Microsoft Launches RTX Spark PCs Starting at $2,599, Bringing 120-Billion-Parameter AI Models to Consumer Hardware

Microsoft has opened pre-orders for Nvidia RTX Spark-powered PCs, with the Surface Laptop Ultra starting at $2,599 and the Surface RTX Spark Dev Box at $5,999, marking a major shift toward local AI inference for developers and creative professionals. The machines feature up to 128GB of unified LPDDR5X memory and can run AI models with up to 120 billion parameters entirely on-device, delivering up to 1 petaflop of AI compute without reliance on cloud services.