NVIDIA's RTX Spark pairs a Blackwell GPU with a 20-core Grace CPU for 1 petaflop of AI compute. Adobe is rebuilding Premiere and Photoshop for it, and Blackmagic Design, OTOY, and Blender are among 100-plus software partners backing the new platform.
NVIDIA unveiled RTX Spark at GTC Taipei on May 31, a superchip combining a Blackwell RTX GPU with 6144 CUDA cores and fifth-generation Tensor Cores with FP4 precision, connected via NVLink-C2C to a 20-core Grace CPU developed with MediaTek. If all that sounds fast it’s because it is. NVIDIA says the chip delivers 1 petaflop of AI compute with up to 128 GB of unified memory, and is targeting a new category of slim Windows laptops and compact desktop PCs, with availability from ASUS, Dell, HP, Lenovo, Microsoft Surface and MSI this fall.
Hardware will be as slim as 14 mm and as light as 1.36 kg (3 lb), available in 14- to 16-inch sizes with tandem OLED displays and G-SYNC.
For creative workflows, the headline capability is 12K 4:2:2 video editing via the Blackwell hardware decoder, alongside rendering of 90 GB+ 3D scenes using OptiX and DLSS. RTX Spark also supports 4K AI video generation and can run 120-billion-parameter large language models with up to 1 million tokens of context locally.
For Premiere, Adobe is building a new video pipeline that taps into RTX Spark's unified memory, Blackwell GPU and TensorRT, targeting real-time editing and color correction, GPU-accelerated AI and faster rendering of complex timelines. Photoshop gets a new GPU-accelerated compositing engine with live filters, high dynamic range support and updated brush handling.
Both programs will gain support for Windows agents. There are advances here too. NVIDIA and Microsoft have built a security layer for on-device AI, centered on new Windows security primitives and NVIDIA OpenShell, which lets users define what agents can and cannot access, routes queries to local models based on privacy settings, and masks personal information in cloud queries.
Firefly-powered Generative Fill in Photoshop and Generative Extend in Premiere will also benefit, while Substance 3D Painter and Stager will run natively on RTX Spark.
Updates to the apps are expected to roll out alongside RTX Spark hardware availability this fall.
Blackmagic Design is among the industry software partners backing the platform. “Portable, lightweight RTX Spark laptops with fantastic battery life are going to help our customers take the next leap in on-the-go production,” said CEO Grant Petty. OTOY is bringing Octane with Render Network support to RTX Spark. DLSS 4.5 Ray Reconstruction, featuring a second-generation transformer model, is coming to Blender 5.3 and a range of games, while RTX Video with 4x Frame Generation is coming to ComfyUI.
More than 100 software providers are backing the platform, including CapCut and llama.cpp.