I got my greasy mitts on a host of RTX Spark laptops running, what else, games at Gamescom 2026—and there's a couple I really want to take home

At Nvidia's booth during Gamescom 2026, the reporter had the opportunity to try out various laptops equipped with Nvidia's RTX Spark SOC. These machines all shared the same core hardware, featuring 20 Grace CPU cores and 6144 RTX Blackwell GPU cores, delivering gaming performance akin to an RTX 5070. While the exact frame rates and settings could not be determined due to the use of frame generation, games like 007 First Light, Arc Raiders, Borderlands 4, and F1 25 ran smoothly.

Asus ProArt P14 and Dell XPS 16 Creator Edition stood out, both feeling like premium gaming machines despite their business-like appearance. The Microsoft Surface Laptop Ultra, however, felt outdated compared to its competitors. Pricing for these laptops was not disclosed, but the availability of higher RAM options for the Asus and Dell models suggests that they could be affordable gaming laptops in the near future.