Some RTX 5090, 5090D, and 5070 Ti cards are missing ROP units, impacting gaming performance.

Affected users should contact manufacturers for replacement.

Nvidia stated that less than 0.5% of RTX 50 cards have the ROP issue and it will be corrected in future shipments.

Tech giant Nvidia stated that some GeForce RTX 50 graphics cards, including the RTX 5090 and 5070 Ti, are missing some raster operating pipeline (ROP) units, leading to degraded gaming performance.

Nvidia said that users with defective RTX 50 GPUs should contact the part manufacturer for a replacement.

First reported by TechPowerUp, a few RTX 5090 graphics cards manufactured by Zotac, MSI, Gigabyte, and Inno3D are missing eight ROPs.

This results in lower performance across all games, especially in titles that heavily utilize ray tracing. The RTX 5090 usually has 176 ROPs, but the defective cards have only 168 enabled ROPs.

Users can check the number of ROPs their graphics card has using programs like GPU-Z and compare the number to the advertised ROPs the card should have.

If the numbers don't match, that indicates a defective unit. With eight fewer ROPs, affected cards will see performance losses of between 4% and 8% compared to unaffected GPUs.

Users with a GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition card from Nvidia are unaffected by the ROP defect, as the problem is only restricted to cards from Add-in-Board (AIB) partners

Nvidia said the missing ROP issue has been corrected in future RTX 50 shipments.

Source - Gamerant 

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