NVIDIA Opens RTX Spark Laptop Preorders for Oct. 16, Desktops Follow in November
Summary
NVIDIA opens preorders for RTX Spark Windows laptops, shipping Oct. 16, with compact desktops due in November. NVIDIA says the chip pairs a Blackwell GPU with a Grace CPU, up to 128GB unified memory and one petaflop of FP4 compute. Microsoft also makes Microsoft Execution Containers generally available for agents on Windows.
Key Points
- NVIDIA says DGX Station for Windows runs the GB300 Grace Blackwell Ultra Desktop Superchip with 748GB of coherent memory and up to 20 petaFLOPS of FP4 compute.
- Microsoft's Pavan Davuluri says Surface Laptop Ultra is built around RTX Spark, and systems come from Acer, ASUS, Dell, HP, Lenovo, MSI and Gigabyte.
- NVIDIA says the vast majority of Fortune 500 companies standardize on Windows, and Linux AI toolchains stay available on DGX Station through WSL.