Las Vegas' dystopia-sphere, powered by 150 Nvidia GPUs and drawing up to 28,000,000 watts, is both a testament to the hubris of humanity and an admittedly impressive technical feat
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The Las Vegas Sphere might have an impressive spec sheet, but its energy demands are almost as staggering.
  • Tattorack@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 months ago

    But wouldn’t that be only necessary if it needed to render real-time graphics at such a scale? If I’m correct, all its doing is playing back videos.

    • ilinamorato@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      4 months ago

      I think it’s doing some non-trivial amount of rendering, since it’s often syncing graphics with music played live.