NVIDIA's RTX Spark Is Good For Windows, Even If You Don't Need Local AI

Windows PCs may finally catch up to Apple Silicon.

Devindra Hardawar for Engadget

Last week, I spent two days hearing how Microsoft and NVIDIA are "reinventing the PC" with RTX Spark, the new system-on-a-chip powering the Surface Laptop Ultra and several other Windows PCs this fall. It's the first time we've seen powerful Arm CPUs joined together with NVIDIA's Blackwell GPU technology and up to 128GB of ultra-fast unified memory on a single chip. Theoretically, RTX Spark should allow for…