The first performance data of NVIDIA RTX Spark is released. According to the results shared by @lafaiel,This Arm architecture SoC performed well in the Clang compilation benchmark test, beating the Apple M5 by 54.13% with a score of 43149 points, but slightly inferior to the M5 Pro.RTX Spark is equipped with a 20-core Grace CPU, and the integrated Blackwell GPU has 6144 CUDA cores, paired with 128GB of unified memory and 1 PFLOP of FP4 computing power.
Specifically, the 10-core Apple M5 scored 27996, with RTX Spark leading by more than half. The 16-core AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 also failed to catch up with RTX Spark.The latter has the upper hand in multi-threaded compilation with its four extra cores.
The Intel Core Ultra 9 285HX barely leads with a slight advantage with 24 cores and a peak power consumption of up to 160W. The 15-core version of M5 Pro is only 6.95% faster than RTX Spark with 46374 points. The 18-core version of M5 Pro has a wider gap, with 55165 points leading by 21.78%.
From a power consumption perspective, the base power consumption of 285HX reaches 55W, and the peak power consumption can reach 160W. As an Arm architecture SoC, RTX Spark's overall power consumption is much lower than this.
The default TDP of Ryzen AI Max+ 395 is 55W, and the configurable range is 45 to 120W. RTX Spark beats AMD with lower power consumption, clinging to 285HX, with obvious advantages in energy efficiency.
In addition, RTX Spark’s CPU uses the ARM Neoverse V2 architecture, which is not ARM’s latest CPU microarchitecture. This is one of the reasons why the outside world has previously doubted its CPU performance.
However, the scale advantage of 20 cores is fully utilized in multi-threaded compilation scenarios such as Clang, and the number of cores directly translates into compilation speed.
Clang compilation is only one dimension of developer workloads, and game performance comparisons have yet to come. NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang has demonstrated on-site that an RTX Spark notebook runs "007: First Strike" and "Horizon 6" with smooth graphics under battery power.
