A week with Nvidia RTX Spark laptops reveals performance strengths and practical compromises
The Verge’s three reviewers spent a week testing five Nvidia RTX Spark laptops, finding capable graphics and generally workable Windows on Arm apps alongside high prices, weaker CPU performance than Apple rivals, and demanding local AI workloads. Sean Hollister’s Asus ProArt P16 lasted roughly 5 hours to 5 hours and 40 minutes during everyday work. Their local AI experiments encountered substantial battery drain, heat, slow responses, and uneven results, despite configurations offering up to 128GB of unified memory.
Why it matters: The hands-on comparisons show how large unified memory and capable graphics translate into everyday tradeoffs in local AI workloads, battery life, and software compatibility.
