Microsoft announces Surface Laptop Ultra with NVIDIA RTX Spark processor

Fourteen years after launching its first Windows on ARM Surface with an NVIDIA chip, a device that quickly turned out to be a big failure, Microsoft is trying once again. Today, at Computex 2026, Microsoft announced the Surface Laptop Ultra, its most powerful Surface to date, powered by NVIDIA's new RTX Spark, the newly announced ARM processor for Windows on ARM.

Microsoft is still keeping the full details under wraps. Still, it says that the Surface Laptop Ultra is the most powerful laptop with an NVIDIA Blackwell RTX graphics and up to 128GB of unified memory, similar to modern MacBooks with their M Series processors. Performance-wise, Microsoft promises up to 1 petaflop of AI performance and RTX 5070-level of GPU performance with up to 20 CPU cores and 6,144 GPU cores. Additionally, Microsoft and NVIDIA boast high CPU efficiency for all-day battery life.

We designed Surface Laptop Ultra from the inside out. Mechanical, electrical, thermal, acoustic, materials, industrial design and software engineers at the table from day one. The internal architecture and the external form built as one system. Our engineers designed it with the same discipline we know you bring to your craft, where every micron matters and every choice is deliberate.

Specs also include a 15-inch mini-LED display with a pixel density of 262 ppi and a maximum brightness of 2,000 nits. You also get a decent set of ports, including one HDMI, USB Type-C, USB Type-A, an SD card reader, a headphone jack, and a big haptic trackpad similar to the recently announced Surface Laptop for Business with Intel's Core Ultra 300 processors. Finally, you will get to choose from two color options: Platinum and Nightfall.

Microsoft is not revealing the Surface Laptop Ultra price or the rest of the specs, including available configurations, storage, and more. The device is launching later this year, alongside other RTX Spark-powered computers from ASUS, Dell, Lenovo, HP, and MSI.