At Computex 2026, Asus revealed three workstation-class machines, the ProArt P16 and P14 laptops and a ProArt Mini PC, all built around Nvidia's Arm-based RTX Spark chip. It is a quiet but telling moment in the long effort to make Windows on Arm a serious home for demanding creative and AI work, a path already shared by Microsoft's Surface Laptop Ultra. The promise is strong on paper, yet prices and release dates are still withheld, so the real verdict waits for the machines to reach the people who will test them.
Asus Unveils ProArt P16, P14 and Mini PC Built on Nvidia's Arm-Based RTX Spark Chip
At Computex 2026, Asus revealed three workstation-class machines, the ProArt P16 and P14 laptops and a ProArt Mini PC, all built around Nvidia's Arm-based RTX Spark chip. It is a quiet but telling moment in the long effort to make Windows on Arm a serious home for demanding creative and AI work, a path already shared by Microsoft's Surface Laptop Ultra. The promise is strong on paper, yet prices and release dates are still withheld, so the real verdict waits for the machines to reach the people who will test them.
At Computex 2026, Asus put three new machines on display: the ProArt P16, the ProArt P14, and a compact ProArt Mini PC. What links them is the chip inside. All three are Asus's first devices built on Nvidia's Arm-based RTX Spark, a processor aimed at AI work and demanding creative workflows.
The chip matters beyond Asus. It is positioned as a step up from the Qualcomm Snapdragon X devices that have defined Windows on Arm so far, and it also powers Microsoft's Surface Laptop Ultra. Asus says it worked directly with Nvidia to bring a Blackwell RTX GPU experience to a laptop.
The P16 carries the headline numbers: up to 6,144 Blackwell RTX cores, 128GB of unified LPDDR5X memory, and what Asus says adds up to 1 petaflop of AI performance. Its 16-inch 4K OLED touchscreen reaches 1,600 nits, and the body stays slim at 12.9mm and 1.77kg. The P14 is the smaller sibling, with a 3K HDR display at 120Hz, and both panels cover 100 percent of DCI-P3 color.
What Asus has not said is just as important. Pricing and availability are still unknown, and the petaflop figure is the company's own claim, without independent testing yet. Once those answers arrive, the real question will be how RTX Spark performs against Snapdragon X machines.
At Computex 2026, Asus put three new workstation-class machines on display: the ProArt P16, the ProArt P14, and a new ProArt Mini PC. What they share is the chip inside. All three are the first Asus devices built on Nvidia's Arm-based RTX Spark, a processor designed with AI work and demanding creative workflows in mind.
The RTX Spark matters beyond Asus. It is positioned as a step up from the Arm-powered Qualcomm Snapdragon X devices that have defined Windows on Arm so far, and it is the same platform announced for Microsoft's Surface Laptop Ultra. Asus says it worked directly with Nvidia on the P16 and P14, aiming to bring a Blackwell RTX GPU experience and what it calls premium AI performance to a laptop.
The P16 carries the headline numbers. It offers up to 6,144 Blackwell RTX cores and 128GB of unified LPDDR5X memory, which Asus says adds up to 1 petaflop of AI performance. The display is a 16-inch, 16:10 4K Tandem OLED touchscreen with a peak brightness of 1,600 nits. For a machine with those specifications, the body is slim: 0.5 inches (12.9mm) thick and 3.9 pounds (1.77kg).
The P14 is the smaller sibling, with a 14-inch 3K HDR display running at 120Hz. Both laptop panels cover 100 percent of the DCI-P3 color gamut, a standard measure of color range for video and design professionals, which fits the ProArt line's focus on color-accurate creator hardware.
The ProArt Mini PC takes the same silicon into a much smaller form. It has 128GB of unified memory, 10GbE wired networking, and an M.2 PCIe Gen 5 x4 expansion slot, all inside a 150 × 150 × 51mm body.
What Asus has not said is just as notable. Pricing and availability for all three devices have not been revealed, so there is no release date and no figure to weigh against the specifications. The petaflop figure is Asus's own claim for the top configuration, and independent testing has yet to appear.
Asus is not alone. The ProArt P16 and P14 are among the first Windows 11 laptops announced with RTX Spark, joining Dell's XPS 16, Lenovo's Yoga Pro 9n, and MSI's Prestige N16 Flip AI, along with other models. Once prices, ship dates, and real-world benchmarks arrive, the question will be how RTX Spark performs against Qualcomm's Snapdragon X machines on Windows on Arm.
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