NVIDIA N1 Gaming SoC Surfaces on Laptop Motherboard with 128 GB LPDDR5X Memory

NVIDIA’s upcoming N1 SoC, designed for gaming laptops, has officially appeared for the first time alongside its motherboard intended for a laptop. Featuring 128 GB of LPDDR5X memory running at 8,533 MT/s, the SoC is paired with SK hynix modules. NVIDIA’s OEM partners for this launch, including Dell and Lenovo, have confirmed that the new NVIDIA laptop platform will be available this year, and we have seen early benchmark submissions of the N1 SoC. As NVIDIA prepares to enter the gaming laptop market, the company initially released its GB10 SoC for the DGX Spark mini workstation. This chip allowed NVIDIA to test its collaboration with MediaTek on developing new low-power SoCs that offer unusually high-performance graphics for AI applications, as well as very high RAM capacity.

In the latest images that appeared on Goofish, we see a laptop motherboard equipped with the NVIDIA N1 SoC and 128 GB of LPDDR5X memory closely packed in a specialized PCB area. This area might be designated for the cooler, which could potentially also cool the LPDDR5X memory modules. NVIDIA plans to introduce its N1/N1X SoCs with Arm-based CPU cores around Computex 2026. These will offer consumers 20 CPU cores, consisting of 10 Cortex-X925 and 10 Cortex-A725 CPU cores based on the Armv9.2 ISA, along with a “Blackwell” GPU optimized for low power settings with up to 6,144 CUDA cores in the higher-end form. You can also see the port selection on the side of the PCB, which seems to be USB-C or Thunderbolt 4/5, USB-A, and an HDMI connection. Since we don’t know which laptop model this is, we have to wait a bit more before getting final details.

Adding to the growing ecosystem of Windows on Arm (WoA) solutions, NVIDIA will be competing with Qualcomm’s recent Snapdragon X2 Elite and X2 Plus SoCs. Microsoft is focusing on providing full support for the new Windows-on-Arm platforms, some of which are already available. These platforms include Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X2 Elite processors and NVIDIA’s N1 and N1X SoCs. This new hardware requires optimization from Microsoft to ensure the best experience on Windows 11, meaning that Microsoft has prepared the Windows 11 26H1 version exclusively for these WoA platforms.