Nvidia's RTX Spark laptops: early hands-on findings from a week of testing

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Nvidia's RTX Spark N1X processor, an Arm-based system-on-chip, has launched and is now available in Windows laptops from six manufacturers. The Verge's reviewers have tested four of these machines so far. The chip is designed to compete with offerings from Apple, Intel, AMD, and Qualcomm, featuring many cores, Nvidia RTX Blackwell graphics, and substantial unified memory for running local AI models. Microsoft's Surface Laptop Ultra, equipped with 128GB of unified memory, is the flagship device and has been fully reviewed by The Verge. Other testers have been evaluating a 64GB version of Asus's model.

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