What simply occurred? This is one thing no one may have predicted earlier than the RTX 5000 sequence arrived: a programs integrator has launched a program that ensures the playing cards it shares have the right ROP counts earlier than they’re despatched to clients. The transfer comes after Nvidia confirmed a small variety of RTX 5090, 5090D, 5080 and 5070 Ti playing cards have fewer models than they need to.
CyberPowerPC hopes to offer clients religion that the Blackwell playing cards of their programs aren’t lacking any parts.
Nvidia has suggested anybody who discovers their RTX 5000 card has lacking ROPs to contact the board producer that made it. It appears CyberPower does not need to be caught up in Nvidia’s mess, so it’s taking the – admittedly fast and straightforward – step of checking that the RTX 50xx playing cards it ships in programs have the right variety of ROPs earlier than they’re despatched to patrons.
After TechPowerUp noticed the issue in some customers’ playing cards, Nvida confirmed there was a problem affecting lower than half a % of RTX 5090, 5090D, and 5070 Ti GPUs, which shipped with at the very least one ROP lacking. The corporate by no means went into specifics about what brought on the issue within the first place, apart from saying it had been addressed.
Just a few days after Nvidia’s admission, a person with an RTX 5080, which the corporate by no means talked about in its announcement as being affected, posted a GPU-Z screenshot exhibiting his card had 104 ROPs as an alternative of the right 112.
It did not take lengthy for Nvidia to announce that “upon additional investigation,” it had discovered that some RTX 5080 playing cards had been additionally lacking ROPs.
RTX 5090 playing cards affected by the problem have 168 ROP models as an alternative of 178, whereas the RTX 5070 Ti has 88 as an alternative of 96. It is estimated that the lacking parts impression efficiency by as much as 5 %, relying on the workload. Some video games expertise a noticeable FPS lower, particularly Elden Ring, whereas others, together with Starfield and Doom Everlasting, expertise nearly no efficiency declines.
ROP models play a key function in rasterization by dealing with ultimate pixel processing, together with mixing, depth testing, and writing rendered pixels to the framebuffer.
The RTX 5000 sequence has been one of many worst, if not the worst, graphics card sequence launches in reminiscence: small generational efficiency uplifts, melting connectors, non-existent inventory ranges, lacking parts, and the (now fastened) black display points.
None of that is impacting Nvidia’s backside line, although. In its fourth quarter earnings, the corporate introduced a report full-year income of $130.5 billion. It marks a 114% year-over-year improve, all because of demand for its AI merchandise. There was hardly any point out of the RTX 5000 sequence, past acknowledging the shortages.
