Nvidia opens RTX Spark Windows preorders with Microsoft

Nvidia said on Oct. 7 that Jensen Huang and Satya Nadella outlined RTX Spark Windows PCs at a Microsoft event in San Francisco, with laptop preorders open the same day and availability from Oct. 16. Nvidia described RTX Spark as a Blackwell RTX GPU plus a Grace CPU with up to 128GB unified memory and 1 petaflop of FP4 AI compute, and previewed DGX Station for Windows on the GB300 Grace Blackwell Ultra Desktop Superchip. Microsoft also said Microsoft Execution Containers reached general availability. Tom's Hardware and Windows Central reported Surface Laptop Ultra preorders from $2,599, with Spark PCs from Asus, Dell, Lenovo, HP, and MSI also due Oct. 16.