Nvidia’s RTX 5000 series continues to be a dumpster fire, with many issues plaguing the tech giant’s latest GPU launch. Ranging from molten connectors to GPUs with entire manufacturing problems, the list keeps piling up for Nvidia, and things are not looking good.
A recent controversy revealed that certain RTX 5090 GPUs were missing a small portion of their ROPs (Render Output Unit or Raster Operations Pipeline) – which now seems to have extended into other 5000 series GPUs as well.
Nvidia’s RTX 5080 also affected by missing ROPs and decaying performance
A recent post on the r/nvidia subreddit has gained traction, with user u/gingeraffe90 posting an alleged screenshot of their RTX 5080 missing around 8 ROPs – as per GPU-Z stats. For reference, the stock RTX 5080 should come bundled with a total of 112 ROPs, while OP’s GPU came with 104 ROPs instead.
This isn’t the first fumble with ROPs that has plagued Nvidia though – the issue was prevalent in the RTX 5070 Ti and 5090 class of graphics cards, and Nvidia had issued an official statement regarding the same, urging consumers to seek replacements from vendors.
With the problem extending into the RTX 5080 cards as well, this just spells misery for consumers, and might allude to the fact that the problem could be indicative of all RTX 5000 series cards – and not just the two cards Nvidia explicitly mentioned.
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While these ROPs are (supposedly) intact within the Founders Edition versions of the card, these are almost impossible to snag, which is saying something given how difficult it is to find even vendor-specific versions.
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Consumers are rightfully unamused, and one could say that grabbing an Nvidia RTX 5000 series card is like playing with dice – you never know when you might snag an inferior version with missing ROPs. Quality control has not been Nvidia’s forte for this generation.
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This brings forward the age old wisdom of not buying products at launch, and thereby avoiding becoming an alpha tester in the process.
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While some may suggest installing a fresh version of the latest Nvidia drivers in order to ‘alleviate’ the issue, this makes little sense in practice. After all, no amount of DDU trickery and software updates can solve a hardware defect which can result in a loss of up to 15% of your expected in-game performance.
To reiterate, reinstalling drivers cannot fix hardware level issues, and the only way to go about this would be to have the card replaced in its entirety.
Nvidia could be in big trouble
Nvidia is having a rather rough launch, and the lack of ROPs on the rest of the RTX 5000 series lineup is not boding well for them. The issue is snowballing out of control, and they could soon be facing a class action lawsuit.
Coupled with AMD’s massively hyped RX 9000 series launch, as well as Intel’s Battlemage Arc GPUs offering the same performance at a fraction of the price, Nvidia could quickly lose its footing in the GPU market.
Software trickery such as DLSS and frame generation is no substitute for real, rendered frames after all. How this pans out in the long run remains to be seen, but one thing is for certain – Nvidia is quickly losing favor among customers.
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