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Nick Evanson

Can a graphics card be 2.5x faster than an RTX 5090 in path tracing and use 80% less power? Bolt Graphics claims its Zeus GPU-powered models do just that

A close-up view of the promotional render of Bolt Graphics' Zeus 1c26-32 graphics cards, as published in August 2025.

When Intel re-entered the gaming graphics card market in 2022, there was hope that, at long last, AMD and Nvidia would have some real competition in the world of GPUs. Alas, it was not to be, except in the entry-level sector, but one new company reckons it has the goodies to make RTX 50-series cards look so slow and inefficient that you'd think they were from the last decade.

The company in question is Bolt Graphics, and it has recently published a host of details and performance claims for its line-up of Zeus GPUs (via TechPowerUp). The chips themselves and the graphics cards they reside in are unusual, to say the least. In Bolt Graphics' technical document (PDF warning), four cards are listed and compared directly to Nvidia's RTX 4090, 5080, and 5090, but I'll just compare a couple of them all in the table below:

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