As Nvidia confirmed yesterday, a handful of RTX 50 GPUs have been affected by a manufacturing defect resulting in fewer ROPs than specified. The impacted GPUs, per Nvidia, include the RTX 5090 and the RTX 5070 Ti; the RTX 5080 is seemingly unaffected, with no reports having emerged yet. Meanwhile, a user at ComputerBase forums discovered that their RTX 5070 Ti was affected and offered several performance benchmarks for analysis.
The out-of-spec RTX 50 series GPUs news broke when a user at TechPowerUp's forums reported a missing ROP partition (eight ROPs) on their RTX 5090. All attempts through software such as driver reinstalls, and switching vBIOS versions, were in vain. As the news spread, more users started to double-check their units, kicking in the domino effect. Eventually, Nvidia confirmed that this "rare" issue resides at the hardware level and only impacts 0.5% of GPUs produced; claimed to decrease performance by 4%.
