NVIDIA RTX Spark to debut on October 7 with Blackwell GPU and up to 128 GB of unified memory on Windows
Remember the Microsoft event for October 7 where Jensen Huang plans to take the stage? Well now, through two publications on social networks accompanied by the Surface division, both companies have confirmed the definitive launch of the NVIDIA RTX Spark platform.
Although we have already seen some previews, such as the ASUS ProArt P14 and P16 at IFA 2026, the event will serve to finalize the arrival to the market of these first laptops with NVIDIA ARM processors. The technological alliance that we were able to witness live during the last Computex 2026 is therefore strengthened.
Initially presented by Jensen Huang in Taipei, this architecture combines a CPU developed together with MediaTek with up to 20 Grace architecture cores and a Blackwell RTX graphics accelerator equipped with 6,144 CUDA cores.
The most differential aspect of the design is found in the integration of up to 128 GB of unified memory LPDDR5 communicated via the NVLink C2C interface at 600 GB/s. The system reaches up to 1 petaflop of calculation for artificial intelligence, allowing language models with up to 120 billion parameters to be executed locally on portable computers with contained design.
During the fair we were also able to see the Surface Laptop Ultra, the first Microsoft device specifically designed to take advantage of this platform along with a 2,000-nit mini-LED touch panel. Various manufacturers such as ASUS, but also Lenovo, Dell, HP and Acer, then confirmed that they had chassis prepared for this platform. The October 7 appointment will clear the exact launch schedule of these devices, designed for developers and content creators seeking independence from cloud services.
All the doubts that we want to clear up on October 7
We are convinced that the arrival of RTX Spark is going to turn the computer market upside down. Now, there are many doubts that we hope to resolve on October 7. On the one hand, there is the position of Qualcomm, which is just beginning to make its way into the Windows environment with its Snapdragon X processors, but lacks comparable graphics muscle.
On the other hand, the performance per watt of RTX Spark directly challenges Apple’s M series, which to date dominated the field of professional laptops with a large capacity of shared graphics memory.
Obviously, the other big unknown will be the price range that these devices will have in stores. The combination of high-speed unified memory with cutting-edge chips makes us think that all devices that come out with this platform are going to be expensive, especially in the midst of this enormous component crisis that we are experiencing.
The live event will resolve, we hope, all the questions. For now, you can save the YouTube link where you can watch it live on October 7 at 7:00 p.m., peninsular time.
