ASUS has launched the ProArt GR1X mini-PC — the first confirmed desktop system built around NVIDIA’s RTX Spark SoC, and it’s priced at $1,299 in the US and Rs 1,09,990 in India. Pre-orders opened globally on 9 October 2026, with shipments expected to begin 28 October. The device is marketed as a compact workstation that doubles as a 1440p gaming rig, claiming 100FPS in AAA titles at that resolution while drawing just 140W of power. That TDP figure is central to ASUS’s pitch: the GR1X uses only a dual-fan, four-heatpipe cooling setup, not the bulky vapor chambers or liquid loops typical of high-end mini-PCs. It’s built for desks, not server racks. And for creators who also play. But the 100FPS claim comes with quiet caveats. Wccftech notes ASUS hasn’t published frame-time breakdowns, GPU utilization stats, or test conditions. The number appears tied to DLSS 4.5 upscaling and NVIDIA’s Multi-Frame Generation (MFG), which can interpolate up to six frames per rendered frame. Since RTX Spark is based on Blackwell, MFG support is baked in, but real-world stability, latency impact, and visual fidelity under heavy interpolation remain unmeasured by third parties. The GR1X also targets AI workloads: ASUS says it handles 120B-parameter LLMs with up to one million token context windows, and renders 90GB 3D scenes. Those are workload categories, not benchmarks. No throughput numbers, no inference speeds, no memory bandwidth specs are given. What is confirmed: fourth-gen Ray Tracing cores, full Blackwell feature parity, and the same architecture powering the first wave of RTX Spark laptops now hitting pre-order. This isn’t a replacement for a full tower. It’s a new category, small, silent, and spec’d for hybrid use. And it arrives just as developers start building tools explicitly for RTX Spark’s integrated AI stack. Unity’s Spark platform, for example, was just announced as AI-native. And now there’s hardware ready to run it without a cloud round-trip. Availability starts 28 October. No UK or EU pricing has been disclosed.