Asus has started selling the ProArt P16 RTX Spark. It's a 16-inch laptop built around Nvidia's new RTX Spark chip, and it isn't cheap. Prices start at $4,399.99 in the US, £3,899.99 in the UK and AU$7,999 in Australia. It launched October 9 and is on sale now. No Indian pricing yet.
The RTX Spark chip packs 20 ARM CPU cores and a 6,144-core CUDA GPU. The base configuration pairs that with 64GB of RAM. Asus wants this to be one machine for AI development, creative work and gaming, rather than a specialist at any single one of those.
What TechRadar's testing found
TechRadar published a review on Wednesday. The reviewer ran AI, creative and gaming workloads on the machine. Results were mixed but mostly strong.
Running the open-source Qwen 3 8B model locally, a basic data analysis task took about 12 minutes. Heavier jobs struggled more. Automating 3DMark benchmarks needed several 75-minute runs before completion times actually improved.
Creative work fared better. TechRadar's PugetBench results for Photoshop and Premiere Pro put the laptop only slightly behind Apple's M5 chip on image tasks. It beat the M5 on video tasks. A 4K, 300dpi Photoshop file loaded with clipping masks ran smoothly through filters and generative fill, according to the review. Downscaling a roughly 2GB file to 2K took about five seconds.
Gaming didn't match dedicated RTX 5080 or 5090 laptops. That was expected. Still, TechRadar's reviewer reported a steady 60fps in Cyberpunk 2077 on Raytracing Medium settings. Gears of War: E-Day ran past 110fps.
Battery life landed at 11 hours of continuous video playback. Productivity work stretched that past 14 hours. Neither number touches the MacBook Pro M5 Pro, which TechRadar previously clocked at over 21 hours. But 14 hours covers most workdays.
Build quality and pricing tiers
The screen is the headline feature. TechRadar's review praised the 1,100-nit OLED panel, which covers 100% of the DCI-P3 color gamut and runs at 120Hz with variable refresh rate. The metal chassis and keyboard also drew praise.
Not everything impressed. The trackpad triggered right-clicks too easily, the reviewer found. The hinge wobbled more than expected at this price.
The $4,399.99 configuration ships with a 3K display, 1TB of storage and the higher-end Nvidia RTX Spark N1X chip, with its full 6,144-core GPU and 20-core CPU. Asus reserves that chip for this larger model over its smaller sibling. Step up to 128GB of RAM, a 4K screen and 2TB of storage, and the price jumps to $6,999.99 in the US, £5,999.99 in the UK or AU$10,999 in Australia.
TechRadar's read: a capable all-rounder, not a category leader. It costs roughly what a high-end gaming laptop or professional workstation would, without quite matching either at its own specialty. Whether that trade makes sense depends on one thing: does a buyer need one machine that does several jobs well, or one machine that does a single job brilliantly.
CDFiled by The Computing Desk
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