ASUS announced on Oct. 7, 2026, that its ProArt P16 and P14 laptops built on Nvidia’s RTX Spark chip start at $2,599.99, with the first U.S. units arriving Oct. 16. The price is the starting figure at BestBuy.com and select U.S. Best Buy stores, and ASUS says pricing varies by product and region.
The two laptops, plus a small desktop called the ProArt GR1X, are the first ASUS machines on a chip that Nvidia introduced in early June as its entry into Windows PCs. ASUS rates the platform at up to 1 petaflop of AI performance.
Pricing, pre-orders and the Oct. 16 U.S. date
According to ASUS’s press release, global pre-orders for the P16 and P14 opened on Oct. 7, 2026, and first U.S. units arrive on Oct. 16. The 24GB, 32GB, 36GB and 48GB configurations are sold through the ASUS eShop, BestBuy.com and Best Buy stores. The 64GB and 128GB versions are sold mainly through the ASUS eShop and Best Buy, and the 128GB model is also sold at Micro Center.
ASUS did not publish per-model prices, only the $2,599.99 starting figure, and listed no availability outside the U.S. In Germany, Notebookcheck reports the P16 starts at 2,999 euros with 24GB of RAM and a 512GB SSD, rising to 4,299 euros with 64GB and a 1TB SSD, while the P14 is 3,299 euros with 32GB and 1TB. Deliveries there also start Oct. 16, and only a few configurations are offered at launch. The ProArt GR1X mini PC, which has 10GbE, Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth 5.4 and dual M.2 SSD slots, measures 150 x 150 x 51 mm and supports up to four 4K displays, arrives later this year, mainly in 64GB and 128GB configurations, through select premium retailers. ASUS gives no price for it.
ProArt P16 and P14 specifications
Per ASUS, the P16 is 12.9 mm thick, weighs 1.77 kg and carries a battery up to 99Wh, with a display up to 4K and Nvidia G-SYNC. The P14 is 13.9 mm thick, weighs 1.48 kg, has up to a 90Wh battery and a display up to 3K. Both come in Nano Black and Neo White.
The screens on both are ASUS Lumina Pro OLED panels with Delta E below 1 color accuracy, up to 1,600 nits peak brightness, a 120Hz variable refresh rate and an anti-reflection coating. Memory runs 24GB, 32GB, 36GB, 48GB, 64GB or 128GB. ASUS does not list storage capacities in the release.
Android Headlines, writing in September, noted that the P16’s refresh rate rose to 120Hz from the 60Hz of the 2025 model, and that ASUS first showed the laptop at Computex in June 2026. Android Headlines said ASUS had not yet confirmed an exact release date at that point and that the price had not been announced, so the Oct. 7 release is the first firm price.
The RTX Spark chip behind the petaflop claim
RTX Spark pairs a 20-core Nvidia Grace CPU with a Blackwell RTX GPU that has 6,144 CUDA cores and fifth-generation Tensor Cores with FP4 support, linked by NVLink-C2C, according to Engineering.com’s account of Nvidia’s announcement. It supports up to 128GB of unified memory and up to 1 petaflop of AI compute; the sources do not state the numeric precision of that figure.
MediaTek worked on the custom CPU design with Nvidia, and Microsoft is partnering with Nvidia on a Windows platform for on-device agents, including new Windows security primitives. At the Computex keynote, Jensen Huang said, as Channelnews quoted him: “Microsoft and Nvidia are going to reinvent the PC.” Channelnews reported the chip is Arm-based, built on TSMC’s 3nm process, and that Nvidia says it can run AI models up to 120 billion parameters locally.
Software support is part of the pitch. Engineering.com reported that Adobe is rearchitecting Premiere and Photoshop for RTX Spark and that more than 100 Windows software providers, including Blackmagic Design, Blender and ComfyUI, are embracing the platform; OpenClaw and Hermes Agent are adopting a security layer called NVIDIA OpenShell for their new Windows apps. Hardware partners named at the launch include ASUS, Dell, HP, Lenovo, Microsoft Surface and MSI, with the initial rollout set at six premium models, expanding to about 30 laptops and 10 mini PCs.
The ASUS release includes statements from two software chiefs. Dillon Rolnick, CEO of Nous Research, whose Hermes agent is among the software ASUS cites, framed the pitch as intelligence that buyers own rather than rent. Yoland Yan, CEO and co-founder of Comfy, said creators want to run the best AI models on their own machines with full control.
This article was produced with the assistance of AI and reviewed by Morning Overview editors prior to publication.
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