Nvidia's RTX Spark Laptops Are Off to a Good Start, But Performance Is Mixed
Nvidia's RTX Spark laptops are now available, and early testing results are promising. Most reviews suggest strong GPU performance, decent software compatibility, and laptops that feel like premium, MacBook-style devices. But they are very expensive, and outside AI developers, most PC users won't need such powerful local AI machines.
Nvidia promised earlier this year that the new RTX Spark laptops would run everything well. That's largely proven accurate, with The Verge reporting that most apps do indeed run well. It certainly runs games with anti-cheat software like Fortnite, Rust, and Roblox, despite those proving problematic for SteamOS and other Windows-on-Arm systems.
The RTX Spark chip combines Nvidia's Blackwell GPU with a custom Grace CPU.Credit: Nvidia
CPU-limited games perform quite badly, though, because while the N1 and N1X chips offer strong multi-threaded performance, their single-threaded capabilities aren't great, according to HotHardware. Combined with the need to feed CPU instructions through...
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