TECH NEWS – So far, users have found out that three out of three of the graphics cards they’ve received have inferior hardware compared to the official information.
We’ve already written that the top card, the GeForce RTX 5090, has less ROP (raster operations pipeline), which results in a worse pixel fill rate and thus a performance hit. This is embarrassing for Nvidia in just one model, but over the weekend it was revealed that the other two cards already released are also affected (we wonder how big a stock market crash this will cause for “the greens”).
The RTX 5080 was also released on January 30th as its big brother. The Founders Edition and the other base models are available starting at $1000, and it seems from what we saw on Reddit that GPU-Z has unveiled the gutted graphics card here as well. The user’s RTX 5080 has 104 ROPs where it should have 112. Nvidia hasn’t said that this card is affected by the manufacturing defect, so it’s as if the company is hiding what’s going on here!
The company said that the RTX 5090, RTX 5090D and RTX 5070 Ti are also affected, and that only 0.5% of the cards produced are affected. Although there’s only one RTX 5080 that we’ve heard about this issue, there will definitely be more to come. According to the company, performance is down by about 4%, but that’s still below what should be officially announced! For a full-priced product, you shouldn’t sell a product with such a bug. By the way, Nvidia has stated that the RTX 5070 Ti is also affected, so let’s have a look at that…
The user with the RTX 5070 Ti posted the GPU-Z screenshot on Facebook. We don’t know who the manufacturer is or exactly what model it is, the ROP number is also lower here: it should be 96, but their card has only 88, a difference of 8.4%, which will certainly be noticeable in the performance of games. The pixel fill rate is completely degraded: it should be 287.7 GPixel/s, but this card can only do 223.7 GPixel/s, but the boost clock is lower, so at 2.99 GHz it would be 263.12 Gpixel/s, a difference of 9%.
Nvidia can’t explain this anymore…
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