PCWorld tests RTX Spark laptops, running 120B models locally
11/04/2026 — 11/04, 21:20·1 sources (all)·1 reports (all)
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- PCWorld spent a month testing laptops built on Nvidia's new RTX Spark platform, including Microsoft's Surface Laptop Ultra, HP's OmniBook Ul…
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On November 4, 2026, PCWorld published a hands-on article about a new wave of laptops built on Nvidia’s RTX Spark platform. Over the past month, PCWorld has been testing several RTX Spark-powered machines, including Microsoft’s Surface Laptop Ultra, HP’s OmniBook Ultra, and the $7,000 Asus ProArt P16 with 128GB of unified memory. The testing covered everyday performance, gaming, and local AI workloads, with the models running locally ranging from relatively small LLMs up to OpenAI’s 120-billion-parameter model. PCWorld also notes that Nvidia now makes laptop CPUs, a fact the outlet itself describes as still feeling unusual to report. As of publication, the article introduces the hardware lineup and the scope of the testing; it does not yet report detailed benchmark results or a final verdict on the platform.
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PCWorld spent the past month testing laptops built on Nvidia's new RTX Spark platform, including Microsoft's Surface Laptop Ultra, HP's OmniBook Ultra, and a $7,000 Asus ProArt P16 with 128GB of unified memory. The testing covered everyday performance, gaming, and local inference ranging from smaller LLMs up to OpenAI's 120-billion-parameter model.
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