Nvidia N1X Windows-on-Arm chip shows up on FurMark

Previous leaks showed us what Nvidia's N1X laptop GPU had in store. Geekbench confirmed it would come with a 20-core CPU (10+10) and a GPU with 6,144 CUDA cores; the same specs as the commercially available DGX Spark. Now, Videocardz has spotted the hardware on another platform.

The Nvidia N1X scores 4,268 (71 FPS) points in FurMark's benchmarking tool. Like its Geekbench showing, the GPU is clearly performing below its full capacity at 63% due to unoptimized drivers. Future revisions will fix it, and at full capacity, it should perform somewhere between an RTX 5070 and an RTX 5080 laptop GPU.

It'll be a while before we see the N1X in action because the chip has supposedly been delayed to 2026. The market for high-performance chips will be a lot more intense by then, with Intel's Nova Lake-AX and AMD's Medusa Halo also slated to launch that year.

However, the N1X has the potential to shake up the Windows-on-Arm segment. Here, its sole competition is Qualcomm with its Snapdragon X Elite/Plus lineup. AMD's Arm-based Sound Wave chips might also show up eventually, but there's no word about when that might happen.