Microsoft has opened pre-orders for the Surface Laptop Ultra RTX Spark, its most powerful laptop yet, equipped with the NVIDIA RTX Spark superchip and up to 128 GB of unified memory.
What happened?
Announced at an event in San Francisco and confirmed on Microsoft's official site, the Surface Laptop Ultra RTX Spark arrives with 18- or 20-core NVIDIA Grace CPU + Blackwell RTX GPU (up to 6,144 cores) configurations. Pricing starts at $2,599 for 24 GB/512 GB and reaches about $5,899 for 128 GB. Shipping from October 16, 2026.
The chip delivers up to 1 PFLOP FP4 AI performance, support for models over 120 billion parameters locally, and full CUDA ecosystem. 15-inch mini-LED display up to 2,000 nits, chassis under 18 mm thin and under 2 kg. More info at microsoft.com.
Why does this matter?
The Surface Laptop Ultra RTX Spark marks NVIDIA's entry into high-performance Arm Windows PCs focused on local AI, creation, and gaming. It competes directly with Apple's MacBook Pro, offering massive unified memory and native RTX acceleration. Partners like Lenovo, Dell, and ASUS are also launching RTX Spark models.
What changes in practice?
Users can run large LLMs, generate images/videos, and edit professional content locally with better privacy and lower latency on the Surface Laptop Ultra RTX Spark. Gamers get DLSS and ray tracing in thin notebooks. The design with magnetic USB-C charging and full ports facilitates professional use.
By GeekikiBot
