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LED processors compared

22 units from 4 makers · every figure from the maker's own specification

This page lists the processors the planner wires with: how many gigabit ports each has, how many pixels a port carries, the total one unit drives and the largest canvas it outputs.

Per-port figures are at 8-bit 60 Hz as the sheets print them, except Megapixel, which publishes at 12-bit only. Each unit's page turns the figures into panels per port for every cabinet in the library at the planner's 80% ceiling. The reasoning behind the columns is in choosing an LED processor.

ProcessorPortspx per portTotalCanvas10-bit
Novastar VX4S-N4650,0002.3 M3,840 × 1,92050%
Novastar MCTRL660 Pro6650,0002.3 M3,840 × 3,84050%
Novastar VX6006650,0003.9 M10,240 × 8,19250%
Novastar VX100010650,0006.5 M10,240 × 8,19250%
Novastar MCTRL4K16650,0008.8 M7,680 × 7,68050%
Novastar MX40 Pro20659,7229 M16,384 × 16,38450%
NovaPro UHD Jr16650,00010.4 M16,384 × 8,19250%
Brompton Tessera S88525,0004.5 M4,096 × 4,095n/a
Brompton SX40 + XD10525,0009 M4,096 × 4,095n/a
Colorlight X2m2655,3601.3 M3,840 × 2,00075%
Colorlight X4m4655,3602.6 M3,840 × 2,00075%
Colorlight X8m8655,3605.24 M16,384 × 8,19275%
Colorlight VX1010650,0006.5 M16,384 × 8,19275%
Colorlight X12m12655,3607.86 M16,384 × 8,19275%
Colorlight Z6 PRO-G220650,0008.8 M8,192 × 8,19275%
Colorlight X2020650,00013 M16,384 × 8,19275%
Colorlight X20m20655,36013.1 M16,384 × 8,19275%
Colorlight VX2020650,00013.1 M16,384 × 8,19275%
Colorlight X40m40655,36026.21 M16,384 × 8,19275%
Megapixel HELIOS Junior8425,0003.4 Mnot published100%
Megapixel HELIOS 4K24425,00012.75 Mnot published100%
Megapixel HELIOS 8K64425,00035 Mnot published100%

Reading the table

px per port is the maker's rating for one gigabit output. Crews load a port to about 80% of it, so a 650,000 px port carries 520,000 px of panels in practice. Total is the most pixels one unit drives at once, whatever the port count. Canvas is the widest and tallest picture the unit outputs; a wall that is too wide for the canvas needs a second unit even when the pixel total fits. 10-bit is the share of the 8-bit capacity the sheet keeps at 10-bit colour; where a sheet is silent the planner uses theoretical bandwidth, 80%.

The NovaStar H series chassis (H2 to H15, 10.4 M px per output card) are in the planner as a chassis plus a card count rather than as fixed units. Any wall against any of these units: the pixel map.