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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 | PC Gamer (www.pcgamer.com)
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[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Using the max power use of a video card to math this is ridiculous. It's not at full TDP pushing this content. They aren't playing max FPS 3D raytraced gaming, they're playing videos.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 months ago

What.

The article says that, for the GPUs, they can have a "maximum power draw of 45,000 W at full tilt".

The 28 million W comes from the full system, and surely the massive displays, LEDs and eventually sound system makes up the bulk of that, the gfx cards are a rounding error...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Synchronizing that many screens into one/two continuous displays is not light computing work. Roughly every square foot is its own panel in commercial displays.