Nvidia RTX 5080 joins growing list of Blackwell GPUs missing ROP units

Facepalm: It's another day, another piece of bad news for Nvidia's Blackwell consumer graphics cards. After it was reported that RTX 5090 and RTX 5070 Ti units from multiple vendors were missing ROP units, the first case of an RTX 5080 with the same issue has surfaced. Redditor gingeraffe90 posted a GPU-Z screenshot of his RTX 5080 specs. The listed number of Raster Operations Pipeline (ROP) units in the card is 104, but it's supposed to be 112. It's believed that this is the fifth case of an RTX 5000-series card missing ROPs, but the first instance of an RTX 5080 missing the components. Reports arrived over the weekend of customers who had bought RTX 5090 cards – from multiple board partners – and discovered the GPUs came with 168 ROP units instead of 178. This impacted performance by up to five percent, depending on the workload. Some games saw a noticeable FPS decrease, especially Elden Ring, while others, including Starfield and Doom Eternal, saw almost no performance declines. ... Read full article.