Zeus GPU from startup Bolt Graphics promises to run circles around the competition

In brief: Sunnyvale, California-based startup Bolt Graphics has introduced a new GPU design that it claims can smoke the competition in rendering, HPC, and gaming workloads. It is a bold claim, and one that will need proof to support. The Zeus GPU is "orders of magnitude" faster than what is currently on the market. Thanks to expandable memory, Zeus solutions can accommodate up to 384 GB in a PCIe card or up to 2.25 TB per card in a 2U server. A full rack of Zeus 2U servers can be paired with as much as 180 TB of memory, Bolt Graphics claims. Zeus is also said to be the first GPU with natively integrated, high-speed 400 GbE and 800 GbE interfaces, allowing uses to connect Zeus GPUs to each other "at a massive scale." Bolt claims Zeus users can expect gains of up to 10x in rendering jobs, 6x in FP64 HPC workloads, and up to 300x in electromagnetic wave simulations. The latter is used to help design modern technology products like CT and X-ray scanners, radar sensors, stealth material ... Read full article.