Microsoft's first RTX Spark machine starts at $2,599
Microsoft's Surface Laptop Ultra, teased in May 2026, will be the company's first offering built around Nvidia's new RTX Spark system-on-a-chip. According to Ars Technica, the laptop starts at $2,599 and comes in configurations with either a 5,120-core or 6,144-core Blackwell GPU.
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The memory model is what makes a machine like this interesting for AI work: leaning on unified memory allocation rather than a traditional GPU's physical VRAM limits lets the same pool be assigned to handle modern gaming tasks or local AI development and deployment.
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That's the theory, and the performance case offered at the event was a demonstration — Microsoft highlighted graphical performance to show just how capable the laptop can be.