{"id":263804,"date":"2026-06-04T06:45:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T10:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/04\/nvidias-rtx-spark-laptops-are-gunning-for-the-macbook-pro-yawn\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T06:55:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T10:55:09","slug":"nvidias-rtx-spark-laptops-are-gunning-for-the-macbook-pro-yawn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/04\/nvidias-rtx-spark-laptops-are-gunning-for-the-macbook-pro-yawn\/","title":{"rendered":"Nvidia’s RTX Spark laptops are gunning for the MacBook Pro. Yawn"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nvidia’s RTX Spark laptops are gunning for the MacBook Pro. Yawn<\/a><\/p>\n

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Publish Date: 2026-06-04 06:45:00<\/a><\/p>\n

Source Domain: www.macworld.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Nvidia just announced its new consumer laptop\/desktop chip at Computex\u2014RTX Spark\u2014along with a host of partnerships from hardware manufacturers and Microsoft. It\u2019s all anyone can talk about right now, and one of the most often-repeated lines is that Nvidia just put the MacBook Pro on notice. This is it\u2026 this is the superchip that will make Windows laptops put the nail in the MacBook Pro\u2019s coffin.<\/p>\n

I find the RTX Spark chip extremely interesting, and it\u2019s definitely aiming at a market segment that overlaps the MacBook Pro, but I\u2019m not sure it\u2019s time for Apple to start sweating. High-performance Windows PCs exist today, and a somewhat better spin on them isn\u2019t going to spell the end for Apple.<\/p>\n

What is RTX Spark?<\/h2>\n

In brief, RTX Spark is a new chip made for high-performance thin and light laptops or small-form-factor desktops. It\u2019s up to 20 ARM cores made by MediaTek (10 Cortex-X925 and 10 Cortex-A725) and an Nvidia Blackwell GPU with up to 6,144 cores, joined together with an NVLink chip-to-chip interconnect.. It can be configured with up to 128GB of LPDDR5x unified memory. It\u2019s literally the DGX Spark AI workstation chip that Nvidia announced last spring and shipped in the fall, only optimized for laptops and consumer PCs.<\/p>\n

In other words, it\u2019s similar to an M5 Max, only with more GPU power. <\/p>\n

\t\t\tRTX Spark is DGX Spark from last year, but for Windows laptops.<\/p>\n

Nvidia<\/p>\n

It\u2019s targeting a power draw in the 45W to 80W range, and is being launched in partnership with Microsoft, which means all the RTX Spark laptops and desktops run Windows.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s the big deal? Well, it should deliver a lot of performance, especially for AI tasks, for laptops in this class. It\u2019s also an ARM CPU, not x86, and Windows on ARM has had its share of issues over the years. But this partnership with Microsoft is supposed to mean that the two companies have been working together to really smooth out those problems and provide…<\/p>\n

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