Bolt Graphics Tapes Out Zeus GPU Which It Claims Is 5x Faster Than NVIDIA’s RTX 5090 In Path Tracing At Half The Power

Bolt Graphics has successfully taped out its Zeus GPU, which is expected to offer up to 6x faster HPC & 5x faster Path Tracing performance than NVIDIA’s RTX 5090.

The Bolt Graphics Zeus “12nm” GPU Aims To Offer 5x Faster Path Tracing Performance Than An RTX 5090 “5nm” Graphics Card

Last year, Bolt Graphics announced its Zeus chip and claimed some big numbers. Today, we can finally confirm that Zeus wasn’t just a paper announcement, as the chip has been successfully taped out. In a press release shared with us, Bolt Graphics confirms that its Zeus GPU test chip has been taped out at TSMC using a 12nm FFC process node.

So what is Zeus? According to Bolt graphics, Zeus is a GPU and an architecture that has been tested on an FPGA and evaluated by Bolt’s customers over the past four years. The company went with a GPU design because it serves applications beyond just gaming, such as HPC and AI. The goal with Zeus is to create a product that doesn’t cost too much, consume too much power, or take too much rack space.

The Zeus platform integrates a custom GPU architecture with a full software stack to create a unified system designed to operate across multiple compute markets. The platform uses established semiconductor processes, with the test chip successfully designed into TSMC 12 FFC. The Zeus scalable architecture also addresses advanced nodes, including 5 nm.

via Bolt Graphics

So what do the Zeus specs look like? When Zeus…