One week with RTX Spark laptops: How do gaming, local AI, and battery life perform?
Three authors from The Verge spent a week testing five laptops powered by Nvidia's RTX Spark N1X chip, including the 128GB Surface Laptop Ultra, Asus ProArt P16, Lenovo Yoga 9n, and HP OmniBook Ultra, priced from $3,199.99 to $6,999.99. For gaming, medium settings plus DLSS Performance mode held a steady 60fps in most games, but CPU-bound scenarios such as Helldivers 2 struggled to hit that mark; the authors place its graphics performance roughly between the RTX 5070 and RTX 5060 Laptop GPU. The local AI experience still feels like a developer testing phase: generating a news briefing with Qwen3.8-27B took 10 minutes and consumed 10% of the battery, while battery life for web-based office work came in at around 5 hours.
Three authors from The Verge spent a week testing five laptops powered by Nvidia's RTX Spark N1X chip, including the 128GB Surface Laptop Ultra, Asus ProArt P16, Lenovo Yoga 9n, and HP OmniBook Ultra, priced from $3,199.99 to $6,999.99. For gaming, medium settings plus DLSS Performance mode held a steady 60fps in most games, but CPU-bound scenarios such as Helldivers 2 struggled to hit that mark; the authors place its graphics performance roughly between the RTX 5070 and RTX 5060 Laptop GPU. The
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