Computex 2026 Hardware Semiconductor Qualcomm Executive Is “Excited” For The RTX Spark’s Arrival And Wants To Welcome It To the New Family Of SoCs That’s “Growing Outside Of x86” Omar Sohail • at EDT Add on Google More competition is always better NVIDIA’s announcement of the RTX Spark has caught the attention of the entire computing industry, including Qualcomm’s, which now needs to find a new way to deal with its latest rival. Then again, the company’s Senior Vice President of Computing, Kedar Kondap, doesn’t appear to be fazed by the unveiling because in a Q&A session with the executive, he expressed a warm welcome to the RTX Spark. The Snapdragon X2 Elite family has a clear advantage over the RTX Spark, but the SoC is severely lacking in one department, which Qualcomm needs to address Kondap was asked what he thinks about NVIDIA entering the Windows on ARM platform, with the RTX Spark now competing against the Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme and Snapdragon X2 Elite. Based on the reply below that Windows Central received, the Qualcomm executive is embracing the competition with open arms. Related Story RTX Spark Once Again Hinted To Have A Surprisingly Powerful GPU, With A Laptop Featuring The SoC Running Alan Wake 2 With Ray Reconstruction Enabled “Welcome to the family. We are, you know, we're excited. When you think about the investments that we've made over the last several years, it's a good endorsement of the fact that there is an ecosystem that's growing outside of x86. We invested many years ago, driving the ecosystem and driving the entire platform story, whether it is getting the printers to work, whether it's getting the software apps to be compatible, whether it is getting the docks and peripherals to work, whether it's getting more than 2,500 games to be compatible with Snapdragon. We led the way in driving that ecosystem, and I think this is positive tailwinds for the entire ecosystem. It will tell us how we're all taking the ball forward in the trajectory that we started.” The RTX Spark has been marketed by NVIDIA to be able to run high-fidelity AAA games at the 1440p resolution and at 100FPS. While there are no metrics to provide, the chipset was teased to be able to run Alan Wake 2, with Jensen Huang himself showcasing to the crowd that the RTX Spark can handle 007 First Light and Forza Horizon 6 on notebooks functioning on battery power. However, its weakness lies in single-core and multi-core performance, with an earlier comparison showing that the RTX Spark is slower than Apple’s 3-year-old M3 Max. On the other end of the spectrum, the Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme will demolish the RTX Spark in compute tasks, but when it comes to gaming, Qualcomm’s latest and greatest is slower than the M5, which is a serious concern because the company will lose out on a major market that wants both productivity and gaming in a single package. Buyers can easily forego a small computing hit in favor of incredibly fast gaming performance, and this is an area where NVIDIA could capitalize on, depending on how pricey RTX Spark-powered laptops will be. Even if Qualcomm is excited for a new player in this category, it needs to figure out how it’ll scale past one of its biggest hurdles and fast. We say this because NVIDIA has a massive roadmap where it plans to introduce various successors from 2027 onwards, so it’ll be interesting to see how Qualcomm and Apple respond. About the : Omar Sohail is a and analyst for 's mobile section, specializing in the technology and business of the mobile industry. His expertise lies in the intricate hardware supply chain, covering developments in semiconductor manufacturing, chip lithography, and camera sensor technology. Follow on Google to get more of our news coverage in your feeds. Further Reading RTX Spark Gives Decent First Impression Of Its Performance In Developer Workloads Benchmark, Beats M5 By 54%, Marginally Slower Than Base M5 Pro RTX Spark To Jumpstart New Lineup As NVIDIA Will Expand With Vera Rubin Spark & Rosa Feynman Spark Architectures With LPDDR6 RAM Support, Arriving 2027 Onwards First RTX Spark Laptops Wave Arriving This Fall, On-Stage Units Shown To Run AAA Games Like 007 First Light And Forza Horizon 6 On Battery Power TSMC Now Pays Its Biggest Customer NVIDIA, Pulling CUDA-X Into the Fab to Slash Lithography Costs by Up to 50% Read all on Qualcomm Executive Is “Excited” For The RTX Spark’s Arrival And Wants To Welcome It To the New Family Of SoCs That’s “Growing Outside Of x86”
