# RTX Spark (N1X) laptops & compact desktops

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NVIDIA's Windows-on-Arm platform with native CUDA and up to 128 GB of unified memory at 300 GB/s; laptops ship from October 16, 2026, priced by each maker.

## Specifications

|  |  |
|---|---|
| Memory | 64–128 GB LPDDR5X |
| Memory bandwidth | 300 GB/s |
| Power | 80 W |
| Launch | 2026-10 |
| Architecture | Blackwell RTX GPU (up to 6,144 cores) + Grace Arm CPU (up to 20 cores) |
| Software | CUDA |

## What it can run (128 GB, 8K)

Estimates, not benchmarks. See the methodology.

| Model | Parameters | Best quant | Total | tok/s (est.) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Qwen3.5-122B-A10B | 122B | Q5_K_M | 85.5 GiB | 25 |
| Mistral Small 4 119B (2603) | 119B | Q5_K_M | 83.4 GiB | 39 |
| gpt-oss-120b | 117B | Q6_K | 95.0 GiB | 43 |
| Llama 4 Scout 17B-16E Instruct | 109B | Q6_K | 89.8 GiB | 13 |
| GLM-4.5-Air | 106B | Q6_K | 87.3 GiB | 18 |
| Qwen3-Coder-Next (80B-A3B) | 80B | Q8_0 | 83.8 GiB | 56 |
| Llama 3.3 70B Instruct | 70B | Q8_0 | 75.7 GiB | 2.4 |
| Qwen3.5-35B-A3B | 35B | FP16 | 69.1 GiB | 30 |
| Qwen3.6-35B-A3B | 35B | FP16 | 69.1 GiB | 30 |
| Qwen3-32B | 32.8B | FP16 | 66.6 GiB | 2.7 |
| DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B | 32.76B | FP16 | 66.6 GiB | 2.7 |
| Gemma 4 31B IT | 30.7B | FP16 | 61.6 GiB | 2.9 |
| Qwen3-30B-A3B (2507) | 30.5B | FP16 | 60.9 GiB | 27 |
| Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct | 30.5B | FP16 | 60.9 GiB | 27 |
| GLM-4.7-Flash (30B-A3B) | 30B | FP16 | 59.6 GiB | 30 |
| Qwen3.5-27B | 27B | FP16 | 53.8 GiB | 3.3 |
| Qwen3.6-27B | 27B | FP16 | 53.8 GiB | 3.3 |
| Qwen3.8-27B | 27B | FP16 | 53.8 GiB | 3.3 |
| Gemma 3 27B IT | 27B | FP16 | 54.3 GiB | 3.3 |
| Gemma 4 26B A4B IT | 25.2B | FP16 | 50.1 GiB | 24 |
| Mistral Small 3.2 24B Instruct (2506) | 24B | FP16 | 48.7 GiB | 3.8 |
| Magistral Small 1.2 (2509) | 24B | FP16 | 48.7 GiB | 3.8 |
| Devstral Small 2 24B Instruct (2512) | 24B | FP16 | 48.7 GiB | 3.8 |
| gpt-oss-20b | 21B | FP16 | 41.8 GiB | 25 |
| Phi-4 (14B) | 14B | FP16 | 29.4 GiB | 6.4 |
| Gemma 3 12B IT | 12B | FP16 | 24.8 GiB | 7.5 |
| Gemma 4 12B Unified IT | 11.95B | FP16 | 24.2 GiB | 7.5 |
| Qwen3.5-9B | 9B | FP16 | 18.4 GiB | 10 |
| Qwen3-8B | 8.2B | FP16 | 17.7 GiB | 11 |
| DeepSeek-R1-0528-Qwen3-8B | 8.19B | FP16 | 17.6 GiB | 11 |
| Llama 3.1 8B Instruct | 8B | FP16 | 17.1 GiB | 11 |
| Gemma 4 E4B IT | 8B | FP16 | 16.4 GiB | 11 |
| Llama 3.2 3B Instruct | 3.21B | FP16 | 7.7 GiB | 28 |
| Kimi K2.6 | 1000B | Doesn't fit | – | – |
| DeepSeek-R1-0528 (671B) | 671B | Doesn't fit | – | – |
| DeepSeek-V4-Flash | 284B | Doesn't fit | – | – |
| Qwen3.8-Flash-Next | 180B | Doesn't fit | – | – |

## Prices

No prices recorded for this device yet.

## Frequently asked questions

### Which LLMs can the RTX Spark (N1X) laptops & compact desktops run?

With 128 GB and an 8K context, the largest models that fit include: Qwen3.5-122B-A10B, Mistral Small 4 119B (2603), gpt-oss-120b, Llama 4 Scout 17B-16E Instruct, GLM-4.5-Air. See the full table below.

### How fast is the RTX Spark (N1X) laptops & compact desktops for local LLMs?

Generation speed is mostly set by memory bandwidth (300 GB/s). For Llama 3.1 8B Instruct at FP16, expect roughly 11 tokens/s; bigger models are slower.

### Can the RTX Spark (N1X) laptops & compact desktops run 70B models?

Yes. Llama 3.3 70B Instruct fits on the RTX Spark (N1X) laptops & compact desktops (128 GB) at Q8_0 with an 8K context, using about 75.7 GiB, at an estimated 2.4 tokens/s.

## Sources

- https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/products/rtx-spark/
- https://docs.nvidia.com/rtx-spark/rtx-spark-porting-guide/0.1.0/overview.html
- https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/local-ai-rtx-spark-laptops-software-updates/