Microsoft’s next Surface will be its most powerful yet. The Microsoft Surface Laptop Ultra was just announced at Computex 2026, and it’s taking the MacBook Pro head-on.
The Surface Laptop Ultra packs the just-announced Nvidia RTX Spark system on a chip. It packages up to 20 ARM CPU cores, up to 128GB of LPDDR5X unified RAM, and a Blackwell GPU with 6,144 CUDA cores, which Microsoft says roughly translates to an Nvidia RTX 5070. The power draw is expected to reach up to 80W, so a low-powered 5070.
Microsoft says the thermal headroom of the new Surface Laptop Ultra is 2.5x that of the Surface Laptop 7 15.
The Microsoft Surface Laptop Ultra has a 15-inch MiniLED Ultra screen with 2,000 nits of peak brightness in HDR mode. The laptop reportedly weighs around 2kg, so about as much as a 16-inch MacBook Pro. The Surface Laptop Ultra comes in either Black or Dark Silver
Microsoft says there’s Windows Hello face recognition, and a replaceable SSD – take that, Mac!
While on the topic of the Mac, the Surface Laptop Ultra matches (and even exceeds) Apple’s flagship computer in ports, with three USB-C, a full-sized HDMI, an SD card reader, a 3.5mm audio jack, and even a USB-A port.
Great selection of ports
The Surface Laptop Ultra is coming alongside its new chip in the Fall. Microsoft hasn’t shared any prices, but we’d wager it’s around the MacBook Pro 16, so from around $3,000 (~€3,000) to as high as $7,000 (~€8,000) when maxed out with 128 gigs of RAM and 2TB-4TB of storage.
