The company claims 5x faster path tracing than Nvidia RTX 5090 at a 250W power draw, compared to the 5090’s 575W draw. It has previously claimed10x rendering gains vs the 5090.
Zeus isn’t just for graphics and gaming, however. Bolt is targeting HPC as well. It says its HPC accelerator version of Zeus can reach up to 20 TFLOPs of FP64 performance, well above the 1.423 TFLOPs of the Nvidia RTX6000 Ada Lovelace card at FP64. Bolt also claims Zeus performs electromagnetic wave simulations 300x faster than Nvidia’s B200.
Zeus also features two features unique to GPU cards. First, it offers two SO-DIMM memory (the same kind used in laptops) slots on the card in addition to the LPDDR memory for a whopping 384GB of memory. Second, it has native 400GbE and 800GbE Ethernet support for direct, large-scale GPU interconnects.
Going up against Nvidia and AMD may seem like a hopeless effort, but Jon Peddie, president of graphics consultancy Jon Peddie Research, likes their chances. “They are taking a dedicated approach, with a new and novel architecture,” he said. “Brand wise, it’ll be uphill until they get discovered, but that’s the gamer market. They are also getting good reception in the studios and ad agencies, and complex engineering in RF radiation, acoustics, and other EM fields up to radiation.”
