Nvidia RTX Spark Laptops Go On Sale: 1 Petaflop of Local AI, Yet CPU Limits Persist

RTX Spark mini desktop designs from six partner brands

Nvidia’s RTX Spark laptops from ASUS, Dell, HP, Lenovo, Microsoft and MSI now ship from $2,399, bringing 1 petaflop of local AI compute and 128GB unified memory to thin Windows PCs. Our deep review weighs the unified-memory breakthrough against CPU-limited gaming, thermal throttling, Arm app gaps and a $2,399 floor that buys capability most buyers will not use.

Intel GPU D-Series: 480GB of Air-Cooled LPDDR5X Rewrites Inference Economics

Technician installing an accelerator card in a server

Intel’s GPU D-Series packs 480GB of LPDDR5X and 1.3 petaflops of FP8 into a 350W air-cooled PCIe card, betting that inference economics reward memory capacity over bandwidth. We decode the specs, the prefill-versus-decode trade-off and the software gap Intel still has to close.