Computex 2026 Live: All the best PC gaming hardware announcements at this year's show

Computex 2026 officially begins on June 2, but we're already swimming in PC gaming hardware announcements. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has revealed the RTX Spark SOC for laptops, desktops and more, Intel has taken the wraps off its G-Series Panther Lake-based gaming handheld chips, and... gosh, this'll be a long intro if I write them all out, won't it?

Instead, keep yourself tuned to the live blog entries below, where I'm collecting all the biggest news from this year's show. Two of our finest reporters are already hotfooting their way around Taipei and the Nangang Exhibition Center, and they're sending back all the latest gaming hardware goodies for us to take a look at.

Those of us back in the UK will also be scouring the press releases for everything PC gaming related you might be interested in, and it'll all end up posted by my good self right here. Join me, won't you?

Computex 2026: Latest announcements

The device in my hands feels like the standard all new handheld gaming PCs will be judged byMSI's new AI gaming monitor is kinda convincingNvidia's RTX Spark promising 100 fps at 1440p in the latest gamesDevelopers are creating Arm game ports, wholly Arm-native versions, and Prism-optimised updates for Nvidia's RTX SparkNvidia's roadmap for RTX Spark gives us a better idea of when to expect next-gen RTX GPUsNvidia's working with anti-cheat vendors for RTX SparkNvidia RTX Spark's gaming battery life will be 'better than anything you've seen before on RTX laptopsExtrapolation is the future of frame generation without the latency hit... and it's not far off

Live

Hello and welcome to our Computex 2026 live blog! You'll find all the latest PC gaming announcements from this year's show on this very page. Bear with me a second, because there's a whole lot to cover, so let's get you caught up...

The biggest news so far is Nvidia's announcement of the RTX Spark SoC, which makes use of an Arm-based N1X "superchip" with up to 20 Grace CPU cores and 6188 RTX Blackwell GPU cores.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang took to the stage to hold up two RTX Spark-equipped laptops running games, as the GPU core count is equivalent to an RTX 5070. In terms of gaming performance, though, it might be better to think of it as "RTX 5070-like", as emulation may well take its toll on the frame rate depending on the game/implementation.

(Image credit: Nvidia)

We'll have to play with one ourselves to find out, of course, but the new SoC won't just be for laptops. There are also said to be Spark-equipped mini PCs and desktops on the way, which marks something of a brave new frontier for Nvidia in the hardware space.

Still, it's the laptop potential that really has us excited here at PC Gamer Towers. Particularly if Nvidia's claims of gaming battery life "better than anything you've seen before on RTX laptops" hold up in practice.

Many questions remain, though. For a start, these systems can support up to 128 GB of RAM, which will be mighty expensive in these RAMpocalypse-influenced times. Will we see reasonably-priced 16 GB or 32 GB offerings? And will the emulation prove to be an issue, or will Nvidia's technical know-how smooth over some of the rougher Arm-based waters, especially as it's working with devs to create Arm-native games?

It's all still to play for. Still, a brand new Nvidia hardware release, with actual gaming potential rather than pure AI chops? Yep, you should pay attention to this one very closely—especially as it gives us a better idea of when to expect next-gen RTX GPUs.