News 150 Nvidia RTX A6000 GPUs power the Vegas Sphere — Nvidia fuels 1.2 million LED exterior pucks and multi-layered 16K interior screens

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The Vegas Sphere, the controversial new Vegas landmark erected in 2023, is powered inside and out by an army of Nvidia workstations with RTX A6000s inside. Nvidia released an article that dives into the technical specs of the massive glowing Minion face.

150 Nvidia RTX A6000 GPUs power the Vegas Sphere — Nvidia fuels 1.2 million LED exterior pucks and multi-layered 16K interior screens : Read more

 

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The Sphere's internal and exterior screens display at an impossible 16K resolution.

Really? I heard the external resolution is just 1080p, which makes sense with it typically being viewed at a much greater distance than the interior screens.

"The building's exosphere features a 580,000-square-foot (54,000 m2) LED display also designed by SACO Technologies;[81][6][82] it was the world's largest at the time the venue opened.[83] It comprises 1.23 million puck-shaped LEDs."

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sphere_(venue)#Video_screens
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FWIW, since 1920x1080 = 2.07 MPix, it's actually less than 1080p.

... an impossible 16K resolution. For context, that is the same pixel density as four 4K displays in a 2x2 array, providing 16x the pixel density of a single 4K display as pixel density scales exponentially, not linearly.

Uh, are you sure you didn't mean a 4x4 array of 4k displays?

"Hitachi Vantara, Hitachi’s data processing wing, provides infrastructure and software for these servers. Twenty-seven nodes across the Sphere contain 4 Petabytes (1 PB = 1000 TB) of flash memory capable of 400 GB/s transfer speeds, also pushing images into the screens."

I ran some numbers, the last time this was reported, and it actually seems to imply they're using an incredibly primitive video codec.

https://forums.tomshardware.com/thr...-to-deliver-16k-content.3839633/post-23223937
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