NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 Spotted with Missing ROPs, Too

[AleksandarK]

We previously covered that NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 5090 and RTX 5070 Ti chips were spotted with a few missing ROPs. NVIDIA confirmed this issue affects 0.5% of the supply of GeForce RTX 5090 / 5090D and 5070 Ti GPUs, and users should contact their vendors for a replacement. However, the case of missing ROPs is now extended further, with one user on Reddit reporting that his latest GeForce RTX 5080 Founders Edition GPU is reading only 104 ROPs, instead of the regular 112. That is eight missing ROPs—a number similar to eight missing ROPs found on GeForce RTX 5090 and RTX 5070 Ti. To double-check, the user installed the latest version of NVIDIA drivers and still recorded 104 ROPs only.

We previously found eight missing ROPs constitute a 4.54% loss in the GPU's raster hardware capability. The GPU's Raster Operations Pipeline (ROP) units handle the final stages of graphics processing—they manage pixel-level operations like blending colors, smoothing edges through antialiasing, writing pixels to texture memory, and ultimately storing the final pixel values in the frame buffer. This differs from shading units (GPU cores), which focus on calculating the colors, lighting effects, and material properties of pixels and vertices during rendering but don't directly work with the frame buffer. The performance loss from missing ROPs will differ from game to game, depending on whether a game heavily relies on ROP-intensive operations. Nonetheless, with GeForce RTX 5080 FE in the picture, we must wait and see if more future SKUs may appear with missing ROPs.



Update Feb 25th:
In response to this discovery, NVIDIA provided the following statement to TechPowerUp

Upon further investigation, we've identified that an early production build of GeForce RTX 5080 GPUs were also affected by the same issue. Affected consumers can contact the board manufacturer for a replacement.

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[Quicks]

Nvidia Blackwell sure is a shitshow.

 

[Imouto]

You know they are going to stop reporting them in the driver like they did with hotspot temps.

 

[ViperXTR]

Fake ROPs!

 

[Chomiq]

Greedy motherfuckers trying to pass off defective dies as fully working. In before class lawsuit.

 

[usiname]

If we have 5060 with 40 out of 48 ROPs, can we call it 5050 or 4060, because the performance will be almost 20% lower than not broken 5060?

 

[Bruno Vieira]

You know, no one will RMA them, as most of them were from scalpers, and the other ones are afraid to take six months to have the GPU back. Keep on milking guys 100% yields.

 

[Notional]

Ah, Blackwell. The gift that keeps on taking.

 

[FreedomEclipse]

So much for it being a "rare" issue eh?

Thou doth downplayest too much.

 

[Wirko]

Greenvidia&Partnerz will help by reducing the MSRP by $100 for the affected cards.

 

[Chaitanya]

Turd keeps getting stinkier what a surprise.

 

[R0H1T]

So much for it being a "rare" issue eh?

Thou doth downplayest too much.

When they said only 5090 and 5070Ti were affected it should've been known by then, no way 5080 or maybe 5070/5060 et al wouldn't be unless they were made from some special other worldly dies

 

[notoperable]

i see alredy the next nvidia press release will introduce a new design feature

 

[SIGSEGV]

"You can easily ask for a replacement." -- I like this comment.

 

[The Shield]

This was easy to see coming.

 

[TheDeeGee]

ROP... as in Rob Our Players, right?

 

[azrael]

Guys (and gals), you're seeing this all wrong! Raster performance is so 2010s. AI is the name of the game. We're just going to fake some more pixels and Bob's your uncle. Let's just hope those pixels are not hallucinated...

 

[Naito]

I'm amazed that all these cards are sold out everywhere. Once I saw the reviews, I saw no value in them

 

[Crackong]

Now they should rename it officially blackworst

 

[dtoxic]

Don't worry people,just turn on AI through Nvidia app and the missing ROP's will be generated restoring the missing performance,just keep buying and don't think about it.

 

[TheDeeGee]

Now they should rename it officially blackworst

Blacksheep

 

[Bwaze]

"one user on Reddit reporting that his latest GeForce RTX 5080 Founders Edition GPU is reading only 104 ROPs, instead of the regular 112"

They could fix all that with rewriting specification "up to 112 ROP".



I mean, didn't AMD try to wiggle out of their Ryzen 3000 debacle, where most CPUs didn't achieve advertised boost clock by claiming they aren't guaranteed, just theoretical maximums?

Who's gonna notice a couple of percent performance drop when you usually don't have the same configuration as reviewers, a lot of reviews are done with internal benchmarking tools and tracks and not game implemented ones that could be compared at home... Also, it's rare now to see synthetic benchmark results, "since they aren't games" - I think TechPowerUp reviews only include 3D Mark Time Spy result in overclocking sections?

 

[R0H1T]

They could fix all that with rewriting specification "up to 112 ROP".

That doesn't fly because it's not something like clock speeds, these are fixed/static parts & should be specified wherever known especially if it affects performance!

That's why there's always a base clock speed mentioned, turbo is actually OCing & not guaranteed.

 

[Wirko]

Now they should rename it officially blackworst

The poor guy David Blackwell really can't rest in peace... And given that the meaning of "well" in family names is probably "frighteningly deep hole in the ground", not "he's doing so well", there's double irony at work here.

 

[math_dude]