Nvidia, Microsoft unveil AI-powered Windows PCs with RTX Spark chips, to compete with Intel, AMD and Qualcomm

Nvidia and Microsoft have unveiled a new category of Windows PCs powered by Nvidia’s RTX Spark chips, as the AI giant expands beyond data centres and into the personal computer market.

 The companies announced the new systems at the Computex event in Taipei, positioning them as PCs built for AI applications and AI agents that can run directly on devices. The machines will be manufactured by companies including Dell, HP, Lenovo, Asus, Acer and MSI, with more than 30 laptop models and over 10 desktop systems expected later this year.

“The PC is being reinvented,” Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang said. “For forty years, you launched apps. Click. Type. With RTX Spark and Microsoft Windows, you ask — and the PC does the work. RTX Spark brings everything NVIDIA has built — CUDA, RTX, our AI platform—into a single superchip. Local agents. Frontier models. Creative workflows. RTX games. All on a laptop. This is the new PC. The personal AI computer.”

RTX Spark combines CPU, GPU and AI processing capabilities into a single platform. Nvidia said the chip delivers up to one petaflop of AI performance and is designed to run AI models locally, enabling users to create content, develop software, play games and use AI assistants without relying entirely on cloud infrastructure.

Huang described RTX Spark as “the most efficient PC chip ever built,” adding that it brings together Nvidia’s AI and graphics technologies in a single system.

 The launch marks Nvidia’s most significant move yet into the Windows PC processor market, where it will compete with established players such as Intel, AMD and Qualcomm. The company has dominated the AI boom through its graphics processors used in data centres, but has had a limited presence in mainstream personal computing.

Microsoft is positioning the new systems as part of its broader push towards AI-powered computing. The companies said the PCs will support AI agents capable of understanding context, interacting with applications and carrying out tasks on behalf of users. “The world’s most powerful and efficient thin-and-light Windows PCs ever” are now possible with RTX Spark, said Pavan Davuluri, executive vice president of Windows and Devices at Microsoft.

Nvidia also introduced OpenShell, an open-source runtime designed to help developers build and deploy AI agents on Windows devices. The announcement reflects a broader shift in the technology industry from AI chatbots towards AI agents capable of completing complex tasks. By bringing AI processing directly onto PCs, Nvidia and Microsoft are betting that future computing experiences will increasingly rely on local AI capabilities rather than cloud-based services alone.

Full-stack RTX for creating and gaming

Nvidia is keeping true to its gaming genes and says that the RTX Spark would deliver the full AI and graphics technology stack to creators, AI developers and gamers. Users can render ultralarge 90GB 3D scenes with OptiX and DLSS, edit 12K 4:2:2 video with the NVIDIA Blackwell decoder, run 120-billion-parameter large language models with 1 million tokens context, and play AAA games at 1440p resolution and over 100 frames per second with ray tracing, DLSS and Reflex.

In addition to support for existing technologies, RTX Spark will power new RTX capabilities, including DLSS 4.5 Ray Reconstruction featuring a second-generation transformer model — coming to Blender 5.3 and dozens of games — and RTX Video with 4x Frame Generation, coming to ComfyUI.

Nvidia is alsonpartnering with Adobe to rearchitect Adobe Premiere and Photoshop for RTX Spark. Firefly-powered Generative Fill in Photoshop and Generative Extend in Premiere are among the hundreds of accelerated tools that deliver creative power, precision and control. “RTX Spark takes these capabilities further, delivering up to 2x faster AI, editing, coloring and effects across creative workflows,” the release stated.