Bolt Graphics introduces a new project straight up from the future. The company makes ridiculous claims about offering too big of a performance uplift compared to the flagship products from NVIDIA and AMD.
Bolt Graphics Introduces "Zeus" With Additional DDR5 SODIMMs, LAN Port, and 10x the Performance of RTX 5090 at Just 120W
The company that started the "Thunder" project, introduced at CES 2024, is once again back with what seems to be the world's most powerful consumer graphics card in today's time. Bolt Graphics introduced "Zeus", which it states is a 'revolutionary' GPU for rendering, HPC, and gaming.
The startup was founded by Darwesh Singh in 2020 and focused on hardware-accelerated ray tracing in movies, emulation, and gaming.
While it has yet to deliver its promised product, which is due for an early 2025 release as per its own PR, the company has announced Zeus that it claims to be about 10 times faster than the GeForce RTX 5090 in rendering and up to 12 times faster than the latter in FP64 HPC performance.
The claims get ridiculous with 300 times the performance of NVIDIA's Blackwell B200 in EM Simulation Performance. These are all "Pre-silicon benchmarks in emulation", therefore, you don't have to take these numbers with any seriousness unless the company shows an actual working product. There might be a lot of questions regarding how such a product could exist, but we will have to wait for the company's first product to hit the market to see if it can deliver what it promised.
While there were no such ridiculous claims about Thunder, the Zeus seems from another world or from the future that brings features no other chip manufacturer could.
The Zeus is said to bring a modular design, featuring LPDDR5X memory, but will have 2x DDR5 SODIMMs to expand the VRAM up to 384 GB. The render shows the early render of what the GPU may look like, and it also includes an RJ-45 connector.
There are not one but two PCI-E 5.0 x16 connectors on both sides, which is probably the first on a consumer graphics card. In case you think this card is supposed to consume over 1000W, then you will be surprised to know that the GPU reportedly features only a single 8-pin PCI-E connector that will consume just 120W of power.
Zeus will be coming in three variants: the Zeus single chiplet, the dual chiplet, and the quad chiplet with TDPs ranging from 120, 250, and up to 500W. The single-chip design will feature 77 Gigarays while the dual and quad offerings will boast 154 and 307 Gigarays with 128 MB, 256 MB and 512 MB of on-chip cache, respectively.
There is so much going on here that seems too good to be true, and we are hesitant to believe that this is real and will continue to be doubtful unless we see Zeus in action.
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