Bolt Graphics’ Zeus GPUs have slowly but surely been generating hype ever since the startup first announced its data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/startup-claims-its-zeus-gpu-is-10x-faster-than-nvidias-rtx-5090-bolts-first-gpu-coming-in-2026″ data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/startup-claims-its-zeus-gpu-is-10x-faster-than-nvidias-rtx-5090-bolts-first-gpu-coming-in-2026″>RISC-V GPUs in March. With its 2026 hardware launch steadily approaching, Bolt made a surprise appearance data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/29/bolt_graphics_zeus_gpu/” target=”_blank” data-url=”https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/29/bolt_graphics_zeus_gpu/” referrerpolicy=”no-referrer-when-downgrade” data-hl-processed=”none”>at the Ubuntu Summit 25.10 this week to talk about the software stack enabling its over-the-top hardware performance claims of being 13 times faster than Nvidia’s RTX 5090.
Antonio Salvemini, Director of Graphics Engineering at Bolt Graphics, presented a talk entitled “Beyond the Silicon:…
