Windows on Arm

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1. Oct 24
   DLSS 5 Neural Rendering Rolls Out to Two RTX Remix Titles

   Wccftech reports that NVIDIA has added DLSS 5 with 3D-Guided Neural Rendering to Portal with RTX and the Half-Life 2 RTX demo through RTX Remix. Both titles also support up to 6X Multi Frame Generation on compatible GeForce RTX 50 Series GPUs, while the updates include Frame Generation Preset C, additional rendering improvements and native Windows on ARM support. DLSS 5 Neural Rendering itself remains limited to GeForce RTX 50 Series GPUs and RTX Spark hardware.

   Wccftech · 🔥 0
2. Oct 16
   ASUS ProArt P16 review: first NVIDIA RTX Spark laptop arrives

   The ASUS ProArt P16 is among the first laptops to ship with NVIDIA's RTX Spark platform, built around the N1X SoC — a 20-core Arm CPU plus a 6,144-CUDA-core Blackwell GPU, both on TSMC 3nm — supporting up to 128GB of LPDDR5X unified memory, roughly 300 GB/s of bandwidth and 1,000 TOPS of NVFP4 AI compute. Wccftech's early benchmarks show class-leading memory bandwidth but multi-core and single-core 3DMark CPU Profile scores behind x86 rivals such as the Core Ultra X9 388H and Ryzen AI MAX+ 395. NVIDIA claims the laptop can sustain full performance on battery, pricing has not been announced, and further benchmarks are still pending.

   Wccftech · 🔥 0
3. Oct 16
   Surface Laptop Ultra review: RTX Spark brings AI power, Windows 11 lags

   Tom’s Hardware’s review of the Microsoft Surface Laptop Ultra finds the Nvidia RTX Spark N1X machine (20 CPU cores, 6,144 CUDA cores, 32GB unified memory) is among the first Windows on Arm laptops without a Qualcomm chip, and one of the best-built Surfaces yet. It praises the 15-inch mini-LED display, three USB4 Type-C ports and the new Magnetic Connect charger, but notes the 4.41-pound body and the $3,699.99 as-configured price. In benchmarks it scored 3,151 single-core and 20,203 multi-core on Geekbench 6, trailing both the M5 Max MacBook Pro and a Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme laptop, while edging the MacBook Pro by one second in a Handbrake 4K-to-1080p transcode and running smaller local models such as Gemma 4 12B and Qwen 3.6 35B Q2. The reviewer stresses that Windows 11 still ships no system-level AI features for the chip—Nvidia OpenShell, the new Copilot and taskbar natural-language search are not ready—so apart from local model tinkering, the experience feels largely unchanged.

   Tom’s Hardware · 🔥 0
4. Oct 12
   Qualcomm Snapdragon X PC chips said to rise about 10% on advanced-node costs

   Qualcomm's Snapdragon X and Snapdragon X2 PC processors are said to have risen about 10% in price from October 1, 2026, with reports citing rising advanced wafer fabrication and packaging costs. The reports, traced to Taiwan's Economic Daily News and relayed by Wccftech, do not disclose before-and-after prices for individual models, so not every chip's street price necessarily moved by the same amount. Qualcomm relies on its in-house Oryon CPU cores plus integrated GPU and NPU for its PC push and is moving to TSMC's more advanced N2P node, but higher manufacturing costs could erode its price and efficiency pitch against x86 rivals, forcing laptop makers to rebalance retail prices, configurations and margins.

   cnBeta · 🔥 0

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