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

[WhiteLeaff]

Not in my experience across 8 systems; with RX 7900XT, Vega 64, RX 580, R9 Fury, RTX4080 Super, RTX 3080Ti, Titan Xp. Way more issues and glitches with AMD drivers overall. The worst is one system that will never boot with an RX 7900XT, but boots fine with any other GPU(s) including SLI 1080Tis and CF 290Xs; even returned that 7900XT and same issue with the replacement; both were XFX.

If you have so many GPUs you obviously don't represent the average user.

I haven't had any problems with my AMD systems(RDNA3 and Vega) for years. But I don't use Beta drivers, I don't overclock, and I leave windows updates disabled for a long time.

 

[bclaymiles]

There's a typo in the blurb header on the main page - it says "Vaporware?"

Please correct that to "Vaporware:"

cheers.

 

[Liranan]

It’s a fairly common consensus that Nvdia’s driver situation is - and has always been - the most stable of the 3 companies making GPUs. Not sure what that previous poster was smoking…

I can tell you what he's not smoking: broken GPU's after driver installation, melting power connectors, missing ROP and missing RAM.

 

[Hooda Thunkett]

Intel, AMD, and nVidia have some of the best engineers in the world, but some no name company with unknown engineers out of the blue is going to beat them? Yeah, that sounds legit. These guys just want to gobble up a whole bunch of investor money and won't have anything worthwhile to show for it in the end. I remember another company named Transmeta who made similar claims about their CPUs way back in the day. They were bought out and nothing came of their outlandish claims. I suspect this story will end the same way.

I remember Transmeta. They had the outlandish idea of making an efficient RISC core, and translating other CPUs instructions to ones for their own core in microcode. It was supposed to be much faster than Intel or AMD in theory, but it didn't work that way in practice. Oddly, this is how modern x86 processors from both Intel and AMD work now. Transmeta was the first, but like so many other firsts, they didn't last.

 

[loki1944]

If you have so many GPUs you obviously don't represent the average user.

I haven't had any problems with my AMD systems(RDNA3 and Vega) for years. But I don't use Beta drivers, I don't overclock, and I leave windows updates disabled for a long time.

I have a larger sample to quantify from.

 

[Vanderlinde]

Not in my experience across 8 systems; with RX 7900XT, Vega 64, RX 580, R9 Fury, RTX4080 Super, RTX 3080Ti, Titan Xp. Way more issues and glitches with AMD drivers overall. The worst is one system that will never boot with an RX 7900XT, but boots fine with any other GPU(s) including SLI 1080Tis and CF 290Xs; even returned that 7900XT and same issue with the replacement; both were XFX.

Turn PC off,

Cut power for 5 seconds

Turn power back on,

Start PC. Voila, screen.

I have the same issue with a 6700XT. Will not show screen upon first boot for some reason. UEFI type of stuff.

 

[loki1944]

Turn PC off,

Cut power for 5 seconds

Turn power back on,

Start PC. Voila, screen.

I have the same issue with a 6700XT. Will not show screen upon first boot for some reason. UEFI type of stuff.

Unfortunately that has not worked in this case. What is truly irritating is that out all my GPUs only the 7900XT (two of them now) does this.

 

[Vanderlinde]

Weird.

I know in the 6x00 series with some combinations of CPU's / Motherboards it does that weird behaviour. I believed my card was DOA upon first boot lol. But I figured out cutting the power, makes the thing boot for some reason. Never issues in gaming or so.