Nvidia: RTX Spark Doubles Laptop GPU Power Efficiency

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Nvidia disclosed power efficiency benchmarks and gaming support plans for RTX Spark, which combines its own CPU and GPU, at the RTX Spark Press Event held at the JW Marriott Hotel in Seoul on Nov. 6, presented by Jeff Yen, Nvidia's Asia-Pacific (APAC) director of technical marketing. According to Nvidia's benchmark data, RTX Spark delivered approximately twice the performance of a laptop equipped with an Intel Core Ultra 9 CPU and Nvidia RTX 5070 discrete GPU at 60 watts; the comparison was based on performance across 20 major games and prompt processing in large language models (LLMs). When running on battery power, RTX Spark maintained approximately 98% of its plugged-in performance. Gaming figures disclosed include 142 FPS in Doom: The Dark Ages, 137 FPS in 007 First Light and 135 FPS in Cyberpunk 2077. RTX Spark uses an Arm-based CPU architecture, so x86 games cannot run directly; Microsoft's Prism emulator for Windows on Arm exists, but emulation can cause performance degradation or compatibility issues. Nvidia is collaborating with major developers to expand the number of games running natively rather than via emulation; partners include EA, Activision, Riot Games and Krafton, with supported titles including Apex Legends, the Call of Duty series and PUBG: Battlegrounds. Riot Games plans to support League of Legends and Valorant on RTX Spark using its own anti-cheat solution. Nvidia has also incorporated DLSS 5, a second-generation transformer-based graphics enhancement technology, into RTX Spark, using neural rendering to reproduce lighting, materials and textures in games.

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Source: The Elec · 11/8/2026 · View original source