Nvidia unveil their first all-in-one laptop processor, with support for DLSS, ray tracing, frame gen, and all those other RTX features you love and hate

After years of whispers around Nvidia maybe, possibly, perhaps getting into CPU-making, they’re making it official with RTX Spark: a fully integrated laptop SoC (System on a Chip), coming to thin 'n' lights in Autumn this year.

Unsurprisingly, given the source of Nvidia’s trillions, RTX Spark has a big focus on agentic AI work, the official descriptions of which are so inducive of malaise that I can’t even bring myself to copy them in from the press release. But there is plenty of note for those who’d use their lightweight laptop to play games, as the SoC’s graphics processor is based on the same Blackwell architecture as Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 50 series of standalone graphics cards. That means it’ll support DLSS 4.5 upscaling, Multi-Frame Generation, ray tracing, Reflex, and G-Sync, all hitherto unseen (or at least extremely rare) on what is essentially integrated graphics. Unless you count the Nintendo Switch 2. And round 'ere, we don’t.

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