Asus ProArt P16 with Nvidia RTX Spark N1X costs $7,000 with 128 GB, per Notebookcheck
Notebookcheck finds the $7,000, 128 GB RTX Spark ProArt P16 weighs under 1.8 kg and matches last year's RTX 5070 model on GPU performance.
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The Asus ProArt P16 is a laptop built on Nvidia’s RTX Spark N1X SoC, and Notebookcheck published its review of the machine on October 19, 2026. The configuration Notebookcheck covers pairs the chip with 128 GB of RAM and costs $7,000. The review, written by managing editor Andreas Osthoff and translated from a German original, calls the laptop “no bargain” but says its target buyers can purchase it “with virtually no reservations.”
The 2026 ProArt P16 (series H7607) uses a redesigned metal chassis that weighs under 1.8 kg, which Notebookcheck says is more than 300 g lighter than Apple’s MacBook Pro 16. The 16-inch display is a 4K tandem OLED panel running at 120 Hz, carried over from the previous top-end model. Per the review, it offers very high brightness, accurate colors and a higher PWM frequency than before, though the article gives no nit figure or PWM value. Fan noise reaches about 50 dB(A) under heavy load, and Notebookcheck says the system can stay quiet when the workload allows. Battery life falls short of 10 hours in the publication’s Wi-Fi runtime measurement. The review also credits the keyboard, the haptic trackpad and the speakers.
On graphics, Notebookcheck reports performance on par with last year’s ProArt P16 equipped with an RTX 5070. The N1X model cannot match the RTX 5090 version of the previous generation, which the review says is better suited to gaming. Notebookcheck names local AI workloads, content creation and gaming as the target uses, and lists the high price and the sub-10-hour battery life as the main drawbacks. For buyers weighing generations, that places the new model below the older RTX 5090 configuration on GPU output.
The review gives no LLM tokens-per-second figures or other exact AI throughput numbers, despite naming local AI as a core use case. It also does not detail CPU benchmark results, battery capacity, storage, ports, other configurations or software compatibility, and it does not state regional availability. Notebookcheck points readers to a separate in-depth review for full measurements. Until figures for local model inference appear, the case for the 128 GB configuration rests on memory capacity rather than measured AI output.
Source: Notebookcheck, October 19, 2026.
Why it matters under load: At $7,000, the N1X ProArt P16 buys 128 GB of memory for local models in a sub-1.8 kg chassis, but its GPU sits at RTX 5070 level and no published tokens-per-second figure yet shows what that memory delivers.