Why you can’t just build your own RTX Spark PC

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The Asus ProArt P16 RTX Spark has 128GB of memory. So does my desktop, basically. My desktop also has a GeForce RTX 5090 , the fastest consumer graphics card Nvidia has ever made, and one that’s an absolute monster for AI tasks. So why did the laptop finish my massive local AI workload almost 20 minutes faster? Because my desktop has all that memory in the wrong damned places. I’ve been putting the staggeringly expensive $7,000 Asus ProArt P16 laptop through some unusual tests for my AI-focused RTX Spark review , including running a sprawling real-world research workload through OpenAI’s…
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Why you can’t just build your own RTX Spark PC
The Asus ProArt P16 RTX Spark has 128GB of memory. So does my desktop, basically. My desktop also has a GeForce RTX 5090 , the fastest consumer graphics card Nvidia has ever made, and one that’s an absolute monster for AI tasks. So why did the laptop finish my massive local...




