NVIDIA admits that its new GeForce RTX 5080 is missing ROPs as well, with affected customers told to contact the AIB manufacturer for a replacement.

W hen Nvidia originally confirmed that some of its new RTX 50-series graphics cards had a “rare” manufacturing issue that left them missing some promised render units and a sl

Some of Nvidia's newest RTX 50 series GPUs are missing an ROP block, which essentially results in the GPU in question having eight fewer ROPs.

It's official—following the first user report of a GeForce RTX 5080 to display missing ROPs in the popular GPU-Z utility, NVIDIA has confirmed that it too is affected by a rare 'production anomaly'

A Reddit user posted a screenshot showing that their RTX 5080 has fewer ROPs than it should. Nvidia didn’t include the RTX 5080 when it confirmed to The Verge that a manufacturing defect is leaving “less than 0.

Nvidia has admitted that there’s a problem with some of its early RTX 5080 graphics cards. No, it’s not the power connectors melting, or the random black screens, or the ridiculous pricing and availability,

According to TechPowerUp, consumers revealed that some of the RTX 5090 and 5070Ti graphics cards had a lower number of ROPs than claimed by Nvidia. The RTX 5090 was showcased with 176 ROPs, but instead, it had 168. This loss of 8 ROPs results in a 4% performance loss.

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Recently, we reported on some of NVIDIA's RTX 5090 cards actually being defective and providing lower performance out of the box than what the specs would suggest. Now, it seems like that's also happening with the company's RTX 5080 cards as well.