By shattered.io
Publication Date: 2026-10-16 01:59:00
NVIDIA’s RTX Spark went on sale worldwide on October 16, 2026, landing in Windows 11 laptops from six major OEMs and setting up the clearest head-to-head test yet between NVIDIA’s new Windows AI silicon and Apple’s M5 family. The launch caps a slow build that started on June 1, 2026, when NVIDIA unveiled the chip during its GTC Taipei keynote, held alongside Computex 2026 in Taiwan. Ten weeks of preorders, benchmark leaks, and OEM pricing drama later, the actual hardware is finally shipping, and the question hanging over the PC industry is simple: can a Windows chip finally match the unified-memory trick that has made Apple Silicon the default choice for local AI work since 2020?
RTX Spark pairs an NVIDIA Grace CPU with a Blackwell RTX GPU across a single pool of memory, the same basic architectural bet Apple made six years ago with the original M1. NVIDIA is framing this as a platform shift…
