NVIDIA RTX Spark laptops go on sale worldwide from $2,599
NVIDIA said on 16 October 2026 that RTX Spark laptops were available globally that day from ASUS, Dell, HP, Lenovo, Microsoft and MSI, starting at $2,599. Each machine runs a single superchip that pairs an Arm-based NVIDIA Grace CPU with a Blackwell RTX GPU, with up to 128GB of unified memory and up to 1 petaflop of FP4 AI compute. NVIDIA lined up local-AI models, agents, creative apps and hundreds of games for day one.
The details
- NVIDIA's newsroom release of 16 October 2026 states that RTX Spark laptops are available globally that day from ASUS, Dell, HP, Lenovo, Microsoft and MSI, sold through the makers' own websites and major retailers, starting at $2,599, with pricing and configurations varying by region.
- The launch line-up names nine machines: the ASUS ProArt P14 and ProArt 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.
- RTX Spark is described by NVIDIA as "a single superchip combining an NVIDIA Blackwell RTX GPU and an NVIDIA Grace CPU", and NVIDIA's RTX Spark product page lists the top laptop configuration as a 20-core Grace CPU with a 6,144-core Blackwell RTX GPU, up to 128GB of LPDDR5X unified memory and up to 1 petaflop of FP4 AI performance; the release adds that "MediaTek collaborated with NVIDIA on the custom CPU design".
- NVIDIA's 7 October 2026 post says the Grace CPU and Blackwell GPU are connected at 600 GB/s, that RTX Spark laptop pre-orders opened that day for a 16 October ship date, and that compact RTX Spark desktops follow in November; it lists Acer and Gigabyte as building RTX Spark systems in addition to the six laptop makers.
- For local AI, NVIDIA shipped Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B, a 74-billion-parameter model released on 15 October 2026 (the 74B-A9B 24GB variant is a mixture-of-experts model with 9 billion active parameters, purpose-built for running local agents on RTX Spark), with Nemotron 3.5 Bolt E4B 4GB following on 23 October; guided setup covers the GitHub Copilot, Hermes, OpenClaw, Perplexity, Pi and WorkBuddy agents, and NVIDIA PAIR left beta with llama.cpp support alongside NVIDIA Broadcast 2.3.
- Windows-on-Arm developer tooling landed with the platform: NVIDIA cites the first PyTorch-CUDA build for Windows on Arm, Python 3.15 as the first native-by-default Windows on Arm Python build, the first native Conda installer for Windows on Arm with more than 2,000 packages, and 97% of the top 15,000 Python wheels ready.
- NVIDIA says hundreds of games are playable on day one, naming Cyberpunk 2077, Fortnite, World of Warcraft, Marvel Rivals, Gears of War: E-Day and NBA 2K27; DLSS 5 arrives on launch day with NBA 2K27 on 16 October, Hogwarts Legacy adds DLSS 5 3D-Guided Neural Rendering on 5 November 2026, and RTX Remix with DLSS 5 support follows on 23 October.
- On creative work, NVIDIA says RTX Spark machines can edit 8K 4:2:2 video and render 3D scenes of up to 90GB on battery, and that up to 2x performance is "coming soon" to Adobe's top apps, with Photoshop and Premiere offering native RTX Spark support through beta releases at launch and DLSS Ray Reconstruction coming to Blender 5.3 in November 2026.
- NVIDIA's own entry-price figures differ between posts: the 16 October newsroom release says systems start at $2,599, while a follow-up NVIDIA blog on 17 October 2026 says "Starting at $2,399, laptops from ASUS, Dell, HP, Lenovo, Microsoft and MSI bring powerful local AI"; real configurations sit higher, with Thurrott putting its Lenovo Pro 9n review unit (18-core CPU, 5,120-core Blackwell GPU, 32GB LPDDR5X-9400, 1TB PCIe Gen 4 SSD) at $2,999 and calling it "about as inexpensive as an RTX Spark computer gets".
- NVIDIA marked the 16 October on-sale date with six retail launch events: XPERION at Saturn Alexanderplatz in Berlin, where Jensen Huang made a surprise appearance and gave away five signed RTX Spark laptops, plus the JD MALL Shuangjing Store in Beijing, Vatan Bilgisayar Topkapi in Istanbul, the COEX East Lobby in Seoul, a Best Buy in San Francisco and Muse Garden in Taipei.