Nvidia is no longer content just powering your graphics card. This fall, the company will ship the RTX Spark, its first complete computing chip designed for laptops and mini-PCs, putting it in direct competition with Intel, AMD, Apple, and Qualcomm in the consumer PC silicon market.
The company calls it “the most efficient PC chip ever built.” The catch: Nvidia hasn’t shared a single benchmark, statistic, or chart to support that claim.
What we actually know about RTX Spark
The RTX Spark represents Nvidia’s first foray into building a full system-on-chip for consumer PCs, not just a discrete GPU that slots into someone else’s machine. The chip is designed to compete with the best thin-and-light Windows laptops on the market, combining CPU and GPU capabilities into one package.
Mark Aevermann, Nvidia’s senior director of product management, made the efficiency claim during the announcement. He offered zero data to back it up.
