Nvidia debuts RTX Spark processor for Windows laptops, compact desktops
Nvidia Corp. today introduced a system-on-chip designed to power Windows laptops and compact desktops.
The RTX Spark, as the processor is called, will roll out alongside Windows upgrades that will make the operating system better at running artificial intelligence agents. Separately, Nvidia will launch an AI-optimized desktop for technical professionals.
The RTX Spark is powered by a graphics processing unit based on Nvidia’s Blackwell architecture. It features 6,144 CUDA cores, which can perform a wide range of tasks, with an unspecified number of specialized Tensor Cores. The latter circuits are optimized for a narrower set of use cases such as running large language models.
Nvidia originally developed Blackwell for data centers. The most advanced server chip that uses the architecture, the Blackwell Ultra, features about four times as many CUDA cores as the RTX Spark. The former chip includes specialized circuits optimized to speed up workloads such as database queries and LLM attention calculations.
