Nvidia Ships First Laptop SoC With Full RTX 50-Series Graphics

*Nvidia’s RTX Spark integrates a Blackwell GPU into a single chip for thin laptops due this autumn.*

Nvidia has announced RTX Spark, its first system-on-chip for laptops. The part combines CPU, GPU, and other functions on one die and will reach thin-and-light machines starting in autumn.

The GPU block uses the same Blackwell architecture found in the GeForce RTX 50-series cards. As a result the SoC supports DLSS 4.5 upscaling, Multi-Frame Generation, hardware ray tracing, Reflex low-latency mode, and G-Sync.

Nvidia states the design targets “agentic AI” workloads in addition to games. No further technical details on the CPU cores or memory configuration have been released.

The move places Nvidia in direct competition with AMD and Intel in the integrated-laptop market. Until now the company supplied discrete GPUs or mobile chips that still required a separate CPU.

Why it matters

Laptop buyers who want current RTX features without a thick chassis or dedicated graphics module now have a single-vendor option. Whether the power and thermals of the combined chip deliver sustained performance in real thin-and-light designs remains to be seen once the first models ship.

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Sources:

• Rock Paper Shotgun

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