Bolt Graphics’ Zeus GPU: Dev Kits Arrive 2026 for Gaming, HPC, and CAD

When Bolt Graphics made its look early this yr, it was fairly a shock to see a brand new entrant within the already very aggressive shopper/prosumer GPU market. However, Bolt guarantees that its Zeus GPU is a wholly totally different beast, centered on areas akin to path tracing in video games, CAD workloads, HPC simulations, and movie/TV. Its Zeos GPU is a singular design too, with expandable reminiscence. There is a 32/64/128 GB soldered reminiscence capability, with 2x or 4x DDR5 SO-DIMM slots, supporting as much as 384 GB of reminiscence. In addition to common video outputs, the Zeus GPU incorporates a 400 GbE QSFP-DD port for superior networking on render/simulation farms, permitting 1000’s of interconnected GPUs that bypass a NIC. Bolt Graphics notes that the developer kits are on observe to reach in 2026, with mass manufacturing set for 2027.

When it involves gaming efficiency, Bolt makes use of consumer-grade GPUs akin to NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 for comparability. Until now, builders have typically needed to compromise on visible high quality to fulfill their frame-rate targets when utilizing real-time ray tracing and path tracing. With Zeus, they now not have to decide on between pace and constancy, delivering full-quality 4K path-traced graphics at a clean 120 FPS with at the very least 25 samples per pixel. On the compute aspect, Zeus excels in heavy scientific and engineering duties, attaining as much as 20 FP64 TeraFLOPS whereas consuming lower than 400 W. It tackles electromagnetic-wave simulations a staggering 300 instances quicker than the B200, with out accuracy downgrade. We are but to see if the Zeus will dwell as much as its hype, so first dev kits will uncover quite a bit about it subsequent yr.