- Microsoft unveiled the Surface Laptop Ultra, one of the first laptops built around Nvidia’s new RTX Spark chip, shipping this fall.
- It pairs a 15-inch mini-LED display with up to 128GB of unified memory and a Blackwell RTX GPU (6,144 CUDA cores).
- No price has been announced; in the Philippines it will reach buyers through resellers at a premium, and later than the global launch.
Microsoft used Nvidia’s new laptop silicon to build a flagship. The Surface Laptop Ultra, announced this week, runs on the RTX Spark chip — a 20-core Grace CPU paired with a Blackwell RTX GPU — behind a 15-inch mini-LED PixelSense display, with up to 128GB of unified memory. According to Microsoft, it ships later this year.
At up to 128GB of unified memory, the machine carries more than most laptops offer. Nvidia’s pitch for RTX Spark, set out in its own announcement, is that the chip pushing past 100 fps at 1440p in games can also run a 120-billion-parameter AI model locally. That kind of on-device inference has required a desktop workstation until now; most laptops stop at 32–64GB. Microsoft isn’t alone in adopting the chip — Dell, HP, ASUS, Lenovo, and MSI are launching RTX Spark machines on the same fall timeline.
The display is a 15-inch mini-LED panel rated at 2,000 nits — the same screen technology the MacBook Pro uses for contrast and brightness, rather than a cheaper LCD.
| Spec | Surface Laptop Ultra |
|---|---|
| Display | 15-inch mini-LED PixelSense, 2,000 nits |
| Chip | Nvidia RTX Spark (20-core Grace CPU) |
| GPU | Blackwell RTX, 6,144 CUDA cores |
| Memory | Up to 128GB unified |
| Availability | Fall 2026 (global); Philippines TBA |
| Price | Not announced |
In the Philippines, Surface devices typically reach buyers through resellers like Digital Walker and Beyond The Box at a premium over US pricing, and RTX Spark is a first-generation platform. No price has been announced; the configurations most buyers would want are likely to land around Php 100k or above, in MacBook Pro territory. Local availability usually trails the global release, which points to late 2026 or early 2027 in the country.
