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What's conspicuously absent, is the CPU that's going to power this thing. Yes, it's got an Nvidia GPU, but does it have an Intel CPU, an AMD CPU, an Nvidia ARM

What's conspicuously absent, is the CPU that's going to power this thing. Yes, it's got an Nvidia GPU, but does it have an Intel CPU, an AMD CPU, an Nvidia ARM CPU, or someone else's ARM CPU?

trympet 5mo ago
My understanding is that it’s got a bespoke 20 core Nvidia Vera CPU - unified RTX Vera Rubin Spark chip. Seems like Nvidia trying to copy Apple M-series chip
- int0x29 5mo ago
  Isn't it a mediatek CPU with an Nvidia GPU on the same package? At least thats what most of the reporting for nvidia laptop chips has been saying.
- TiredOfLife 5mo ago
  It's the same chip that is in DGX Spark (it was delayed by 1-2 years). Blackwell GPU on one chiplet and Mediatek cpu with off the shelf cores
taffydavid 5mo ago
I could be wrong but I don't think there are any arm machines with nvidia GPU yet, I think that would be a first. So it's probably Intel
- fragmede 5mo ago
  Nvidia's current flagship product is Nvidia GB200 NVL72, which is a super computer the size of however many racks you can afford, with 72 Blackwell CPUs and 36 Grace ARM CPUs to a rack. At the other end of the spectrum, is the Nvidia Jetson series, which is a GPU attached to an Nvidia Grace ARM CPU. Nevermind, it's totally this chip/board. https://www.techtimes.com/articles/317428/20260530/nvidia-arm-laptop-chip-n1x-confirmed-computex-cuda-rtx-5070-gpu-onboard.htm https://www.techtimes.com/articles/317428/20260530/nvidia-ar...
  - taffydavid 5mo ago
    Yeah that's definitely it. So that makes this an arm device with nvidia GPU. It's not the first as you pointed out, but it would be a more consumer shaped example - a laptop that normal people might be able to afford
T-A 5mo ago
https://www.theverge.com/news/940275/nvidia-n1x-laptop-processor-arm-microsoft-teaser https://www.theverge.com/news/940275/nvidia-n1x-laptop-proce...
dmitrygr 5mo ago
Completely garden-variety normal ARM-designed cores: Cortex-X925 and Cortex-A725
trynumber9 5mo ago
It's the same configuration as GB10. 20 core MediaTek 3nm part which is competitive with a AMD's 2025 16 core 4nm part with similar power draw. https://www.servethehome.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/cpu2026_total_allcores.png https://www.servethehome.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/cpu2...
- adrian_b 5mo ago
  "Competitive" as in "slower". The SPEC benchmark is useful to estimate the performance of computers that will run programs that are not optimized for their specific architecture. The Ryzen was already faster in SPEC, but when running programs that use AVX-512 the difference in speed between the Ryzen CPU and this NVIDIA/Mediatek CPU will be much greater than in the SPEC benchmark.

What's conspicuously absent, is the CPU that's going to power this thing. Yes, it's got an Nvidia GPU, but does it have an Intel CPU, an AMD CPU, an Nvidia ARM CPU, or someone else's ARM CPU?

trympet 5mo ago

My understanding is that it’s got a bespoke 20 core Nvidia Vera CPU - unified RTX Vera Rubin Spark chip. Seems like Nvidia trying to copy Apple M-series chip

int0x29 5mo ago
Isn't it a mediatek CPU with an Nvidia GPU on the same package? At least thats what most of the reporting for nvidia laptop chips has been saying.
TiredOfLife 5mo ago
It's the same chip that is in DGX Spark (it was delayed by 1-2 years). Blackwell GPU on one chiplet and Mediatek cpu with off the shelf cores

taffydavid 5mo ago

I could be wrong but I don't think there are any arm machines with nvidia GPU yet, I think that would be a first. So it's probably Intel

fragmede 5mo ago
Nvidia's current flagship product is Nvidia GB200 NVL72, which is a super computer the size of however many racks you can afford, with 72 Blackwell CPUs and 36 Grace ARM CPUs to a rack. At the other end of the spectrum, is the Nvidia Jetson series, which is a GPU attached to an Nvidia Grace ARM CPU. Nevermind, it's totally this chip/board. https://www.techtimes.com/articles/317428/20260530/nvidia-arm-laptop-chip-n1x-confirmed-computex-cuda-rtx-5070-gpu-onboard.htm https://www.techtimes.com/articles/317428/20260530/nvidia-ar...
- taffydavid 5mo ago
  Yeah that's definitely it. So that makes this an arm device with nvidia GPU. It's not the first as you pointed out, but it would be a more consumer shaped example - a laptop that normal people might be able to afford

T-A 5mo ago

https://www.theverge.com/news/940275/nvidia-n1x-laptop-processor-arm-microsoft-teaser https://www.theverge.com/news/940275/nvidia-n1x-laptop-proce...

dmitrygr 5mo ago

Completely garden-variety normal ARM-designed cores: Cortex-X925 and Cortex-A725

trynumber9 5mo ago

It's the same configuration as GB10. 20 core MediaTek 3nm part which is competitive with a AMD's 2025 16 core 4nm part with similar power draw. https://www.servethehome.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/cpu2026_total_allcores.png https://www.servethehome.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/cpu2...

adrian_b 5mo ago
"Competitive" as in "slower". The SPEC benchmark is useful to estimate the performance of computers that will run programs that are not optimized for their specific architecture. The Ryzen was already faster in SPEC, but when running programs that use AVX-512 the difference in speed between the Ryzen CPU and this NVIDIA/Mediatek CPU will be much greater than in the SPEC benchmark.