Computex 2026: Microsoft has announced the Surface Laptop Ultra, its high-end laptop built around NVIDIA’s newly announced RTX Spark chip. It is the first Surface laptop to feature an NVIDIA Blackwell RTX GPU with full CUDA support and Microsoft is positioning it squarely at developers, AI builders and creative professionals who have outgrown what conventional laptops can handle and it launches later this year.
The RTX Spark chip at its heart combines a Blackwell RTX GPU with a 20-core Grace CPU, connected through NVIDIA’s NVLink chip-to-chip interface and supports up to 128 GB of unified memory. That memory pool is dynamically shared between the CPU and GPU depending on workload, which means large AI models, heavy 3D renders and multi-model workflows can all run simultaneously without hitting memory walls. At the top end, the chip delivers 1 petaflop of AI compute and can run models with up to 120 billion parameters locally. For context, that puts locally-run AI at a scale most people have only been able to access via cloud services. You can read more about RTX Spark here.
The Surface Laptop Ultra features a 15-inch mini-LED PixelSense Ultra touchscreen with a 3:2 aspect ratio and up to 2,000 nits of peak HDR brightness. Microsoft claims it is the brightest display it has ever shipped on a Surface. The display is designed with colour-critical work in mind and is calibrated for professionals making exposure and grading decisions.
The chassis is under 18 mm thick and weighs under 2 kg, which is notable given the hardware inside. The touchpad is more than 30% bigger than the previous generation with haptic feedback. I/O Ports include: HDMI, USB-C, USB-A, a full-size SD card reader and a headphone jack, so there is no need for a dongle in most workflows. The laptop will be available in two colours: Platinum and a new Nightfall finish. Microsoft has also built in a user-replaceable SSD, which it frames as a longevity and IT management feature.
The Surface Laptop Ultra is optimised for RTX Spark and runs on Windows 11, with Microsoft making specific OS-level changes to take advantage of the unified memory architecture, including raising the memory ceiling available to the GPU. Adobe has rearchitected Premiere Pro and Photoshop for RTX Spark with a new video pipeline in Premiere targeting real-time editing and GPU-accelerated colour correction, and a next-generation engine in Photoshop for GPU-accelerated compositing and live filters. Blender, DaVinci Resolve, Cinema 4D, CapCut, Topaz Photo and Affinity by Canva all run natively on the platform. For software still dependent on x86, Microsoft’s Prism emulator now supports RTX Spark’s GPU.
On the gaming side, League of Legends, Valorant, PUBG, Alan Wake 2 and others have confirmed support. Since RTX Spark is a Windows on Arm platform, game compatibility will depend on a mix of native Arm builds, Prism emulation and anti-cheat support.
The Surface Laptop Ultra will be available later in 2026 and pricing is yet to be announced.
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