For most of us, when we think of Taiwanese company Sparkle, graphics cards come to mind first. So it came as quite a surprise when Sparkle just announced the C741-6U-Dual 16P servers packing no less than 16 Arc Pro B60 graphics cards—both in the single-GPU variant with 24 GB and the Arc Pro B60 Dual version with 48 GB. In this extreme Battlemage BMG-G21 GPU implementation, the server configuration delivers 81,920 GPU cores and 768 GB of VRAM. Sparkle uses a dedicated circuit that extends PCIe connectivity to 16 slots, giving each GPU its own PCIe 5.0 x8 interface. Both models use Intel Xeon Scalable processors from either 4th or 5th generation.

Such a setup needs an equally massive power delivery system. The 768 GB model uses five 2,700 W 80 Plus Titanium power supplies (4 + 1 redundancy) for a total of 10,800 W. The 384 GB VRAM variant uses four 2,400 W PSUs (3+1 redundancy) for 7,200 W total. For cooling, Sparkle went with classic air cooling using 15x 80 mm fans (or 12x 60 mm fans for the 384 GB variant). Both server models fit in a 6U chassis. Sparkle says they're targeting applications like Knowledge Management System and Retrieval, Multimodal RAG, or Intelligent Video Analysis.No word on pricing yet, but we think these extreme setups—putting workstation GPUs into server configs—could not only work well but also push other manufacturers to try similar approaches.