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Microsoft laptop with Nvidia RTX Spark leaked and benchmarked before launch

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What just happened? Laptop OEMs are set to begin launching notebooks equipped with Nvidia's RTX Spark processors later this year, with Microsoft's new flagship Surface leading the pack. In a stroke of unbelievable luck, though, a prototype unit recently landed in the hands of a tech enthusiast with the know-how to put it through extensive early benchmarks.

TechPowerUp Forum user "Fouquin" claims to have found a prototype Microsoft Surface Laptop Ultra lying on the side of the road near Microsoft's Redmond, Washington headquarters in mid-June. After several weeks of testing, he detailed its performance, power efficiency, and build quality in an early hands-on report.

The unit he found features the full-fat RTX SparkN1X APU, with 6,144 CUDA cores and a 20-core Arm CPU, paired with an entry-level memory configuration of 24GB...

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