BoltGraphics has launched a new project that seems to be from the future. The company claims impressive performance improvements compared to NVIDIA and AMD's flagships. The company that launched the "Thunder" project at CES2024 has once again launched the most powerful consumer-grade graphics card in the world today. Bolt Graphics has launched "Zeus," what it says is a "revolutionary" GPU for rendering, HPC, and gaming.
Founded in 2020 by Darwesh Singh, the startup focuses on hardware-accelerated ray tracing in movies, simulations, and games.
While the company has yet to deliver what it promised (according to its own PR, the product will be released in early 2025), it has announced Zeus, which it claims will render 10 times faster than the GeForce RTX 5090 and perform FP64 HPC 12 times faster than the latter.
The claim that EM simulation performance is 300x that of the NVIDIA Blackwell B200 is incredible, but of course these are "pre-silicon simulation benchmarks," so unless the company shows off an actual usable product, we don't really need to take these numbers seriously.
Zeus is said to have a modular design and be equipped with LPDDR5X memory, but will be equipped with 2 DDR5 SODIMMs to expand the VRAM to 384GB. The render shows an early rendering of the GPU, which also includes an RJ-45 network cable connector.
There are PCI-E5.0x16 gold fingers on both sides of the graphics card, which may be the first time on a consumer-grade graphics card.
Zeus will be available in three versions: Zeus single-chip, dual-chip and quad-chip, with TDP ranging from 120, 250 to 500W. The single-chip design will have 77Gigarays, while the dual-chip and quad-chip will have 154 and 307Gigarays respectively, with 128MB, 256MB and 512MB of on-chip cache.
The PPT looks too good to be true, but it all needs to be real to be convincing.