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

Facepalm: Nvidia's RTX 50 series has experienced one of the most unpopular launches in recent memory, with moderate-at-best performance gains, severe supply constraints, and dramatically inflated prices from board partners. To make matters worse, some customers have begun reporting units with defective components, leading to slightly lower 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 depending on the workload. Whether the problem is related to software or hardware remains unclear. Raster Operations Pipeline (ROP) units perform one of the final steps in the rasterization process, which calculates onscreen pixels. Nvidia's white paper on the RTX 50 series' Blackwell architecture states that the 5090 features 176 R ... Read full article.