Nvidia announces the RTX Spark, an Arm-based consumer chip family it calls “the most efficient PC chip ever built”, made on TSMC 3 in partnership with MediaTek

Nvidia enters the consumer laptop realm. Nvidia enters the consumer laptop realm.

The Verge 2026-06-01 Sean Hollister

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@zacbowden Zac Bowden on x
NVIDIA says its RTX Spark Windows on Arm chips will run every Windows app ever made, squashing concerns that some x86 apps or games won't be compatible. It seems the company is confident that buyers won't need to be worried about some apps not being compatible.
@lukolejnik Lukasz Olejnik on x
Revolution in computing hardware? Nvidia announced RTX Spark, a chip combining a Blackwell GPU (6,144 CUDA cores, FP4 Tensor) with a 20-core Grace CPU, up to 128GB unified memory, claimed 1 petaflop of AI Claimed workloads include rendering 90GB 3D scenes, editing 12K 4:2:2
@nvidiageforce @nvidiageforce on x
It all starts with the @NVIDIARTXSpark Superchip. RTX Spark reinvents the personal computer for agents, creating and gaming. Learn more → https://www.nvidia.com/... [video]
@msitweets @msitweets on x
A new beginning for PCs starts now with MSI Prestige N16 Flip AI+ and EdgeMesa N AI+, powered by @NVIDIARTXSpark.
@tomwarren Tom Warren on x
Nvidia just officially announced its Windows on ARM chips. RTX Spark is “the most efficient PC chip ever built,” apparently. Nvidia has worked with Microsoft on RTX Spark laptops, with up to 128GB of unified memory for running large AI workloads locally https://www.theverge.com/.…
@tengyanai Teng Yan on x
Jensen: “the more you buy the more you make” “everyone wants to make money” “vera rubin is in full production” [image]
@idleprotocol @idleprotocol on x
NVIDIA just mass-produced our supply chain. RTX Spark - the world's most efficient PC chip ever built, puts 1 PFLOP of AI inference into consumer laptops shipping this fall. ASUS, Dell, HP, Lenovo, Microsoft Surface, MSI. Every major PC maker on earth. Every single one of
@mweinbach Max Weinbach on x
Here are the RTX Spark specs Full Blackwell GPU, up to 128GB of memory, 1 Petaflop of FP4 compute [image]
@varunkrish Varun Krishnan on x
Finally - Windows time at @nvidia @computex_taipei keynote ! [image]
@nvidiartxspark @nvidiartxspark on x
This is the NVIDIA RTX Spark Superchip. A new beginning for personal computers. Designed for creators, AI developers, and gamers, RTX Spark brings over 30 years of NVIDIA innovation to slim Windows laptops and small, ultra-efficient desktop PCs. [image]
@tengyanai Teng Yan on x
Jensen: “vera is a cpu for agents.” “vera delivers 1.8x the agent performance of x86” “this is going to be our new major growth driver” - single threaded performance the best (10 instructions per clock) - bandwidth per core - total bandwidth - energy efficiency [image]
@satyanadella Satya Nadella on x
Our goal is to deliver unmetered intelligence to every home and every desk with Windows. NVIDIA RTX Spark marks a real breakthrough toward that vision. Looking forward to sharing more with Jensen, who will be joining us live from Taiwan, at Build this week!
@zacbowden Zac Bowden on x
BIG NEWS: Microsoft is launching its first real MacBook Pro competitor in the Apple Silicon era with its new Surface Laptop Ultra, coming this fall. Microsoft is making a beefed-up Surface Laptop complete with NVIDIA's new N1X SoC, officially dubbed RTX Spark. It's the most [imag…
@asus @asus on x
A new beginning for PCs starts now with ASUS ProArt P16 & P14, powered by @NVIDIARTXSpark .
@benbajarin Ben Bajarin on x
Nice shoutout to the collaboration with @MediaTek who did the CPU design on RTX Spark. Obviously need to call out @Arm also since this is Arm based and adding to the growing landscape of Arm based notebooks and desktops.
r/hardware r on reddit
NVIDIA and Microsoft Reinvent Windows PCs for the Age of Personal AI: RTX Spark — a 1-Petaflop Superchip, the Full CUDA and RTX Ecosystem …
r/intelstock r on reddit
Nvidia to Enter Consumer PC Chip Market With RTX Spark
r/pcmasterrace r on reddit
NVIDIA just announced the RTX Spark CPU, developed with Microsoft, at Computex.
r/hardware r on reddit
Introducing NVIDIA RTX Spark
r/nvidia r on reddit
[Megathread] Introducing NVIDIA RTX Spark
@ben_a_adams @ben_a_adams on x
@kellabyte Maybe RTX vs NTX? Perhaps that's lower end model? [image]
@tomwarren Tom Warren on x
Surface Laptop Ultra. No full specs yet, but there's a full SD Card reader on the side, as well as HDMI, USB-C, USB-A, and a headphone jack [image]
@tomwarren Tom Warren on x
Microsoft just announced its own MacBook Pro. The Surface Laptop Ultra has Nvidia's new RTX Spark ARM chip, and it's “the most powerful” Surface ever. It's a spiritual successor to the Surface Book, complete with an SD Card reader and plenty of ports https://www.theverge.com/...
@pavandavuluri Pavan Davuluri on x
Introducing a powerful new chapter for @Windows PCs, accelerated by @nvidia RTX Spark https://blogs.windows.com/...
@kellabyte Kelly Sommers on x
In minutes I believe the Nvidia N1X ARM CPU is being presented as a “new era”. I'm a little confused why in comparison to some 2-3 year old CPUs. Maybe I'm missing something though? [image]
Abhay Dalvi Abhay Dalvi on linkedin
After a few years of heads-down work, I can finally talk about it. 🚀 — Introducing Surface Laptop Ultra — the most powerful Surface Laptop we've ever built. …
r/Surface r on reddit
Introducing Surface Laptop Ultra: Made for world makers
@tomwarren Tom Warren on x
there are also a range of RTX Spark mini PCs, although not from Microsoft Surface or HP... yet 🤔 [image]
@varunkrish Varun Krishnan on x
And wow! These are the @nvidia RTX Spark laptops which are coming later this year from Acer, Asus, Dell, Gigabyte, HP, Lenovo, MSI and of course @Microsoft [image]
@lynoure.eurosky.social @lynoure.eurosky.social on bluesky
What does that mean for Linux, if anything?
r/wallstreetbets r on reddit
Nvidia jumps into PCs with new Arm-based chip debuting in laptops from Microsoft, Dell, HP
@nvidiageforce @nvidiageforce on x
This is the @NVIDIARTXSpark Superchip. A new beginning for personal computers. Designed for creators, AI developers, and gamers, RTX Spark brings over 30 years of NVIDIA innovation to slim Windows laptops and small, ultra-efficient desktop PCs. [image]
@tomwarren Tom Warren on x
Nvidia's new RTX Spark laptops and PCs will include anti-cheat support for games like Fortnite, VALORANT, League of Legends, and PUBG. Nvidia is also working with Easy Anti-Cheat, BattlEye, Denuvo, and others. Good step forward for Windows on ARM gaming [image]
r/technology r on reddit
Nvidia unveils RTX Spark Superchip for laptops and desktop PCs at Computex 2026 - new platform promises to turn Windows into an agentic AI OS with Arm CPU, Blackwell GPU, and 128GB unified memory
Phoronix Michael Larabel on x
NVIDIA Announces RTX Spark Superchip For Laptops & Desktops
r/linux r on reddit
Will Linux run on the new Nvidia ARM chips?
@zacbowden Zac Bowden on x
I just realized the Surface Laptop Ultra doesn't have Surface Connect [image]
@surface @surface on x
Introducing Surface Laptop Ultra. Built for world makers. Designed for what's next. The most powerful Surface laptop ever. Coming Fall 2026. Sign up to learn more: https://www.microsoft.com/... [video]
@tomwarren Tom Warren on x
some more Surface Laptop Ultra shots. That port selection 👌 [image]
@pavandavuluri Pavan Davuluri on x
Proud to introduce you to @Surface Laptop Ultra, the most powerful Surface Laptop ever built. https://blogs.windows.com/... [video]
r/ItalyHardware r on reddit
L'articolo di Tom's per i nuovi chip nvidia
@iren_ltd @iren_ltd on x
IREN is working with @nvidia to build NVIDIA DSX-aligned AI infrastructure across its global data center portfolio. • Advancing the Sweetwater campus as part of IREN's AI infrastructure buildout • Adopting NVIDIA DSX OS technologies, including NVIDIA Infrastructure Controller
@shanaka86 Shanaka Anslem Perera on x
Today at Computex, Jensen Huang did not introduce products. He introduced an industry. Vera Rubin in production. RTX Spark for the PC. Cosmos 3 for the robots. N1X for the laptops. A platform cadence mapped through 2030. $150 billion a year flowing to Taiwan. Adobe optimizing [im…
@benitoz Ben Pouladian on x
NVIDIA RTX Spark gets called a PC chip. It's bigger. CUDA, RTX and agents in one superchip become the unifying layer for every powered smart device in your workflow. The PC stops being a tool and becomes a teammate. NVIDIA and Microsoft, co-designed over 3 yrs $NVDA $MSFT [video]
@realnickmugalli Nicholas Mugalli on x
Jensen Huang just compared the AI PC to the smartphone. To the single most disruptive consumer technology shift of the last twenty years. RTX Spark is the product that puts a deskside AI supercomputer in your home or office, running next-gen agent workloads locally, no cloud, no …
@enikofox.com Eniko Fox on bluesky
mmmmmm yeah i dont think i'm going to buy a chip+ram from the guys who made consumer ram unaffordable i feel like that's setting myself up for an abusive relationship www.theverge.com/tech/940589/ ...
@bdsams Brad Sams on x
This looks fantastic on paper...price and hopefully Windows is ready for the new chipset will decide if it's worthy of the Ultra name. 🤞 [image]
@ryanshrout Ryan Shrout on x
Spent some time with @Nvidia and @Microsoft on the new @Surface Laptop Ultra with RTX Spark. This is a hell of a machine for sure; going to be interesting to see how its performance scales and how the software story plays out. Early demos were impressive. [image]
@stocksavvyshay Shay Boloor on x
Jensen Huang says the AI PC reinvention is as big as the smartphone shift by calling it “a new line” and “a new beginning.” $NVDA and $MSFT unveiled RTX Spark which will be the world's most powerful deskside AI supercomputer built to run next-gen AI agent workloads locally. [vide…
@mweinbach Max Weinbach on x
I want to see more gaming with RTX Spark I can't wait for thin-and-light laptops with good battery, good build, and can actually play games well Best part of RTX Spark imo
r/technology r on reddit
Nvidia's new chip to power fresh line of Windows laptops by Dell, HP.
@gnukeith Keith on x
> Run frontier AI models with up to 1 trillion parameters locally What
@michaelarnaldi Michael Arnaldi on x
Running models will soon be a commodity. And open weights models are soon gonna have more moat than lab models.
@chrisschmitz C Schmitz on x
NVIDIA and Microsoft are trying to frontrun Apple WWDC Right now, Apple is the leading “Edge/Home” AI Platform with Apple Studio. Apple is rumored to release an up to 1TB RAM Version of Studio soon. Them front-running WWDC suggests that the rumors could be true.
@mweinbach Max Weinbach on x
The desktop is DGX Station with GB300! It does have 768GB of memory It also starts at ~$92,000
@emilprotalinski Emil Protalinski on bluesky
I'd buy a 17-inch version of this in a heartbeat. [embedded post]
@mweinbach Max Weinbach on x
I was talking to someone about it yesterday Apple silicon was so well architected from the start to just offer the best perf per watt and unified memory, chiplets, Arm, large cache, etc Then as AI made you push your hardware more, the benefits of these choices started to show
@marcelolima Marcelo P. Lima on x
Apple's silicon strategy was so ahead of its time. This is quite similar to my four year old M1 Ultra w/ 128 gb of unified memory. It has ~800 GB/s of memory bandwidth vs 300 for the RTX Spark, too! [image]
@kimmonismus @kimmonismus on x
[video] Holy, NVIDIA revealed RTX Spark and its nuts. Superchip. Blackwell-GPU (RTX-5070-Cores) 128GB, 1 PetaFLOP KI, 1440p/100FPSand so much for Laptops. Insane
@bdsams Brad Sams on x
The Surface Laptop Ultra - no mention of Copilot Plus branding in the PR 🤔 [image]
@caro_milanesi Carolina Milanesi on x
If the first 12 hours from the @NVIDIARTXSpark launch are anything to go by it is gonna be so much fun to have so many new PC market experts chiming into the conversation [image]
r/pcmasterrace r on reddit
Nvidia unveils RTX Spark Superchip for laptops and desktop PCs at Computex 2026 - new platform promises to turn Windows into an agentic AI OS with Arm CPU, Blackwell GPU, and 128GB unified memory
r/pcgaming r on reddit
NVIDIA and Microsoft Reinvent Windows PCs for the Age of Personal AI
Scott C. Lemon Scott C. Lemon on linkedin
This is a huge step and announcement. No, this is not the end of the cloud/frontier model vendors. Yes, this does mean that edge AI will eventually be coming to everyone. …
@benbajarin Ben Bajarin on x
The PC industry is great but NVIDIA's networking business (for example) will be 20x annually the dollars they get from PC chips. Agentic PCs are exciting but let's keep in mind this is a small amount of dollars for a company that will do ~$400b this year and ~$600B next year.
Spencer Gore Spencer Gore on linkedin
In the next year or two, I think most users will be able to buy laptops powerful enough that they never need to point a browser tab to Claude or ChatGPT. …
@timsweeneyepic Tim Sweeney on x
This is insanely cool! And nowadays Unreal Engine and Fortnite support Windows ARM devices 100%.
@stroughtonsmith … Steve Troughton-Smith on mastodon
We're 14 years in to Windows on ARM, but surely /this/ is the chip that will make it happen for real this time 🤪 — https://www.windowscentral.com/ ...
r/gadgets r on reddit
Microsoft and NVIDIA's Surface Laptop Ultra pushes Windows on Arm into high-performance territory
r/windowscentral r on reddit
Surface Laptop Ultra: Microsoft and NVIDIA reveal the 128GB RAM, mini-LED, RTX Spark powerhouse redefining Windows on Arm
r/Surface r on reddit
Surface Laptop Ultra: Microsoft and NVIDIA reveal the 128GB RAM, mini-LED, RTX Spark powerhouse
Emil Protalinski Emil Protalinski on linkedin
6 Nvidia announcements you should know about from Computex 2026: — 1. Nvidia debuted RTX Spark, an Arm-based consumer chip family it calls …

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