A laptop with RTX Spark is found on the road and its consumption and performance are analyzed before its launch

Although the platform RTX Spark from NVIDIA It does not have a release date yet, during the past COMPUTEX We were able to see some of the laptops from different brands that will be launched using this new NVIDIA silicon. But so far there are no official performance data, beyond those provided by NVIDIA itself, although this seems to have changed. A user claims to have found a Microsoft Laptop with RTX Spark and has carried out tests with updated drivers.

The first performance tests of a laptop with NVIDIA RTX Spark appear

The user claims to have found this laptop lying in the gutter, which he picked up as trash, and was surprised to find that it was one of these prototype laptops seen in the past COMPUTEX. After verifying that he had a very old version of the NVIDIA drivers, he decided to update it to the version 616.00 published for developers, and which has compatibility with CUDA. In addition, this laptop has the most powerful version of the platform, making use of a 20 core CPU and one GPU with 6,144 CUDA cores.

Consumption and performance of the prototype with Arm CPU and Blackwell GPU

The tests carried out by the user have revealed details such as the consumption it has RTX Spark at rest and in performance. When at rest, the laptop has a consumption of between 7 and 8Wwhile in mode Balanced go up to 12W. If we change to mode Performanceat rest it reaches the 23W of consumption.

Tests carried out on the CPU have given 123 points on a single core and 1,386 in multicore using Cinebench 2024. Using a more modern version, Cinebench 2026single-core results rise to 540 points and in multicore up to 5,771. For these tests, a mode limited to 80W at PL1.

The GPU maintains the same performance connected to power or on battery

One of the most surprising aspects, and one that we were able to verify directly in the past COMPUTEXis that the GPU has equal performance whether it is connected to power or using battery power. An option offered by its most direct competitor with the new Apple M5where is this platform RTX Spark has fallen below the performance of the M5 Pro and some laptops with x86.

NVIDIA still has room to optimize RTX Spark before its launch

But it is still too early to predict the final performance that this promising platform will have. NVIDIA has a lot of work ahead to optimize and offer adequate drivers that are able to get all the performance out of its GPU together with its CPU armwhich should achieve performance similar to that of a RTX 5070 which has the same number of CUDA cores as this more powerful version of the RTX Spark.