ASUS's NVIDIA RTX Spark Laptops Could Give The MacBook Pro Some Competition

Engadget's Steve Dent reports that ASUS's new ProArt P16 and P14 laptops, powered by NVIDIA's RTX Spark chip, present a compelling challenge to Apple's MacBook Pro lineup for creative professionals. The ProArt P16 measures just 3.9 pounds and 0.51 inches thick, while the ProArt P14 is 3.2 pounds and 0.55 inches — both significantly slimmer and lighter than the equivalent MacBook Pro models. ASUS has equipped both laptops with Lumina Pro OLED displays offering up to 4K resolution (3K on the P14), 120Hz refresh rates, 1,600 nits of peak brightness, 100 percent DCI-P3 coverage, and Delta E less than 1 color accuracy — matching or exceeding Apple's XDR displays while offering superior OLED contrast and black levels.

According to Engadget, the RTX Spark-powered ProArt laptops are designed for demanding creative workflows beyond what previous Windows on Arm systems could handle. ASUS claims the laptops can render ultra-large 90GB-plus 3D scenes, edit 12K 4:2:2 video, run 120-billion-parameter LLMs with up to 1 million tokens of context, and play AAA games at 1440p and 100 frames per second — all leveraging the chip's 128GB of unified memory, RTX 5070-class Blackwell GPU, and dedicated AI neural processing unit. The systems support key content creation applications including Adobe Creative Cloud, Blackmagic DaVinci Resolve 21, and Blender for Windows 11 on Arm.

The article notes that key questions remain: pricing has not been revealed, battery life under creative workloads is unknown, and Windows 11's Copilot+ integration remains uneven. However, the hardware combination of RTX Spark's GPU performance, OLED display quality, and slim design positions the ProArt lineup as a genuine alternative for video editors, photographers, and other creators who currently rely on MacBook Pros. ASUS's laptops will launch alongside the first wave of RTX Spark devices in the second half of 2026.