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ASUS announced the ProArt P16 H7607B laptop featuring an NVIDIA RTX Spark platform. The device is currently available for pre-order.
ASUS announced the ProArt P16 H7607B laptop, which uses the NVIDIA RTX Spark platform. The system includes a Grace CPU with 20 cores, consisting of 10 performance cores and 10 efficiency cores, and a Blackwell RTX GPU with 6,144 CUDA cores. It features 128 GB of LPDDR5X unified memory running at 9400 MT/s.
The laptop has a 16-inch 4K (3840 x 2400) OLED display with a 120 Hz refresh rate, 16:10 aspect ratio, and 1,000,000:1 contrast ratio. ASUS says the screen meets VESA DisplayHDR True Black 1400 standards, covers 100% DCI-P3, and has a Delta E < 1 color accuracy. Storage is provided by two M.2 2280 PCIe 4.0 slots that support up to 2 TB SSDs.
For connectivity, the laptop provides Wi-Fi 7 (802.11be) and Bluetooth 5.4. Ports include one full-size HDMI, two 40 Gbps Thunderbolt-compatible USB Type-C ports, one full-size USB Type-A, one USB Type-C, an SD card slot, and a headphone-microphone combo jack. The device includes a full HD IR camera that supports Windows Hello and comes with a 140 W power supply for its 99.99 Wh 4-cell Li-ion battery.
The laptop weighs 1.77 kg (3.90 lbs) and measures 35.41 x 24.30 x 1.29 to 1.59 cm. Included software consists of GlidX, ScreenXpert, ProArt Creator Hub, MyASUS, MuseTree, and Hermes Agent. The ProArt P16 is priced at $4,399.99 and is available for pre-order.
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