SEGA’s upcoming Virtua Fighter Crossroads will be among the first titles to be natively supported on NVIDIA’s RTX Spark processor, to mark the occasion for NVIDIA and SEGA’s 30-year partnership. The two companies revealed the news from GiGO Akihabara Building 3 in Tokyo, the original site of the SEGA Akihabara Arcade.
Virtua Fighter Crossroads Leads SEGA’s RTX Spark Support
NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang appeared alongside SEGA CEO Haruki Satomi, SEGA COO Shuji Utsumi, Virtua Fighter creator Yu Suzuki, and former SEGA CEO and President Shoichiro Irimajiri at the event. The gathering has some historical significance – back in 1996, the NVIDIA NV1 chip powered the first Virtua Fighter title on PC, known as one of the earliest 3D fighting games in history.
Virtua Fighter Crossroads will be the first SEGA title to arrive on RTX Spark, with additional SEGA franchises also confirmed to follow on the platform. That being said, it’s unclear the support explicitly targets NVIDIA’s chips or Arm-based architecture in general – if the latter is the case, Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X series of chipsets should benefit as well, though not necessarily to the same extent as GPU drivers play a part in software compatibility and performance.
Revealed in Computex 2026, RTX Spark is NVIDIA’s dedicated processor/chipset for Windows PCs, as the consumer counterpart of the GB10 Superchip found in DGX Spark and similar systems. It packs 20 Arm-based CPU cores designed by MediaTek, a GPU with 6,144 CUDA cores matching RTX 5070 Laptop GPU’s performance, and up to 128GB of unified LPDDR5X memory, with laptops set to feature this chip generally on thin-ish side of the spectrum.
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