Bolt Graphics presents Zeus: Marketing or technological revolution?
Start-ups making ambitious promises is nothing new. But what Bolt Graphics has now announced with “Zeus” is so ambitious that even industry giants such as NVIDIA or AMD are likely to be amazed – or rather smile. A GPU that is supposed to outperform an RTX 5090 by a factor of ten and consume less energy than some laptop chips? That sounds more like a PR stunt than a genuine market innovation.
The TDP values are between 120W and 500W, and the RAM can be expanded to up to 384 GB using two DDR5 SODIMMs. This modularity would be a novelty for gaming graphics cards, but it remains to be seen whether this will prevail in practice.
Particularly bizarre: Zeus supposedly comes with an RJ-45 LAN connection. A graphics card with an Ethernet port? Why exactly this should be necessary remains unclear.
However, these values come from “pre-Silicon benchmarks in emulation”, i.e. simulations that run on paper or in software – and this is nothing more than guesswork. Without real benchmarks or hardware, this is nothing more than hot air.
