
We finally have some reputable data about the expected performance penalty for Nvidia's defective RTX 50 series GPUs, thanks to Gamers Nexus. The YouTube channel's Steve Burke put up a bounty for Blackwell cards with missing ROPs. Burke offered a $500 bonus on top of the price on the receipt while covering both shipping and taxes. He successfully managed to procure a defective RTX 5080 Founders Edition in exchange for a Zotac equivalent with all its ROPs operational.