If it is true that the development of GPUs for graphics cards seems to have reached a slight point of stagnation, where in each generation, performance improvements are barely increasing, it seems exaggerated enough to assume that you have a GPU 10 times more powerful that the most powerful in the world at this time, especially when it is a manufacturer with the experience of NvidiaDon't you think? Even so, this is precisely what the startup indicates Boulon graphicsAnd also to say that his first graph will be sold next year.
Of course, these declarations must be made with tweezers and, first of all, ask us “which” is more powerful. No, unfortunately, you do not expect this startup to launch a graphic 10 times more powerful next year than the RTX 5090 in the games. Even so, what they offer seems quite promising, so we will enter the question.
A GPU 10 times more powerful than RTX 5090?
Bolt Graphics is a Startup based in California and presented its platform this week GPU ZeusDesigned for games, rendering and supercalculculic simulations. The company declares that Zeus admits not only functions such as Extensible memory and integrated Ethernet interfaces, but is also able to overcome an RTX 5090 up to 10 times in the workloads of Itinerary arrangement.
As we told you at the beginning, the first thing is to ask “what” goes beyond RTX 5090, and in this case, we say that it is in the workloads and the FP64 calculation, because it does not admit the traditional rendering techniques. This means that he has very, very likely to become your next graphics card for PC games …
And unlike the NVIDIA, Intel or AMD GPUs, which are based on architectures with proprietary instructions, the Bolt start-up GPU Zeus uses the ISA Risc-V architecture of the Open Source. The ZEUS nucleus is based on a RVA23 scalar nucleus for general purposes outside the open source order with ALU FP64 and the RVFV version (RISC-V vector extension version) 1.0, which can manage the types of data of 8, 16, 32 and 64 bits, as well as additional bolts extensions designed to accelerate specific workloads.
Thus, Zeus aims at the technique of rendering road and calculation workloads, has no GPU functions with traditional fixed functions such as texture units (TMU) and the parcel operating units (ROPS) such as the graphs that we all know, it must therefore use calculation shadows for the texture sampling and the production of graphics. Despite this, as a GPU which is of course video releases, in this case, a DisplayPort 2.1an a 2.1b HDMI.
Like many current processors, this GPU consists of several chips. The basic model has a single processing unit equipped with 32 GB of LPDDR5X memory with a bandwidth of 273 GB / S, and can be attached to 128 GB of additional DDR5 memory using two RAM modules in SO-DIMM format (if you look at the image above, you can see clearly). It also has two PCIe 5.0 sockets and requires a PCIE connector of 8 feeding pin.
The Bolt Graphics startup indicates that the first kits for the developers of this GPU will be available at the end of 2025, and that mass production is planned by 2026.
