ⓘ Goofish
A recent product listing on Goofish revealed an engineering sample of a laptop motherboard containing the upcoming Nvidia N1 SoC. Laptops powered by the Nvidia N1 family of SoCs have been rumored for a long time and are expected to arrive later this year.
It has been known for some time that Nvidia is preparing to invade the consumer SoC segment. The rumored Nvidia N1X SoC has even appeared in a number of benchmark listings, while other reports have indicated that laptops from Dell and Lenovo are expected to feature this SoC sometime this quarter.
An entry-level N1 SoC is also under consideration, and a listing of what appears to be an engineering sample of an N1-equipped motherboard with 128GB of RAM has appeared on Goofish. If the listing is authentic, there is no longer any doubt that Nvidia-powered laptops are about to see the light of day.
A few images also revealed the motherboard’s port configuration, which appears to include a USB-C, a USB-A, an HDMI, and an audio jack. Considering this is almost certainly an engineering sample, the final products will likely have better I/O layouts.
Le Nvidia N1X est prêt être un SoC très puissant
A previous Geekbench listing revealed impressive performance for the high-end Nvidia N1X SoC with a 20-core CPU (10x Cortex-X925, 10x Cortex-A725), besting Apple’s M5 by a few points (MacBook Pro currently $1,677 at Amazon). The Intel Core Ultra 7 275HX is also behind, by a notable margin. Given the optimization and integration issues revealed by YouTuber Moore’s Law is Dead, the chip’s performance could prove even better as its official launch approaches.
ⓘ Goofish
Again List Geekbench also highlighted the Blackwell GPU embedded in the SoC, which is expected to feature 6,144 CUDA cores – almost identical to the GB10 SoC found in the DGX Spark mini PC. The scores aren’t exactly impressive, barely managing to surpass an RTX 2050 Mobile, probably because this is an early sample for reference, an RTX 5070 Ti Laptop has 5,888 CUDA cores.
The exact number of cores for the vanilla Nvidia N1 is not yet known at the time of writing, but further details are expected to be revealed, as is industry tradition. Qualcomm, as the sole player, currently dominates the Windows PC segment equipped with ARM processors, but it seems that Nvidia, in collaboration with MediaTek, intends to use ARM processors for Windows PCs with MediaTek ready to grab a piece of the pie.
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Translator: Ninh Ngoc Duy – Editorial Assistant – 744141 articles published on Notebookcheck since 2008
Sambit Saha, 2026-04-10 (Update: 2026-04-10)
