Nvidia kicked off Computex this week with its announcement of RTX Spark, a “superchip” built around the promise of improved on-device AI. Nvidia’s term, ‘superchip’, might be a bit of ambitious marketing, but the product is certainly more than just the company’s first CPU.
RTX Spark consists of a 6,144-core Blackwell RTX graphics card (similar to an RTX 5070 desktop GPU), a 20-core Grace 3nm ARM CPU that it co-designed with MediaTek, and 128GB of unified LPDDR5X memory. As for its on-device AI abilities, Nvidia is throwing around a 1-petaflop performance figure for FP4 AI workloads.
That tracks, on paper, for the specs listed, but doesn’t mean much on its own. Any competent chip needs something to go in — queue the announcements from nearly every major laptop manufacturer (minus Apple) of new RTS Spark-powered models inbound.
MSI Prestige N16 Flip AI+
MSI didn’t waste time in announcing the Prestige N16 Flip AI+, a laptop it says “represents a new
generation of premium thin-and-light PCs.” It’s the only 2-in-1 device announced so far, so it has that going for it, at least. This, as with most of them, is geared towards AI developers, creators, and even gamers.
The Prestige N16 Flip AI+ will apparently feature a 99.9Wh battery (the highest capacity allowed on most international flights), support for MSI’s Nano Pen stylus, and a 16in “UHD+ Tandem OLED display.” Not much else is known just yet, aside from the fact that the display will cover 100% of the DCI-P3 colour gamut, support a variable refresh rate, and reach a peak brightness of “over 1,000 nits”.
It may or may not become available in South Africa in future. But if it does, expect to pay a hefty sum. The display specs alone would seemingly warrant a price eclipsing R50,000.
Asus ProArt P16 and P14
Asus has announced that it will bring RTX Spark to its ProArt range. We’re pretty familiar with the ProArt range, though we’ve yet to get our hands on the 2026 model. Future models that will ship with RTX Spark seem like more of the same — a minimal, streamlined chassis with a durable construction, excellent OLED display, powerful innards, and features geared towards mobile creators.
Asus says both its RTX Spark ProArt laptops will feature ‘Lumina Pro’ OLED panels with “up to 4K resolution on the ProArt P16 and up to 3K on the ProArt P14.” 100% coverage of DCI-P3, a Pantone validation, an anti-reflection coating that is said to reduce reflections by as much as 65%, and a claimed 1,600 nits of HDR brightness round out display specs.
Another 99.9Wh battery will power the P16, while the P14 will make do with a 90Wh battery. We also expect a plethora of ports with this one, and a price to match. The last one we reviewed (a 2025 model) was asking R65,000 (it has since been marked down to R45,000). The RTX Spark models will undoubtedly be more.
Dell XPS 16 Creator Edition
Dell gave even less away than other companies regarding its new RTX Spark-powered XPS 16 Creator Edition. Other than the standard Spark specs, the company said the laptop will feature a Tandem OLED display with a True Black HDR 600 certification, a built-in SD card reader, and an HDMI port.
Microsoft Surface Laptop Ultra
Unsurprisingly, Microsoft’s Surface Laptop Ultra is “the most powerful Surface Laptop ever built,” according to the company. It has the brightest display Microsoft has ever shipped — a 15in mini-LED ‘PixelSense Ultra’ — and the largest touchpad ever on a Surface. It will feature ports (good) and come in two colours: Platinum and Nightfall (read: Silver and Black). Microsoft said this is for “world makers”, so we’re expecting a price only they can afford, whoever ‘they’ are.
And friends
HP confirmed that its OmniBook X 14 and OmniBook Ultra 16 will get the RTX Spark treatment. It didn’t go into further details, only to say that one or both of them will be the “world’s thinnest RTX Spark, built for powerful performance.”
We know even less about Lenovo’s offering. Early intel shows it will be called the Lenovo Yoga Pro 9n, although that could change down the line, and that’s it. We expect it will be fast, look nice, and cost a lot.
The first of the RTX Spark latops are expected to ship in US Autumn (our Spring), so around September, if everything stays on track and there are no setbacks. It will likely take them longer to reach South African shores.
