Which PC Hardware Does the Vegas Sphere Use?

[@hubzertzert]

"Yes mom its for powerpoint"

[@ercoupe197]

Gotta be able to run word

[@Theeditorbelowall]

Gotta be able to run Microsoft teams right?

[@mynameismax3334]

Needed it for the hdmi socket

[@Mecat900]

It’s for school

[@n0body45]

"yes mom, I need a smooth presentation tomorrow"

[@HistoryCave]

7.2 Terabytes of VRAM💀😭

[@Elpapu6996]

The last of us 3 minimal requirement

[@PomegranateJuiceSmoothie]

@@Elpapu6996you need 8 terrabytes minimum for it

[@number1c1arieteglazer]

amd fanboys gon say its not enough, while nvidia femboys are gonna yap sbout ray tracing and dlss 💀💀💀💀

[@diegojosephia]

I don't even have that much storage😅

[@AliRo]

​@@number1c1arieteglazerwhat are you even talking about

[@PrimeGaming10]

"Believe me bro it was the lag" Bro's setup :

[@ahmede92]

Me who thinks it was internet lag so the joke was ruined:

[@fynkozari9271]

That sphere is using a lot of energy for no reason. Effectively killing the planet.

[@triplus198]

@@ahmede92 that's ping not lag

[@Bomkz]

@@triplus198 high ping causes lag. Bad hardware causes low FPS or stutters.

[@triplus198]

@@Bomkz high ping is server delay not lag

[@beholdthegoober]

i love when he explained the specifications of the hardware of the actual sphere itself, and not the hardware just used to create the graphics for said sphere

[@lxdixd]

I mean, it’s just a really big monitor

[@russianbear0027]

​@@lxdixd sure but it'd have been nice to have a comparison between the power used rendering the image and displaying it I would also be interested in what kind of drivers are used too

[@Cezzer0]

Its a 1 minute video, what do yall want out of him?

[@danielmewes]

Yeah, it was great when he answered the question the video was about.

[@tweetmytwitter]

"Do you ever wonder what PC hardware is powering the Las Vegas sphere?" I'd say he answered the question LMAO.

[@goobstersroom]

I worked at the sphere studios in Burbank as security and had to check all the server rooms periodically to make sure the temperature was cool enough for the servers to not overheat and this is true not to mention all the work and gear it takes to power the sound in there. The sound engineer explained to me how it was like 10 plus different softwares to even play one sound and he was the main guy on the team with not much other help managing the whole thing which was insane to wrap my head around especially being that I’m a sound guy. And the robots were a trip too. I miss working there

[@texasfossilguy]

what robots did they have?

[@yhg519]

Q

[@Willem-e5v]

Cap

[@ardavanvakil6574]

That's gonna take a lot of electricity

[@MarjinsTech]

45000W, it says in the blog post

[@nimic6626]

It's gonna take a lot more for the displa. I think it's around 2mW ​@@MarjinsTech

[@ardavanvakil6574]

@@MarjinsTech oh my god

[@Michael-ty2uo]

@@MarjinsTechto power the gpus I think the sphere uses 2.8 megawatts of energy

[@Avgaming_747]

​@@nimic662628MW

[@WadezZ_TR]

MINIONS! TONIGHT WE STEAL THE LAS VEGAS SPHERE!!!

[@sageplayer3438]

HUUUURRRRRAAAAAA!!!!!!!

[@imahumanperson5041]

RRRAAAAAAHHHH

[@Sujaljaina]

Rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

[@azkaazeylia]

HURAAAAAHHH!!!

[@blockacheese_]

HUUUURRRRRAAAAA!!!!!!!!!

[@raychii7361]

I thought it was a DVD player

[@Atrcn]

😂

[@KTK-..579]

🤣🤣🤣

[@achour.falestine]

Bruh I thought it was just a video playing over it 😭😭😭😭😭

[@SpeezyBeez]

fr

[@dev.1218]

😂😂😂

[@eliasnava4851]

That’s such a good question. I didn’t even think what could be powering the sphere 💀

[@fzox]

this the setup we needed during quarantine

[@benjamenkovalev2259]

I'm a software tester for the company that takes care of the other side of this: displaying! There are hundreds of individual screens and the content needs to be synced across every panel which requires some pretty niche tech. The product in question is called Matrox Convert IP, which is essentially a box that can receive video content over a network and has multiple outputs to then display said content on multiple screens while staying perfectly in sync. Pretty neat tech!

[@KamyFX]

So it's like a power outlet but for video, they running it on a hardware network right?, not like a live stream kind of network, If it's the latter, then very expensive software to use and maintain to broadcast these videos to each link(monitor). I also assume that each monitor has 1ms response time or less, So another thousands of 4k maybe even 8k monitors with insane Ips panels probably and very fast response time. No wonder the ufc match on September 14, 2024 will be in the sphere and the individual ticked costs from 2.7k to 11.5k usd, 2.7k being last row.

[@JocaIdrone]

I have seen them use this Matrox to display BMS and CCTV monitors. wondering if its the same concept?

[@iraachievement1346]

Matrox still relevant today. Nice.

[@mikebutterface8583]

Shoutout to Matrox from back in the day. First dual monitor cards!

[@ajk_]

That's amazing. What kind of networking is needed for that is it 25G or optical? Incredible that they can get the whole wall in sync at that scale so consistently.

[@mamamondo]

I wanna see a demanding game on that sphere

[@Ftoy-OG]

The sphere displays a video , the videos are already rendered . The sphere probably does not have a gpu >_

[@dangerousdoggo5465]

@@Ftoy-OG So how will it display an image without a GPU?

[@KETANNANIVADEKAR]

😂

[@jacobmartincontreras]

​@Ftoy-OG it has to have a gpu. Everything that is displayed onto nearly any type of display is handled by a gpu. There is way to much data being displayed for it to not have a gpu. A computer has to draw an image one pixel at a time. Think of how much power it takes to draw that many pixels in one 60th of a second

[@OrRaino]

It probably won't run games since it's more demanding.

[@hall01235]

That's to create 3D content thats rendered ahead of time. For real time display, NovaStar A7S receiving cards are used along with MX40 Pro LED processors - Those processors use FPGAs. NovaStar is one of the most commonly used display processors in the LED wall space.

[@acex222]

Thank you for actually answering the question. Do NovaStar make the panels?

[@hall01235]

@@acex222 No, the A7S receiving cards control a series of LED driver chips that actually drive the LEDs. It's up to other display manufacturers to implement with those driver chips so that the A7S works for them. There's quite a few companies that make them - one is Unilumin. Basically every panel has a ethernet cable daisy chained, the receiving cards convert that signal to something the LED driver microcontrollers can understand. The processor is what talks to the receiving cards and has a bunch of ethernet ports on it for signaling.

[@acex222]

@@hall01235 what an awesome response. Thanks man.

[@TinaNewtonArt]

Yeah I was looking into those for building a volume set for a green screen room conversion. One of the versions I saw had 5 unreal engine nodes to run them with these a6000 GPUs.

[@BuckyOhYeah]

As others have said, thank you for actually answering the question. It seems especially egregious that this short shows a press release stating quite clearly; 'While the Sphere doesn't use 150 graphics cards to display the content, such GPU power is needed for content generation'. Sadly it doesn't actually state; such GPU power is needed to create the content in a timely and profitable manner... 99.9999% of GPUs could render 99.9999% of the content, it's simply that it would take too long to render to be worthwhile.

[@monolithic7739]

My uncle was one of the communications engineers on that thing, and he said they had to create their own Camera Chip because the biggest Imax capturing chip in the world was less than half as big as they needed it to be to support the resolution at that scale. The screen inside there is three NFL football fields in size, and can't remember how many thoudands of puck-sized LEDs are on the outside.

[@GumbaverianX]

bro called us broke in 180°

[@hyronharrison8127]

I loved when he told us what pc hardware was actually powering the sphere itself...

[@WatermelonDoge]

i mean he kinda did

[@Hoenhighn1]

He did

[@hyronharrison8127]

No tf he did not. He told us the hardware that creates the video contents at their studio, not what the sphere itself uses. He didnt even throw in a "the hardware they both use are the same!" Dont make the title a question you blatently ignore in your video

[@WatermelonDoge]

@@hyronharrison8127 he did explain what hardware the sphere uses (Nvidia RTX A6000) which guess what is the exact same gpu used to display the content. note that he never said which hardware does the sphere use to display the videos the title is what hardware does the sphere use which like he said was the Nvidia RTX A6000

[@hyronharrison8127]

No it is not. Video rendering always requires more power than it does to display its rendered counterpart. Anyone with a half decent understanding of graphics processing should know this... So please, I emplore you to try again! Edit: guess I spelled implore wrong...rip

[@sniffles8655]

Driver updates gonna be wild!

[@TheOmegaRiddler]

Average person: I need to see this show Me: Fuck that, I need to see that rig.

[@sageplayer3438]

True

[@sebastiangudino9377]

You can probably tour a render farm to see a "very similar rig"! Maybe not this one, true, but they are all roughly the same

[@BuckyOhYeah]

@@sebastiangudino9377 If I could choose; Pixar's render farm please!

[@danw1955]

Hah hah! Likewise.. what a unit!🤯

[@olithomas4722]

I sure am glad I found out what was powering the actual sphere…

[@Rafel-999fn]

When you said "Have you ever wondered whats powering the las vegas sphere?" I almost died from a stroke. I have seen more videos in the past week on this exact same thing than i have watched videos

[@TanvirMhamud]

Rtx 4090: I feel like a pageant Gtx 1660: what even am i 😂😂😂

[@user-tq3cn9ct2e]

The A100 in the corner:

[@bluzeorc9449]

G210:

[@guybutonyoutube]

bru i use the gtx 1660 ti but im getting an upgrade p soon

[@JayJadhav]

Gt710

[@Atrcn]

@@TanvirMhamud A spec

[@robster7787]

We have like 30 of these at the engineering office. We designed aircraft with them

[@АлексейПоплев]

And that's cool. True power of technology. I wish only that the space researches would be like so and beyond.

[@miru2583]

​@@АлексейПоплевno need. they have 4KB of ram and that's all they need

[@miaouew]

30 SPHERES?!

[@Legalyjeremy]

😂😂😂😂​@@miaouew

[@xenn4985]

@@АлексейПоплев Nasa has several super computers...

[@winkystinky]

That's just wild. There are SO many pixels on that circle.

[@Ahmedhkad]

Gpu pixel not mean pixels on monitor!

[@CTD_Roblox.By-Beans]

@@Ahmedhkadwell it's so huge 2

[@NotTonyCars]

That was exactly the gpu I first guessed when wondering about this.

[@ashley_noveyplush]

Didn't know I needed this but I'm grateful for youtube

[@high-definition]

Turns out Its just a 1080 super Bruh /s y'all 💀💀💀

[@unrenownedc]

Ah yes 1080 super, brother of the 4080 Ti

[@agsechogd6406]

​@@unrenownedcforgot the 3080 super

[@Fluskar]

Wdym its powered by the 2070 ti Super XTX

[@ygamexd8129]

​@@Fluskarno its powered by the 2095 ti super xtx 24 terabytes vram

[@allnightshifty]

yeah like the gt 4040

[@ImKelloggz]

I always wondered what it would look like if they displayed a mushroom cloud on the sphere 😂

[@charliesretrocomputing]

Lol that would be epic 😂

[@Meccarox]

omg

[@xPhantomMC]

same

[@jmm1233]

it look like Yucca Mountain and not like LasVegas hasnt had them as tourist attraction already

[@Wow.210]

I was just talking to my buddies about the sphere and now I get 4 videos about it, IN A ROW🤯

[@rhinoblaster]

Google is tracking you bruh. Should look into it, it's actually pretty intrusive because no one cares about their data until it's too late.

[@HY31494]

That sphere got personal really quick

[@oglothenerd]

People: "We are on a shortage of materials and we gotta make the Earth a greener place while lowering how much energy we use!" Also People: "Let's build a sphere that uses tons and tons of energy and resources for pretty lights that no one asked for!"

[@Notchreal2]

Dad- i Need this PC for school💀💀💀

[@greham]

The sound system is also pretty crazy. Thousands of speakers, and a crazy system to manage it and be sure no one hears weird delayed echoes from other speakers. I designed the software to run that and it was a headache to show all the speakers and all the sound sources on screens for the sound engineers to prepare the shows and make sure everything runs smoothly.

[@kingofthekoopas8857]

That’s awesome! Do the speakers use phased array tech, allowing you to direct the sound in the software?

[@mycelia_ow]

So sad we're wasting precious wealth on such things while many live destitute.

[@shwethang4347]

@@mycelia_owbruh, you donate then

[@notlNSIGHT]

@@shwethang4347What about the assholes who hoard all the wealth? They have the resources to donate. A lot of us don't.

[@AnandhSRockers]

yes mom, I need this for my school project :d

[@lukec8057]

“Do you ever wonder what PC hardware is powering the Las Vegas Sphere?” Trickster: “My Macintosh.”

[@Tweakthedevourer]

The concerts that are inside the sphere just look insane

[@noobergober]

imagine the sphere blue screens

[@ItzTeranex]

It's already happened lol

[@Xnoob545]

​@@ItzTeranex it didn't

[@On1_Master]

Dear ​@@ItzTeranex, it was fake. It was photoshopped on the sphere

[@jed-henrywitkowski6470]

Literally lol!

[@ooftuoof50]

Imagine it's running on Windows 98 SE and isn't affected by a new Windows 10 update.

[@billclockwell]

Getting deja vu, from you and UFD right now

[@thatoneperson12354]

Same here

[@NotGabe001]

Saw UFD's earlier too

[@FaultyParadox]

The dome styled Movies are dope, I saw an IMAX somewhere that was 90 degree to 90 degree head turn, and it was an insane trip.

[@Aranndii]

Meanwhile me on my laptop lowering settings of vanilla skyrim 😭

[@APersonOG]

The Sphere is incredible no matter what it would be running on though im just gonna say it

[@reap-gaming]

Go with am4 and get better gpu

[@unrenownedc]

​@@reap-gaming Go with "reading skills" and get better sight.

[@leexy3395]

​@@reap-gamingbrah having brain fart

[@reap-gaming]

@@APersonOG it was just a suggestion it is not that serious

[@APersonOG]

@@reap-gaming I haven't even said anything to you yet

[@Firstwindmaster1ツ]

Me looking at my bank acc rn (Edit 192 likes is wild)

[@shranobshrestha]

Bro feels like a peasant while I am one

[@blikthepro972]

finally, something that can run my minecraft modpack

[@Keatoil]

"Did you ever?-" go to Therapy asap LOL this trendy accent

[@mrshotgundz4635]

U gave me a heist Idea 😂

[@MBMAPPING]

Dude that one gpu is 4x my whole pc😭

[@Wvuf.]

Bros playing on a microwave

[@Niepokonany0]

Average stupid American: My pc is 100$🤑​@@Wvuf.

[@idkidk2494]

@@Wvuf. a thousand dollars for a pc is a lot more than decent bud

[@phantomdelux9048]

for me its 10 times

[@MBMAPPING]

@@phantomdelux9048 lol

[@hoodbaxter]

KZbin compression did this video dirty

[@enhidri160]

I actually live close to Sphere Studios! It’s.. interesting, seeing it every time I drive by the airport.

[@legelf]

now i gotta see a gaming test on one of those

[@Fluffernater]

Little timmy's setup (his favorite game is roblox):

[@vashishtbasdeo8740]

Why did bro do his face like that when saying 16k at the end

[@NINacide]

This is the sort of computer that could guess a password a billion times a second and crack open any security system.

[@TheOne-ofMany]

Thats way more than I would have thought.

[@syntheater4867]

these screens are LED arrays, from compamies like Roe or Saco. Used to repair them at Solothech Montreal. I think the sphere uses Saco

[@MarjinsTech]

Honestly I’m surprised it takes that much, with the amount of detail it makes sense but 700k of gpus is insanity

[@clockworklegionaire2135]

Those are A6000 ampere not even ADA a6000’s😂

[@magen6233]

That's not for the sphere itself. The sphere itself doesn't need "that much" (compared to our home computers) computing, they just play videos (yes on 3x 16k). On the other hand, creating 3d animated art and/or video editing for 3x 16k does require a lot of computing for rendering and simulations (water, smokes, physics, (...) has to be pre-computed and cached before rendering). This guy zach doesn't know what he's talking about.

[@MarjinsTech]

@@magen6233 no it’s the rendering lmao

[@xoThunder]

The room that they are stored in has to be hot asf

[@crowbarzero]

**looks at my PC** I guess they know how to bring on the heat

[@ckretlow3243]

Imagine the power usage of just that building alone

[@elzess]

Fun fact: They would use approximately 3-6 DisplayPort 2.1 cables for displaying the content

[@I3LUEZ]

Not once have I wondered this: but thanks.

[@oscarmikeyy9685]

As a stage tech that likes technology, im geeked

[@lm5085]

Giant video wall shaped in a sphere. Seen a small.one abt the size of a very large diso ball just a couple weeks ago. Amazing tech to do something like that. And it amazes me because of the curves and sphere shape.

[@Retikulum01]

The a6000 is beautiful too! It looks so smooth. I wish thete was a cheaper option

[@WahyuPlayz]

"i feel like a peasant" yes me too .

[@arucarddimples1944]

That's insane!! I want one... Maybe two...

[@actualoobmusic]

It's awesome to think that we live at the same time a possible city icon was built- It's just like being born at the same time the Eiffel Tower is built

[@cesiba1]

I live there. After a while it becomes an eyesoar. We have occasional blackouts of power during storms and wind but we have this thing... Good ol las vegas. Were they tell you water is scarce, but we have over a dozen golf courses and a waterpark, and with plans to make a lake on the strip. Priorities

[@Akemi2_1]

That’s actually fucking bonkers. Like wicked levels of power. Shit could run games at such high fps you will be playing in the future

[@randy6850]

"I feel like a peasant" bruh after watching this shot we all do.

[@SchrödingerKousae]

You know, never once did I think "What's inside it?" I just thought it was just for the giant, cute emoji outside it.

[@Kamel419]

I love the part where he tells us what PC is powering the las vegas sphere

[@AdamOwens135]

Dudes be having this set up playing Minecraft

[@angrymeowngi]

Rendering of the Sun (the swirling plasma part) and the planets (particularly Jupiter and the everlasting storm on it) would be amazing to see.

[@AlexHusTech]

*If I was there, 1 of them would "Accidently" go missing lol*

[@Mem3ster]

How did you do the logo

[@Prestiged_peck]

The a6k's aren't even very good at gaming lol

[@AlexHusTech]

@@Mem3ster I saw it available one day, maybe after certain number of subs?

[@elomuskreal]

​@@Prestiged_peckIt's good value for free though

[@enz666]

@@Mem3ster

[@Epic_ProductionsYT]

this is the kind of computer you need for BeamNG.

[@MrPir84free]

For a second, I thought you were going to say a Raspberry Pi 4

[@Kno_Buddy]

Imagine being alone inside that thing playing a video game on it or watching a movie.

[@qwerty6789x]

Microsoft Windows: you've under estimated how unoptimized i am

[@EleanorQuestionMark]

“I feel like a peasant” Me: watching on 240p with low internet

[@sorafallen6346]

Now, lets run sims4 with every mod, and dlc imaginable! Finna be craaazy

[@dagg497]

They real question is why they went with that insane resolution?? Given the size and the viewing distance involved, 4k resolution would be more than enough to not see the pixels. I mean outaide you are 100yards away and indoors 20yards

[@89erMerun]

I didn't even know there is such a sphere

[@majikclown9236]

Just to clear any confusion up, a tv from the 60's can produce a picture. It takes almost no power to put a picture on a screen crt, lcd, led. The title needs changed. Video creation and editing are where the power is needed. Not projection even if its 100 million TVs at once, still very minimal compared to a video game producing graphics

[@wasay915]

"mom what?... i just wanna get this for my homework"

[@DarkHawking]

That 9 years old cousin that only plays roblox:

[@sohomchandrachandra8446]

Meanwhile people in WB are re-creating this same structure within 5 months with bamboo, screen and glass for a period of 5 days

[@HereIsKhansu]

I hate one of those guy who says a bunch of gtx 1050 Ti could power those giant retina panels

[@vegastjg]

The Sphere looks amazing

[@binwinviju2818]

Playing mario in that PC is a dream 😂😂

[@manan-543]

No wonder nvidia became the most valuable company in the world. The products are top class. No one in the industry can match it. And there is an ever increasing need for processing power.

[@Zippien.m]

Forget all that, when we getting Mr house in that screen

[@houdini8194]

I know what's powering it, people's gambling addictions

[@alterablebark54]

I'm only now learning the Las Vegas sphere has an interior

[@carlgemlich1657]

Lol. Probably 2m people have been to concerts, movies and events inside already.

[@muntadar1655]

Imagine a Payday 3 heist where u steal the GPUs off the sphere

[@MindAndMyth]

Thats to render and export it tho to display it you wont need nowhere near that kinda power. It takes a good PC to render complex 60fps high resolution video but a phone from years ago can then display that without much issue.

[@RetroArcadeGuy]

They probably use Quadros for the content generation. I'd love to know the budget they used for splitters.

[@Nateyo]

That sounds like a tiny tiny part of the entire budget honestly

[@technosaberpro999]

I was just seeing the las vegas sphere and jack shows upn😂😂

[@BrandonRogers91]

They def are getting bulk pricing at those numbers

[@Saintever]

Imagine a tornado comes through and a bunch of people get a free a6000