Nvidia denies reports of missing ROP units in RTX 5000 laptop GPUs

In brief: In what could have been the latest piece of disastrous news for Nvidia's RTX 5000 series, there have been reports that the missing ROPs issue affecting some desktop cards was also present in laptop GPUs. However, Nvidia has categorically denied this is the case, though the company's typically ambiguous answers suggest this issue may have been present but was caught and addressed during testing. According to German publication Heise Online (via HardwareLuxx), Nvidia has asked notebook manufacturers to ensure their manufacturing partners in the Far East work extra shifts to spot any laptops with missing ROP units before they are shipped to retailers. After some users discovered that their desktop RTX 5000-series cards had fewer ROP units than they were supposed to, Nvidia said that an issue had affected less than half a percent of RTX 5090, 5090D, and 5070 Ti GPUs, which shipped with at least one ROP missing. The company later admitted that the RTX 5080 was also affected – th ... Read full article.