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A New Gaming GPU Challenger: Bolt Graphics Takes Aim at NVIDIA

Sponsor: ID-Cooling Frozn A620 SLK on Amazon https://geni.us/Vc8Zi Bolt Graphics is taking aim at NVIDIA, promising a future GPU solution built with RISC and effectively acting as a computer-on-card. Although initially targeted fewer applications (3D artists, game developers, animators) to minimize the 'surface area' of software optimization, Bolt hopes to bring its GPU to gaming sometime in the future. Bolt has a timeline for its first actual products within the next 1-2 years for initial users and testing and currently has functional pieces of code simulating its GPU on AMD Xilinx FPGA boards. We talk with Darwesh Singh, Founder & CEO, about Bolt's architecture, plans, and ambitions. The best way to support our work is through our store: https://store.gamersnexus.net/ Like our content? Please consider becoming our Patron to support us: http://www.patreon.com/gamersnexus TIMESTAMPS 00:00 - Bolt Graphics GPU 02:52 - Dreams of a Gaming GPU 05:08 - A Peculiar Design 10:54 - Bolt Zeus GPU Architecture 18:55 - Raster, Ray Tracing, and Path Tracing 20:43 - Negative RT Sentiment and Strategy 22:54 - The Price Dream 23:41 - Cache and Memory Limitations 27:12 - Memory Impact on Bolt 28:09 - Functional Demo ** Please like, comment, and subscribe for more! ** Links to Amazon and Newegg are typically monetized on our channel (affiliate links) and may return a commission of sales to us from the retailer. This is unrelated to the product manufacturer. Any advertisements or sponsorships are disclosed within the video ("this video is brought to you by") and above the fold in the description. We do not ever produce paid content or "sponsored content" (meaning that the content is our idea and is not funded externally aside from whatever ad placement is in the beginning) and we do not ever charge manufacturers for coverage. Follow us in these locations for more gaming and hardware updates: t: http://www.twitter.com/gamersnexus f: http://www.facebook.com/gamersnexus w: http://www.gamersnexus.net/ Our policies, processes, and ethics statements relating to review samples, advertising, travel, errors, and more are transparently and publicly available on this page: https://gamers.nexus/ethics-statements Steve Burke: Host Mike Gaglione: Editing Vitalii Makhnovets: Camera, Editing