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title: "NVIDIA ships RTX Spark Windows laptops starting at $2,399"
description: "From the The Forward Pass daily issue, October 18, 2026."
canonical: https://theforwardpass.net/archive/daily/2026-10-18/nvidia-ships-rtx-spark-windows-laptops-starting-at-2-399
updated: 2026-10-18
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# NVIDIA ships RTX Spark Windows laptops starting at $2,399

From The Forward Pass daily issue, October 18, 2026 (https://theforwardpass.net/archive/daily/2026-10-18). Source: https://theforwardpass.net/archive/daily/2026-10-18/nvidia-ships-rtx-spark-windows-laptops-starting-at-2-399

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**Top News** · Official · nvidia.com

RTX Spark is a new generation of Windows laptops built around a superchip that combines a Blackwell RTX GPU with a Grace CPU. NVIDIA says laptops are available now starting at $2,399, giving developers and AI enthusiasts a Windows option for running local AI.

Here's what you get:
- ASUS, Dell, HP, Lenovo, Microsoft and MSI have models available now, with additional systems on the way.
- The superchip offers up to 1 petaflop of AI compute.
- Unified memory reaches up to 128GB.
- NVIDIA provides tested recipes, playbooks and resources to help you run local AI on RTX Spark.

Why care? RTX Spark puts NVIDIA's Blackwell RTX GPU and Grace CPU in Windows laptops you can buy now, starting at $2,399.

Sources: [blogs.nvidia.com](https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/local-ai-rtx-spark-windows-laptops-celebration/)