Nvidia RTX Spark Laptops Go On Sale From $2,399

Nvidia’s RTX Spark laptops are now shipping from partner PC makers, moving the superchip the company unveiled earlier this year out of workstation towers and into slim, battery powered Windows laptops. The hardware pairs a Blackwell RTX GPU with a Grace CPU on one module, and Nvidia says that combination gives a laptop up to 1 petaflop of AI compute and up to 128GB of unified memory, enough to hold a larger local model or a longer context window than most laptop GPUs manage on their own. Asus, Dell, HP, Lenovo, Microsoft and MSI are the launch partners, with pricing starting at $2,399 and Nvidia noting that more systems are on the way.

Nvidia used the retail arrival as an occasion for coordinated launch events rather than a quiet product page update. Gatherings took place in Berlin, Beijing, Istanbul, Seoul, San Francisco and Taipei, each built around hands-on demos of gaming, content creation and local AI workflows running on the new hardware. In Berlin, timed to the city’s Festival of Lights, CEO Jensen Huang appeared at a gaming venue inside Saturn at Alexanderplatz, handed out popcorn and gave away several personally signed units to the crowd.

The company frames unified memory and local compute as the point of the design: a developer or creator who wants to run a model, edit video or train a small workload no longer has to decide between a desktop tower and a cloud subscription to get that much memory on hand. Nvidia also points buyers toward a set of tested recipes and playbooks built specifically for running local AI on the hardware, which suggests the company expects software support, not just the chip, to decide whether the category catches on.

The numbers

Entry pricing starts at $2,399 for the least expensive configuration shown so far. The top configuration carries up to 128GB of unified memory, shared between the GPU and CPU rather than split into separate pools the way a conventional laptop allocates graphics and system memory. Nvidia rates the combined module at up to 1 petaflop of AI compute, the figure it is using to position RTX Spark against both older RTX laptop GPUs and dedicated AI accelerators.

For a reader deciding whether to buy local hardware or keep renting, the honest comparison is against a month of cloud GPU time rather than against another laptop, and that is the sum the $2,399 starting price has to beat before the unified memory pays for itself.