{"id":47609,"date":"2026-11-01T01:35:09","date_gmt":"2026-11-01T00:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/01\/this-is-why-you-cant-build-your-own-rtx-spark-pc\/"},"modified":"2026-11-01T01:35:09","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T00:35:09","slug":"this-is-why-you-cant-build-your-own-rtx-spark-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/01\/this-is-why-you-cant-build-your-own-rtx-spark-pc\/","title":{"rendered":"This is why you can\u2019t build your own RTX Spark PC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When you purchase through links in our articles, we may earn a small commission. This doesn&#8217;t affect our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/about\/affiliate-link-policy\" target=\"_blank\">editorial independence<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Executive Editor, PCWorld \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p> \t\t\t  \t\t \t \t \t\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t \t\t\t \t\t\t\tMy monster PC has 128GB of memory. AI doesn\u2019t care.\t\t\t \t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t\t \t\t \t\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t\t     <\/p>\n<p>The Asus ProArt P16 RTX Spark has 128GB of memory. So does my desktop, basically. My desktop also has a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/2585806\/nvidia-geforce-rtx-5090-review.html\">GeForce RTX 5090<\/a>, the fastest consumer graphics card Nvidia has ever made, and one that\u2019s an absolute monster for AI tasks.<\/p>\n<p>So, why did the laptop finish my massive local AI workload almost 20 minutes faster? Because my desktop has all that memory in the wrong damned places.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve been putting the staggeringly expensive <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/3267291\/this-7000-asus-rtx-spark-laptop-feels-like-darth-vaders-macbook-pro.html\">$7,000 Asus ProArt P16 laptop<\/a> through some unusual tests for my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/3271512\/asus-proart-p16-review-rtx-spark-vs-ai.html\">AI-focused RTX Spark review<\/a>,<\/p>\n<p> <a class=\"echo_read_more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/3272014\/why-you-cant-just-build-your-own-rtx-spark-pc.html\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0\u00bb\u00a0More Info >>><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you purchase through links in our articles, we may earn a small commission. This doesn&#8217;t affect our editorial independence . Executive Editor, PCWorld My monster PC has 128GB of memory. AI doesn\u2019t care. The Asus ProArt P16 RTX Spark has 128GB of memory. So does my desktop, basically. My desktop also has a GeForce<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":47610,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpai_generated_summary":"","wpai_meta_description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[348,2779,1117,36,2963],"class_list":["post-47609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tech","tag-ai","tag-desktop-pcs","tag-laptops","tag-mixtv","tag-personal-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47609\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}