Asus ProArt P16 RTX Spark review: powerful, but expensive

TechRadar’s Josh Russell reviewed the Asus ProArt P16 RTX Spark, a laptop built around Nvidia’s RTX Spark system-on-a-chip (SoC). Its chip combines 20 ARM CPU cores and a 6,144-core CUDA GPU with 64GB of RAM.

The review praises the 16-inch OLED display, which reaches 1,100 nits of peak brightness and has a 100% DCI-P3 color gamut. It also notes the laptop’s performance across AI, creative work and gaming. In testing, a basic data-analysis workflow using the Qwen 3 8B open-source local model took about 12 minutes. More involved automation required multiple sessions, including many 75-minute runs for 3DMark benchmarks.

For creative work, the laptop handled a nearly 2GB Photoshop file at 4K and 300dpi. The review says it ran Cyberpunk 2077 at 60fps with Raytracing set to Medium, and Gears of War: E-day at over 110fps. Battery testing recorded 11 hours of continuous video playback and more than 14 hours of productivity use.

Russell says dedicated gaming and creative laptops can outperform it in their respective areas. The ProArt P16 RTX Spark starts at $4,399.99, £3,899.99 or AU$7,999 for a configuration with 64GB of RAM. TechRadar says it launched on October 9 and is available now.