This $7,000 RTX Spark laptop had no business beating my RTX 5090 — but it did
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A $7,000, 128GB unified‑memory laptop outpacing an RTX 5090 desktop on memory‑heavy AI workloads shows how fast “developer‑grade” is moving to portable form factors. For teams building local AI tools or field‑deployed inference, device constraints are loosening—your bottleneck shifts to power, cooling, and data access, not raw compute.
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