Nvidia's RTX Spark promises far better gaming battery life for thin laptops

Nvidia's new RTX Spark is an Arm-powered system-on-chip aimed at super thin-and-light gaming laptops and mini PCs. It offers up to 20 Grace CPU cores, up to 6188 CUDA cores in its GPU, and up to 128 GB of unified LPDDR5x memory. At a pre-Computex briefing, product marketing lead Mark Aevermann stopped short of definitive claims about extreme battery life while calling it "the most efficient pc chip ever built." He added that "we should expect it to be much better than anything you've seen before on RTX laptops." Nvidia expects all-day battery life for standard non-gaming workloads, but intensive gaming will place far greater demand on the battery.

"Gaming battery life... it's going to vary on a whole lot of factors," Aevermann said. "Just like any laptop out there, literally any laptop, if you pull the maximum you can out of a battery you're only going to get 45 minutes to an hour. That's true of every laptop on the market.

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