… Sign in to your XDA account Nvidia and Microsoft recently unveiled the much-awaited N1X and N1 SoCs, now called RTX Spark . These Arm-based chips are meant to reinvent Windows PCs for the AI era, with Nvidia claiming that laptops powered by RTX Spark are purpose-built for agentic AI. …
… While Intel currently doesn't have a direct competitor to Nvidia's AI-first chips, AMD launched its Strix Halo chips back in early 2025 . Featuring the same unified memory architecture at the core of RTX Spark, Strix Halo machines were the first movers in the local AI workstation space. …
… The RTX Spark is roughly the same chip Nvidia already includes in its DGX Spark mini-PC aimed at AI developers, but it’s been optimized for Windows 11 laptops. …
… Related Local AI has a hardware accessibility problem, and the answer to it isn't RTX Spark Nvidia built the most powerful laptop chip to solve a problem no one has Does the average consumer want more AI on their PCs? …
… The confirmed details read like a creator checklist: an HDMI port, an SD card slot, and all-day battery life that Lenovo won't put a number on. The top configuration gets the full 20-core chip with 128GB of unified memory. …
… So, Nvidia isn't really building an AI chip, but more of a complete package. …
… Apple's A-series chips are massively overpowered for media playback, which means the interface remains instant and responsive no matter what you throw at it. …
… There's a caveat to that 300 GB/s number, by the way: the GB10 was also said to be a chip with 300 GB/s memory bandwidth at Hot Chips last year, though in actuality, it ended up being 273 GB/s. …
… It's a $3,800 AI workstation running Arm Linux with 6,144 CUDA cores the same count as an RTX 5070 and 128GB of unified memory. The machine was designed to serve language models, not render frames, so it kind of went against the entire idea behind that chip. …
… Related AMD's FSR 4.1 AI upscaling is finally coming to older Radeon RX GPUs GPUs with AMD's RDNA 3 architecture are getting FSR 4.1 this July, followed by RDNA 2 chips in 2027 Your perception matters As someone who's played competitively, this game feels better with Smooth Motion enabled That 77% … …