Perplexity brings Portable Computer to Windows RTX PCs

NVIDIA announced that Perplexity Portable Computer is now available in the Perplexity Windows app for compatible GeForce RTX PCs and NVIDIA RTX PRO workstations. It requires a GeForce RTX or RTX PRO GPU with at least 24GB of VRAM.

The Windows release brings the agent beyond its earlier availability on NVIDIA DGX Spark systems and RTX PCs running Linux. Portable Computer is a local version of Perplexity Computer that can plan and carry out multistep work, including analyzing data and synthesizing information across files. For related context, DataPhoenix has also covered Perplexity’s hybrid cloud-and-local processing in its Mac app.

Perplexity and NVIDIA describe Portable Computer as a hybrid local-and-cloud system. They say work handled locally can keep sensitive information on the device without consuming Perplexity Computer credits. The available evidence does not include an independent audit of those privacy and billing statements.

The local orchestrator can turn to cloud services when a task requires current information, browser access, connected apps or more advanced reasoning. Perplexity says Portable Computer asks for the user’s permission before sending content from the device to a cloud service.

NVIDIA says the Windows app streamlines local setup with a model such as Qwen 3.8 27B, post-trained for Perplexity Computer and optimized for RTX GPUs. Its listed connectors include Microsoft Outlook, OneDrive and Word, along with Google Drive, Gmail, Slack and GitHub. NVIDIA said support for DGX Station is expected later.