Skip to main content
  1. Home
  2. Computing
  3. News

Asus puts a petaflop of AI ambition into ProArt laptops

Asus thinks your next creative laptop needs a serious AI workout

Add as a preferred source on Google
Asus ProArt Series
Asus ProArt Series
Purple, Art, Graphics
This story is part of our coverage of IFA Berlin 2026
Updated less than 1 hour ago

Asus is taking its ProArt lineup deeper into the AI era with the new ProArt P16 and ProArt P14, the first ProArt laptops powered by Nvidia’s RTX Spark platform. The company is showcasing the machines at IFA 2026 in Berlin, positioning them as portable workstations for creators and developers who increasingly want to run AI workloads directly on their PCs.

RTX Spark brings powerful local AI to ProArt laptops

The biggest change is happening under the hood. Nvidia RTX Spark combines a Blackwell RTX GPU with 6,144 cores, an Nvidia Grace CPU with up to 20 cores, and fifth-generation Tensor Cores with FP4 precision. Asus says the platform can deliver up to 1 petaflop of AI performance and up to 128GB of unified memory.

For creators, that means the ProArt laptops are being built around a different idea of what an AI PC should do. Instead of constantly sending prompts, files and creative workloads to the cloud, users can run demanding AI applications locally. Asus highlights benefits such as avoiding token-based cloud costs, keeping sensitive creative assets on the machine, and working with AI even when offline.

Recommended Videos

The hardware is also surprisingly portable for what Asus is promising. The ProArt P16 measures just 12.9mm thick and weighs 1.77kg, making it the company’s thinnest 16-inch ProArt laptop. The ProArt P14 weighs 1.48kg and measures 13.9mm thick. They pack 99Wh and 90Wh batteries respectively, giving mobile creators plenty of capacity for longer creative sessions.

OLED screens and AI tools complete the package

The displays are clearly aimed at professional creative work rather than simply gaming or general productivity. The ProArt P16 supports up to a 4K 120Hz OLED display with VRR, while the P14 goes up to 3K resolution. Both use Asus Lumina Pro OLED technology with Delta E below 1 for color accuracy, while peak brightness reaches 1,600 nits.

Asus is pairing the hardware with its own local AI software. MuseTree integrates local image-generation models including FLUX and WAN, allowing creators to generate content without relying on cloud tokens. StoryCube uses AI for scene recognition, media organisation and asset management. Asus is also demonstrating agentic workflows through ComfyUI, showing how AI agents could move between generation, editing and asset management instead of operating as isolated tools.

The RTX Spark-powered ProArt P16 and P14 therefore represent Asus’ attempt to make local AI genuinely useful for creators, rather than simply adding an AI badge to another laptop. Asus has not provided pricing or detailed regional availability in the supplied announcement.

Moinak Pal
Moinak Pal is has been working in the technology sector covering both consumer centric tech and automotive technology for the…
As AI takes over schools, teachers are going back to basics to curb AI cheating
AI detectors kept getting it wrong, so schools are trying something that actually works.
ChatGPT on iPhone

Last year, teachers spent most of their energy trying to catch students using ChatGPT to write essays. This year, many have decided that's a losing battle, especially since the detectors meant to catch cheaters have been burning innocent students instead. 

A Bloomberg investigation found popular tools like GPTZero and Copyleaks wrongly flagged pre-ChatGPT college essays as AI-written, and one UC Davis senior was accused of cheating and handed a zero on his midterm, purely based on a detector's score, even though he wrote every word himself.

Read more
Meta’s Muse agent is getting closer, and it might take over your to-do list
Meta’s upcoming AI life manager does more than just answer questions.
Meta Logo

While most people's idea of AI is just a chatbot, agentic uses help build them as something more. Finding an email attachment, remembering a deadline, or following up on something that many people can take advantage of. Meta’s upcoming Muse agent is coming in as that solution.

Early screenshots shared by TestingCatalog show a personal assistant that can proactively handle everyday tasks and keep track of longer-term goals. The agent has reportedly moved from internal testing into a limited closed alpha, with invite-code functionality now appearing alongside its waitlist.

Read more
Chuwi reveals powerhouse Ryzen AI MAX+ PRO 495 workstation with a slick design at IFA 2026
Chuwi's new AI workstation is small in size but massive in brainpower.
Chuwi Ryzen AI MAX+ PRO 495 workstation

Running massive AI models has usually meant relying on the cloud or building a hefty rig. Chuwi's newest mini PC squeezes that kind of power into a box small enough to sit on your desk.

At IFA Berlin 2026, the company unveiled the UniBox AI495 Pro, a mini workstation built around AMD's flagship Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 495 chip, codenamed Gorgon Halo. AMD first teased this processor back in May 2026, and now Chuwi is putting it to work.

Read more