By Jon Fingas
Publication Date: 2026-10-07 18:48:00
After months of teasing, Microsoft and Nvidia are finally ready to offer prices and release dates for the first RTX Spark PCs. Microsoft is starting by opening pre-orders for the Surface Laptop Ultra ahead of its October 16 launch.
The 15-inch portable workstation and gaming machine starts at $2,599 for a version with an 18-core Grace CPU, a 5,120-core Blackwell RTX GPU, and 24GB of unified RAM (32GB is an option). You’ll want to move to the 20-core model if you want the touted high memory ceiling, however. It starts with 32GB of RAM, but scales up to 128GB in its most powerful form.
At Microsoft’s Surface and Windows event, the company repeatedly drew comparisons to the MacBook Pro and claimed RTX Spark is…
