Microsoft has Surface Laptop Ultra announcedIt is being said to be the most powerful Surface Laptop ever. Developed in partnership with NVIDIA, it features NVIDIA Blackwell RTX GPUs with up to 128GB of integrated memory and full CUDA support. Microsoft is targeting creators, developers, and AI professionals seeking local workloads.
It is expected that this device will be available later this year. It is the first Surface Laptop to combine NVIDIA Blackwell RTX GPUs with integrated memory and CUDA, signaling an expanded hardware partnership between Microsoft and NVIDIA on the Windows platform.
Surface Laptop Ultra performance and native AI capabilities
The main feature of the Surface Laptop Ultra is its native AI computing power. Microsoft says the device provides a petaflop of AI compute based on NVIDIA’s FP4 TOPS data that utilizes the sparsity feature.
It can run models with up to 120 billion parameters locally. The device also has up to 128GB of integrated memory that is dynamically shared between the CPU and GPU.
This unified memory setup allows RAM to be allocated where it is needed most, supporting AI creation, 3D rendering, and workflows involving multiple models running at the same time. The device is optimized for RTX Spark and tuned for Windows.
Microsoft says the CPU architecture is designed to be energy efficient enough for all-day battery life, although the company says battery figures are based on internal testing of pre-release units and may vary depending on usage.
Surface Laptop Ultra performance, design and availability
The Surface Laptop Ultra features a 15-inch Mini-LED PixelSense Ultra touchscreen that offers several notable features.
It can reach a maximum of 2,000 nits HDR brightness, making it the brightest display Microsoft has shipped. The pixel density of the screen is 262 pixels per inch and it offers high-quality color accuracy. The device also includes the largest haptic touchpad seen on a surface to date.
The Surface Laptop Ultra is part of a broader effort to introduce high-performance NVIDIA silicon into Windows laptops. This follows a series of teasers from NVIDIA, Microsoft, and Arm that point toward announcing a “new era of PCs” at Computex 2026, where NVIDIA is expected to unveil its N1 consumer CPUs.
The Surface Laptop Ultra represents Microsoft’s hardware contribution in this direction, focusing on local AI workloads rather than relying on cloud-based processing.
The Surface Laptop Ultra is expected to launch later this year. Microsoft has not disclosed details regarding pricing, specific configurations, CPU specifications or regional availability.
The company mentions that the device is a pre-release product, which means features may change and depend on regulatory approvals in different regions.
