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Nvidia's RTX Spark laptops are a paradigm shift in laptop design, offering impressive performance and efficient design. But in 2026, that powerful combination means big money.
After speaking with a number of vendors at Computex 2026, Morgan Stanley is predicting the cheapest possible N1-based RTX Spark laptops might cost $1,800, and that's with a mere 16GB of unified memory, WCCFTech reports.
The RTX Spark laptops include Nvidia's new N1-based chip design. The more affordable versions will use the N1, with 12 Grace CPU cores, an RTX 5050-equivalent Blackwell GPU, and up to 64GB of unified memory. The N1X laptops will have 20 Grace CPU cores, and a Blackwell GPU with 6,144 CUDA cores, equivalent to an RTX 5070, and up to 128GB of LPDDR5X memory.
As well as the unique chip design, it's the massive amounts of memory Nvidia is looking to offer with this device—primarily targeting professional CAD and AI workloads—that will have a dramatic effect on pricing. According to Morgan Stanley, that will result in even the cheapest N1 models costing over $1,800.
The harder pill to swallow might be the even higher costs of the N1X models, though. There, Morgan Stanley estimates that laptops will cost at least $2,900.
Even if these laptops offer competitive performance and efficiency, high prices could be a stumbling block. For that, you could get a high-end MacBook Pro or a powerful gaming laptop with RTX 5080-like performance. Outside of AI development scenarios, 128GB of memory is overkill for even most professional users.
Nvidia will also need to compete with upcoming hardware. Although its partners are set to launch RTX Spark laptops in June, mass production won't begin until later in the year. That's when we'll also see new chip designs from Intel (Nova Lake) and AMD (Zen 6), while Qualcomm's Snapdragon X2 Elite and Elite Extreme chips will offer a compelling Arm alternative, too.
We'll need to wait for the real performance and efficiency numbers of these RTX Spark laptops to really know how well they compare with the competition. Indeed, the emulation question still needs to be answered. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang might have said that these laptops can run anything anyone has ever made for Windows, but that hasn't been the experience with Windows on Arm. Has Nvidia worked some magic with Microsoft?