Oh Jesus, there are 16 16K screens? I didn’t read that right at all. That’s completely superfluous. The Las Vegas Sphere is an affront to God.
They say there are 16 screens inside, each with a 16k resolution. Such a screen would have 16x as many pixels as a 4k screen. The GPUs power those as well.
For the number of GPUs it appears to make sense. 150 GPUs for the equivalent of about 256 4k screens means each GPU handles ±2 4k screens. That doesn’t sound like a lot, but it could make sense.
The power draw of 28 MW still seems ridiculous to me though. They claim about 45 kW for the GPUs, which leaves 27955 kW for everything else. Even if we assume the screens are stupid and use 1 kw per 4k agent, that only accounts for 246 kW, leaving 27709 kW. Where the fuck does all that energy go?! Am I missing something?
todd_bonzalez@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Cosmicomical@lemmy.world 2 months ago
In the future there will be myths that we once had standards such as html but after we tried to build this sphere, god cursed us to use only incompatible proprietary protocols
srecko@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Yeah, 4k phone and 4k plasma tv don’t consume same ammount of energy.
Vanix@lemmy.world 2 months ago
This is a complete shot in the dark but could the huge power come from needing some intense industrial cooling/airflow stuff in/on the sphere?
empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
The big power draw is because of the sheer amount of light it dumps out. You try lighting up 54,000 square meters of LED panel to a few hundred nits and see how much power it takes.
realharo@lemm.ee 2 months ago
More likely it’s the thing that generates all that heat in the first place.
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Man, I wanna delay the stupid edgy joke I’m making but I can’t help myself