There Are Too Many Damn Problems With Nvidia’s $2,000 RTX 5090

There’s an issue with some of the Nvidia GeForce RTX 50-series graphics cards, and it’s down to the very components inside the GPU. Nvidia said it has identified a “rare issue” with a small number of RTX 5090 and RTX 5070 Ti graphics cards that makes them run at a lower performance than they should. The good news is that Nvidia promises manufacturers that it will replace the impacted cards. The bad news is you’ll still struggle to buy one, even while some users complained their cards failed to work on startup or—in one case—literally caught on fire. RTX 5090 owners have been complaining online for over a week that some cards shipped with fewer ROPs, AKA render/raster output units than they should have. The RTX 5090 review units supposedly have 176 ROPs enabled, according to Nvidia’s white paper on the RTX 50-series, but some AIB variants may be carrying Blackwell architecture with fewer functioning ROPs. On Saturday, Nvidia confirmed board owners’ worst fears with The Verge, saying th ... Read full article.