Overview
- Bolt Graphics said its Zeus GPU design reached tape-out at TSMC’s 12nm FFC on Wednesday, a step that ends design work and readies test wafers.
- The company targets production in the fourth quarter of 2027, with silicon testing, yield and performance checks, and software stack integration still ahead before independent benchmarks.
- Bolt claims Zeus delivers up to 5x faster path tracing than NVIDIA’s RTX 5090 at about half the power and up to 6x in HPC, figures that are vendor numbers and not yet verified.
- Zeus is planned in PCIe cards and 2U servers and uses LPDDR5X and DDR5 memory to raise capacity and cut system cost, with a rack setup the company says holds 19 times more memory than NVIDIA’s.
- Bolt reports a product pipeline above $500 million and 14,000 early-access members, and it designed the test chip on a mature node today with a roadmap it says can target 5 nm.