls the OmniBook Ultra 16 the thinnest RTX Spark AI PC, measuring just 15.73 millimeters. It adopts a premium and modern design that comes with a latticeless keyboard plus a haptic touchpad. The OmniBook Ultra 16 carries a quad speaker design, a Tower-Hinge+ trunk design, a 3K OLED with DisplayHDR TrueBlack 1000, and comes with a 140W GaN Type-C charging adapter that's easy to carry around. For cooling, the laptop packs two blower fans, which are slimmed out, along with two large heatpipes that make direct contact with the chip itself. HP also moves the cooling to the rear for better heat dissipation.

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Moving over to the HP OmniBook X 14, this is a 14-inch design with the same characteristics as the 16-inch model, such as a 3K OLED display and a 140W GaN charging adapter. Some of its own features include a 13.53mm Ultra-thin chassis, a 5MP IR camera, and a 3K OLED panel with 1100 nits of HDR brightness.

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Lenovo

Lenovo announced its Yoga Pro 9n laptop, which features a 15-inch display. The screen is OLED, and Lenovo pairs the laptop with front-facing speakers, a large trackpad, and solid I/O. There are a total of four USB ports, including 2 Type-C and 2 Type-A, an HDMI port, a microphone jack, a power button, a MicroSD card reader, and a camera shutter switch. On the back, you can see an area for the exhaust vents and the two fans underneath it.

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MSI

The MSI Prestige N16 Flip AI+ is a 16-inch design which features a 360-degree flip design, and adopts a full aluminum chassis with a premium anodized finish. It has rounded edges and offers a perfect combo of portable and high-end aesthetics. The ports include two USB Type-A, a MicroSD card reader, two USB Type-C, an HDMI port, and a combo headphone jack. The MSI RTX Spark comes with a massive 99.9Whr battery.

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There's also some big cooling features such as an intra-flow vapor chamber which uses a large baseplate and heatpipes, all with vapor-chamber tech, & two fans that operate below 18 dBA for normal workloads, and under 29dBA at full load.

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Microsoft

The Microsoft Surface Laptop Ultra is obviously the first of the platforms announced, and it is also the first one we got to see at Computex powered by NVIDIA RTX Spark. The laptop is sleek, slim, and carries some amazing features. There's 128 GB of onboard memory, more ports than the competition, and offers a nice OLED display.

NVIDIA RTX Spark Mini PCs

ASUS

Next up is the ASUS ProArt Mini PC which features a 140W Elite Thermal cooling design. The Mini PC also packs 128 GB of memory, and features lots of connectivity such as 10GbE LAN, USB3, PCIe Gen5 & comes inside a compact 150x150x51mm chassis. There's going to be a black and white colored version of the PC.

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Dell

The Dell XPS RTX Spark Mini PC uses the same chip as their laptop, but tuned to run at higher power levels thanks to additional cooling. The system features four USB Type-C ports, an HDMI port, a power button, and a LAN port on the front. The backside features an additional two USB Type-C ports and a MicroSD card reader. The Dell PC is larger than traditional DGX Spark systems and features vents on the sides of the chassis.

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HP

HP is also making a Desktop Mini PC featuring the RTX Spark. It comes with large exhaust vents on the front and the back. The system weighs quite a bit. I/O options include four USB Type-C ports, an HDMI port, and an Ethernet LAN port. The front also has the power button. Additional exhaust vents are added to the bottom of the chassis.

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MSI

MSI is also making its own RTX Spark Mini PC called the EdgeMesa N AI. This Mini PC is the smallest of the bunch we saw, and features a silver-colored aluminum chassis with vents on the front, back, and the bottom. The port configuration is the same as the rest with four USB Type-C, HDMI, and a 10GbE LAN.

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NVIDIA RTX Spark Demos & Initital Impressions

We were also shown a range of demos, and had a small hands-on time with gaming on the RTX Spark. The demos were mostly showcasing the AI capabilities and content creation prowess of the RTX Spark, which it really did handle well. GenAI was fast, and content creation in Solidworks, Blender, and Unreal Engine was also superb.

In terms of gaming performance, while there were only a handful of games being showed such as Alan Wake II, Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, Pragmata, & Fortnite, we weren't allowed to view the settings these games were running at. We were told that the titles were running with Frame-Gen enabled along with Raytracing features. The performance was smooth but we should expect that since these were running with upscaling and frame-gen.

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RTX Spark, being based on the Blackwell IP, means that it will support all innovations such as DLSS 4.5 Ray Reconstruction, Multi-Frame Gen, and much more. NVIDIA is also working with various partners, including the XBOX Team and Krafton, to bring next-gen experiences to RTX Spark.

Statistics such as FPS, Power, Temperatures, and Battery Life are missing from these demos, so we will just have to wait and see till we get one for testing in the coming months. As for other big changes, NVIDIA is working closely with Microsoft to improve the scheduler within Windows 11 26H1 to further improve the WoA "Windows on Arm" ecosystem. These updates will be landing ahead of the launch of RTX Spark. The first NVIDIA RTX Spark platforms arrive this fall so stay tuned for more information.

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