Surface Laptop Ultra review: The most powerful Surface yet, but it still lags behind Apple

Microsoft’s Surface Laptop Ultra is its most powerful Surface yet, built around NVIDIA’s RTX Spark chip and aimed at users who need high performance and local AI capabilities. Its premium design, bright 15-inch screen and potential for up to 128GB of unified memory make it a flagship Windows laptop, but the high price limits its appeal.

The base model costs $2,599, with 18 CPU cores and 5,120 GPU cores; a higher-spec version costs $3,700 and has 20 CPU cores and 6,144 GPU cores. RTX Spark’s shared memory can support large AI models, and its graphics performance is described as similar to a laptop RTX 5070, though its Arm processor may require older software and drivers to run through emulation.