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150 NVIDIA workstation GPUs power the Las Vegas Sphere’s displays


You might be surprised to learn that the 750,000 square feet of screens at Sin City’s mildly astonishing new visitor attraction are powered by 150 of NVIDIA’s RTX A6000 desktop workstation GPUs, each with 48GB RAM and over 10,752 cores and 300W TDP (Thermal Design Power).. To save you firing up your Calculator app, that 1,612,800 cores, 7,200 GB of GDDR6 memory, and a potential maximum power draw of 45,000 W when operating at full capacity (via Wccftech).

NVIDIA RTX A6000

Those GPUs power sixteen 16K internal displays and 1.2 million programmable LEDs each the size of a supermarket camembert. Content is streamed and synchronised from an outside facility using NVIDIA BlueField DPUs and ConnectX-6 DX NICs via Nvidia’s Rivermax media streaming software.

The total power draw is 28 Megawatts, enough for 21,000 homes. Steps are being taken to ensure that at least 70% of that power comes from renewable sources, with the remainder offset by renewable energy credits.

Source: PC Gamer



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