Nvidia RTX 5090 and 5070 Ti cards from multiple vendors are missing ROP units, impacting performance

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Nvidia RTX 5090 and 5070 Ti cards from multiple vendors are missing ROP units, impacting performance

The few lucky users who acquired Nvidia's flagship RTX 5090 soon after its initial launch should run GPU-Z to check if all 176 of the graphics card's ROP units are functioning properly. Some customers recently complained upon receiving GPUs with only 168 enabled, decreasing performance by up to five percent...Read Entire Article

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NVIDIA shipping gimped GeForce RTX 5090 cards with missing ROPs with 4.5% less performance

NVIDIA's new GeForce RTX 5090 graphics cards are shipping with missing ROPs, reduces performance by 4.5% with NVIDIA confirming the issue. Continue reading at TweakTown >

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NVIDIA To Make Good On Rare GeForce RTX 50 GPU Defect With Missing ROPs

It turns out that a spattering of reports about some GeForce RTX 5090 graphics cards shipping with missing render output unit (or raster operations pipeline) hardware were the result of a "production anomaly" and not an issue with the BIOS. NVIDIA said as much in a statement confirming a "rare issue" with some cards, which also includes the

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Spotted with Missing ROPs, NVIDIA Confirms the Issue, Multiple Vendors Affected, RTX 5070 Ti, Too

TechPowerUp has discovered that there are NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 graphics cards in retail circulation that come with too few render units, which lowers performance. Zotac's GeForce RTX 5090 Solid comes with fewer ROPs than it should—168 are enabled, instead of the 176 that are part of the RTX 5090 specifications. This loss of 8 ROPs has a small, but noticeable impact on performance. During recent testing, we noticed our Zotac RTX 5090 Solid sam…

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The negative headlines on RTX 5090 do not stop: Several users report a lower number of ROPs than originally advertised.