NVIDIA has revealed that the iconic Vegas sphere which has been making the headlines, is powered by their RTX GPUs.
The Sphere is the new major attraction in Las Vegas, covering nearly 750,000 square feet of area. This large architectural marvel isn't just a standard sphere as it features several LEDs that are used to power a range of effects and even display a smiley which is known to have a lookout for ongoing traffic, whether those be cars on the highway or planes flying high up in the sky.
According to NVIDIA, the Vegas Sphere is powered by 150 RTX A6000 GPUs, each featuring over 10K cores, 48 GB of memory, & a 300W TDP. That's a total of 1,612,800 cores, 7200 GB of GDDR6 memory, and 45,000W of power consumption if all of those GPUs are running at their maximum power.
These 150 NVIDIA RTX GPUs are interconnected using state-of-the-art connectivity which includes BlueField DPUs and ConnectX-6 Dx NICs, powered by software technologies such as DOCA Firefly Service and NVIDIA Rivermax Software. All of these combined run 16 16K displays on the interior & 1.2 million programmable LEDs on the exterior of the Vegas Sphere.
It's definitely interesting to see the use of GPUs in these unconventional ways and we can't wait to see what next Sphere or structure the RTX GPUs from NVIDIA would go on the power.
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