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16 October 2026

Microsoft's Surface Laptop Ultra tested with Nvidia's RTX Spark chip

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  • Microsoft's new Surface Laptop Ultra, a premium Windows laptop built around Nvidia's RTX Spark chip, is praised for its design but costs a lot.
  • The chip's main advantage is running AI models locally, which ordinary Windows users may not need, though it also handles games better than earlier Arm-based laptops.
  • In benchmarks it trailed Apple's MacBook Pro with the M5 Max chip on some tests and led on others, such as a video transcoding task.

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