NVIDIA RTX Spark Arrives: Local AI Moves Into Consumer Laptops and Desktops

NVIDIA's RTX Spark hardware launched October 16, 2026, marking the company's most ambitious push yet to bring frontier-class AI processing to consumer devices—a shift that promises privacy-first inference and eliminates per-token costs for developers running local models. The new superchip combines a 20-core NVIDIA Grace CPU with a Blackwell RTX GPU featuring 6,144 CUDA cores and delivers up to 1 petaflop of AI compute capacity alongside 128GB of unified memory, all housed in laptops as thin as 14mm and weighing from 3 pounds. RTX Spark PCs launched October 16 at $2,599 and up through ASUS, Dell, HP, Lenovo, Microsoft Surface, and MSI, with a 128GB Dev Box desktop following in November.