For years, all gamers across the world have been going through the same dilemma – whether to choose performance or portability to play their favourite games on the go. Laptops like Dell’s Alienware or MSI’s Titan are absolute performance-heavy beasts but you can’t really carry them around in your backpack all day (unless you’re a fitness freak who goes to the gym regularly). On the other hand, there are some ‘thin and light’ laptops but they won’t be offering you the same performance as a bulky gaming rig. But, what if I tell you that soon, you might not need to compromise on any front at all? Yes, that is very much a possibility. All thanks to the recently-unveiled Nvidia Spark Chipset.
At Computex 2026, I got a chance to experience Alan Wake 2 and Pragmata on laptops powered by the latest chip. And I really wasn’t prepared for what awaited me. Read on to know all about it.
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As soon as I walked into the demo room, I noticed two slim and light laptops on display. My first thought was that Nvidia will probably show off some AI-focused tasks on these devices. After all, almost every laptop these days is an AI laptop. But, a couple moments later, I saw Pragmata running on a device.
“Is that Pragmata?” I asked the presenter at the demo who smiled and invited me to try out the game for myself.
For the next 15 minutes, I was completely immersed in the world of Pragmata (which I have already completed at my home setup). From the reflections and lighting, everything looked spectacular. Right from Diana’s perfect hair strands to Hugh’s bodysuit, everything was just perfect.
I also didn’t notice any frame drops or stutters while playing. In fact, the game did not feel like it was running on a thin and light machine at all. When I asked the presenter what device this was running on, the response was, ‘a Surface laptop’. And that led to a gasp from all journalists and gaming content creators in the room.
Because a Surface laptop running this game locally is something nobody would have even imagined a couple of days back. And yes, the game was running off Steam so if you are a PC gamer with a Steam account, congratulations. You can just start gaming on these devices as soon as they come out.
I also tried Alan Wake 2 on the device and the experience was equally great.
Unveiled at Computex 2026, Nvidia’s RTX Spark is an AI-focused chip designed for creators, gamers, and developers. Despite its compact size, Nvidia claims the chip can deliver up to 1 petaflop of AI performance, a number that was previously associated with far larger and more power-hungry systems.
More importantly, it supports up to 128GB of unified memory, allowing laptops to run large AI models locally instead of relying entirely on the cloud.
For creators, this means that tasks like editing high-resolution video, generating AI images, rendering complex 3D scenes, or experimenting with local large language models will be possible on super portable machines that don’t make them feel like the weight of the world is on their shoulders.
Nvidia is also betting heavily on personal AI agents. In partnership with Microsoft, the company is looking forward to build a future where users interact with their PCs differently. Instead of opening multiple apps and manually completing tasks, users could simply ask their computers to find files, edit content, organise projects, or automate repetitive workflows.
Moreover, companies such as ASUS, MSI, Dell, HP, Lenovo, and Microsoft are already working on devices powered by the platform. Some were even showcased during Computex 2026. So, an Nvidia Spark laptop could soon find its way into laptops across multiple price segments.
Now of course, a single demo is not enough to fully judge a new platform. Real-world testing, thermal performance, battery life, pricing, and long gaming sessions will ultimately determine whether RTX Spark lives up to the hype.
But if my brief experience at Computex 2026 is anything to go by, Nvidia may have just solved one of gaming’s oldest problems.
For years, gamers have had to choose between a laptop that was powerful or a laptop that was portable. After playing two graphically demanding games on a machine that looked more like an office laptop than a gaming rig, I am starting to believe that choice may soon disappear.
And well, seeing a Surface laptop run Pragmata at smooth frame rates was probably the last thing I expected to witness at Computex this year. Yet here we are. If RTX Spark delivers on its promise, the future of PC gaming could be a lot lighter than we imagined.
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