NVIDIA RTX Spark laptops ship from $2,399 with 128GB unified memory
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RTX Spark pairs a Blackwell RTX GPU with a Grace CPU for up to 1 petaflop of FP4 AI compute and 128GB unified memory, in systems from ASUS, Dell, HP, Lenovo, Microsoft and MSI. Artificial Analysis clocked a local agent workload on Qwen3.8 27B at 18.7 minutes.
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