Article Written By Christopher Moine, SFFN Senior Editor
No AI was used in the writing of this article…unless we’re actually just a simulation. In that case, am I the AI?
Nvidia has announced its first entry into the Microsoft Windows PC processor market that they have named the RTX Spark. The RTX Spark is an ARM architecture based APU that utilizes up to 20 ARM CPU cores, and 6,144 Nvidia Blackwell GPU cores. It features a unified memory architecture featuring up to 128GB of RAM. Initially being aimed at the AI creator market, Nvidia states that they have partnered with Adobe to re-architect Adobe Premier and Photoshop to take advantage of RTX Spark’s AI performance enhancements. This includes a new video pipeline in Adobe Premier that promises real-time color correction, new live filter features in Photoshop.
While Nvidia has been focusing almost entirely on AI performance for this announcement, Nvidia stated that the RTX Spark will play AAA games at 1440P and over 100FPS. Take this claim with a grain of salt though. The GPU portion of this processor is roughly on par with an RTX 5070, and Nvidia has a well known history of including frame-generation and DLSS in their performance claims. Game developers that Nvidia has claimed to have partnered with include KRAFTON, NetEase, Remedy Entertainment, Riot Games, and XBOX.
Companies announcing RTX Spark hardware include Asus, Dell, HP, Lenovo, and MSI. While most of these are laptops, Asus has announced a RTX Spark based mini-PC.
Nvidia stated that they have also been working closely with Microsoft to expand the Windows for ARM eco-system. Tools such as Blender, DaVinci REsolve, Topaz, Capcut, Bitwig, Cubase, and Affinity all currently have native ARM ports. Microsoft is claiming that Prism, the x86 emulator built-in to Windows for ARM, will be also be present and optimized for RTX Spark. As of last year, AVX and AVX2 instruction sets have been added to Prism.
Pricing has not been set as of the time of writing.
You can see the official Nvidia Press Release HERE.
Microsoft’s VP of Windows and Devices, Pavan Davuluri, has written a blog post about the subject HERE.
