Perplexity has started rolling out its Portable Computer feature to Windows PCs equipped with NVIDIA RTX graphics cards, giving everyday users a way to run agentic AI tasks locally instead of routing everything through the cloud. The update, detailed in a September 14, 2026 announcement, means the Perplexity Portable Computer tool now works on NVIDIA GeForce RTX and RTX PRO Workstation GPUs with at least 24GB of VRAM, extending a capability that previously lived only on NVIDIA DGX Spark systems and Linux-based RTX machines.
Key takeaways
Perplexity Portable Computer is now live on Windows PCs running NVIDIA GeForce RTX or RTX PRO GPUs with 24GB or more of VRAM.
The tool is a local version of the Perplexity Computer AI agent, capable of handling multistep tasks without sending sensitive data off-device.
It runs on a local model called Qwen 3.8 27B, which has been optimized specifically for NVIDIA RTX hardware.
Users can escalate complex requests to cloud-based models when
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