{"id":1724751,"date":"2026-10-20T16:08:45","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T16:08:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/HS2rJCTo8iT9ZZpuDJPuYA"},"modified":"2026-10-20T16:08:45","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T16:08:45","slug":"asus-proart-p16-h7607-rtx-spark-laptop-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/asus-proart-p16-h7607-rtx-spark-laptop-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Asus ProArt P16 (H7607) RTX Spark laptop review"},"content":{"rendered":"
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If you don’t talk to me about the price, I will tell you the Asus ProArt P16<\/a> is an unbelievably good gaming laptop. It is beautifully slim, runs incredibly well gaming on battery, and has an absolutely stunning 16-inch OLED screen. And its Arm-based SoC is almost entirely transparent when it comes to running pretty much anything on Windows 11.<\/p>\n

But this is no mere Snapdragon device, this the RTX Spark<\/a>; Nvidia’s first foray into the world of full Windows SoCs. It’s pairing a relatively beefy RTX Blackwell GPU with a whole bunch of Arm CPU cores, and doing so with lots and lots and lots of LPDDR5X memory. Y’know, for AI.<\/p>\n

Which, er, is why you might not want to ask about that price. Memory’s expensive, and these RTX Spark laptops\u2014of which the Asus ProArt P16 is, in my opinion, the most desirable\u2014are likewise brutally<\/em> priced. I have the 64 GB version, with the top Nvidia N1X SoC inside it, and it will set you back $4,400.<\/p>\n

It is that price both for AI and because of AI, and is being sold as the ‘One PC’ that can do everything. It can game, it can run creative apps, and it can slam through local AI workloads like no other laptop before. But where you’re probably expecting me to trot out the old ‘jack of all trades, master of none’ line here, that’s not really the case. There are tradeoffs, sure, but it’s really, really good at the lot. And did I mention it was pretty? <\/p>\n

The real question here, however, is whether a PC gamer ought to be considering this machine for their next laptop. And if it’s just to play games on, this would not be my first choice, however good a device I think it is. The performance, for an Arm-powered laptop, is impressive in terms of the experience, but not faultless. While Microsoft is working hard on Prism and opening up support for every anti-cheat software going, it is not complete. And checking against my back-of-the-napkin list of the 15 biggest PC games around right now you’re looking at around half of them not being playable. Yet.<\/p>\n

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Buy if…<\/h3>\n
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\u2705 You’re a creator or local AI head who games on the side:<\/strong> If you’re after an almost workstation style thin and light machine, but also want to play after dark, the ProArt P16 will cover all bases<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Don't buy if…<\/h3>\n
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\u274c You just want a gaming laptop:<\/strong> There are other thin and light gaming machines that will cost a fraction of what this does, but perform as well in-game.<\/p>\n

\u274c You have to ask the price:<\/strong> These are machines for the very well-off PC user.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Asus ProArt P16 – Features<\/span><\/h2>\n
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CPU<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Nvidia RTX Spark N1X<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Cores<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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20 total
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GPU<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Nvidia Blackwell RTX<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Cores<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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6144 CUDA cores<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Memory<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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64 GB LPDDR5X RAM<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Storage<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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1 TB NVMe M.2 SSD<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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16-inch 3K OLED 100% DCI-P3 120 Hz Touchscreen<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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OS<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Microsoft Windows 11 Home 64-bit<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Colour<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Nano Black<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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ASUS 12 Month Collect & Return Warranty<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Price<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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\u00a33,900<\/a> | $4,400<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n

There are many like it, but this one is mine: The 20-core N1X chip, with 10 performance and 10 efficient cores, and the 6144 CUDA core GPU component. This version also comes with a 1 TB SSD (for a $4,400<\/a> spec? \ud83d\ude2c I know) and 64 GB of LPDDR5X-9400 memory. <\/p>\n

This version of the ProArt P16 is rocking the 16-inch 2880 x 1800 touchscreen OLED display, while there is also a 3840 x 2400 OLED screen available (both 120 Hz) if you go for one of the even pricier models. That one’s a touch brighter, but this 1800p OLED will still output at 500 nits, with a 1100 nit peak HDR output, so it’s no slouch.<\/p>\n

The paucity of storage is a definite disappointment for something at this price\u2014look lower down the stack and you’ll still be paying $2800 for the 24 GB version with just a 512 GB SSD. And I honestly do not see the point in that one except for all concerned to be able to say RTX Spark laptops “start from $2800”. There is, however, a spare PCIe Gen5 SSD slot in the rear of the machine, which is easily accessible once you remove lots<\/em> of torx screws.<\/p>\n

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The keyboard would be a genuinely lovely thing for this device if I wasn’t regularly getting additional keystrokes I did not ask for. I’ve had to keep deleting the extra spaces this thing keeps adding into my copy. There. I just had to kill another one. It’s annoying. <\/p>\n

What isn’t annoying at all, though, is the glorious, massive <\/em>haptic touchpad Asus has jammed onto this thing. It quite literally takes up half the width of the device. It’s great to the touch, and impressively responsive as your digits glide across its surface. Mmm. Smooth.<\/p>\n

It’s meant to have a webcam, too, but I cannot for the life of me find out how to turn the damned thing on. I’m assuming that somewhere in there a ribbon cable has become ejected because the device sees nothing. This is what I mean by some quality control issues…<\/p>\n

Asus ProArt P16 – Value<\/span><\/h2>\n

Haha. Hahahahahaha. Hahahahahahahahahahahaha.<\/p>\n

C’mon. This is the mid-range ProArt P16 for $4,400<\/a>. Any sense of value left the station a loooooooong time ago.<\/p>\n

Asus ProArt P16 – Sound<\/span><\/h2>\n
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This is a very pleasant surprise. The up-firing speakers set either side of the ProArt P16’s keyboard are really, really good. Obviously that’s still really, really good for laptop speakers,<\/em> and they’re are never going to replace your bookshelf speakers, but for clarity and, yes, even bass they do incredibly well.<\/p>\n

And they’re loud enough that they can largely overcome the sound coming out of the vents on the ProArt P16 when it’s running in full performance mode. It does get rather chatty when the silicon is running at full throttle, and when you’re talking about a system that’s going to max out its GPU component when running both games and local large language models, that’s probably going to happen quite a lot.<\/p>\n

The pleasing thing, however, is that knocking things down to the Balanced preset in the ProArt Creator Hub (essentially a reskinned Armoury Crate) means that your performance only drops by a few percentage points but the fan noise drops by a whole hell of a lot. It’s not silent\u2014you have to dip into Whisper mode for that\u2014but this is the preset you’re going to want to spend most of your time running in.<\/p>\n

Asus ProArt P16 – Performance<\/span><\/h2>\n
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Somewhat inevitably, performance is a mixed bag of chips when it comes to the RTX Spark. For one, this is a first-gen product from Nvidia, fusing essentially off-the-shelf Arm cores with its own GPU cores, so broad, mature support was never going to be 100% there from the get-go. For another we’re talking about games especially that are being run through the Microsoft Prism emulation layer in order for them to run at all on the Asus ProArt P16.<\/p>\n

But even taking all that into account I think the gaming performance of this device is pretty damned impressive. The general suggestion ahead of the launch was that the 6144 CUDA core version would deliver gaming performance at a similar level to the RTX 5070 mobile GPUs. It has more cores than the mobile silicon, but is running at a lower clock speed and with a lower power budget, too.<\/p>\n

Take a look at the relative 1080p gaming performance of Cyberpunk 2077 and Metro Exodus Enhanced Ed. running on the RTX Spark versus the 100 W Framework 16<\/a> or 115 W Razer Blade 14<\/a> and you can see where it doesn’t quite match up to the GPU performance of the more thirsty graphics parts.<\/p>\n

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