It turns out that not all RTX 5090 cards are created equal. Users are now discovering that their cards are missing render units.

TL;DR: NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 5090 and 5070 Ti graphics cards are shipping with missing ROPs, causing up to 4.5% reduced performance. The issue affects less than 0.5% of units, with NVIDIA ...

In fact, overseas media TechPowerUp conducted tests on game titles such as 'ELDEN RING,' and found that the RTX 5090, which has 176 ROP units, achieved an average of 184.7 FPS, while the ZOTAC RTX ...

The RTX 5090 graphics card has a unique problem where the GPU does not have as many ROPs (Raster Operations Pipeline unit) as it should to sufficiently render images in 3D post-processing.The Latest ...

This was discovered by TechPowerUp, and the affected GPU is a Zotac GeForce RTX 5090 solid, but apparently, cards from other manufacturers might also be affected. Let’s dig into what exactly is ...

If the RTX 5090 wasn’t already under a lot of scrutiny, it has now been discovered that a ZOTAC RTX 5090 graphics card is being shipped with missing ROPs. A few days ago, user Wuxi Gamer posted on the ...

The issue first surfaced with the ZOTAC 5090 SOLID model, but further investigation revealed that the problem stemmed from the GPU chip itself, not the specific AIB (Add-in Board) partner. While there ...

The production anomaly has been corrected.” TPU’s investigation found that an NVIDIA RTX 5090 – in this case, a Zotac 5090 Solid – with less than the full 176 ROPs could perform as much as 5.6% slower ...

Last week, a TechPowerUp forum user made an interesting discovery, stating that their Zotac RTX 5090 Solid had missing ROPs, resulting in a 4.54% performance loss compared to other RTX 5090 models.