[Megathread] NVIDIA Confirms 'rare' GeForce RTX 5090 / 5090D, RTX 5080, and 5070 Ti GPUs manufacturing issue - Production anomaly has been corrected

Full Article Here: https://www.theverge.com/news/618748/nvidia-admits-the-rtx-5080-is-affecte

NVIDIA's Response Below:

“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*,” Nvidia GeForce global PR director Ben Berraondo tells The Verge.*

In response to The Verge’s questions, Berraondo adds that “no other Nvidia GPUs have been affected” — we specifically asked about the upcoming RTX 5070, and he says it’s not affected either. Nor should any cards be affected that were produced more recently: “The production anomaly has been corrected,” he says. In case you’re wondering, he also told us that Nvidia was not aware of these issues before it launched these GPUs.

Here's NVIDIA's Full Amended Statement:

We have identified a rare issue affecting less than 0.5% (half a percent) of GeForce RTX 5090 / 5090D, RTX 5080, and 5070 Ti GPUs which have one fewer ROP than specified. The average graphical performance impact is 4%, with no impact on AI and Compute workloads. Affected consumers can contact the board manufacturer for a replacement. The production anomaly has been corrected.

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Quick Clarification from me:

In the response above, NVIDIA mentioned "one fewer ROP". In this case, they are referring to the Raster Operation partition. One (1) Raster Operation partition contains the eight (8) missing ROP units.

Also, if you want to check your 50 Series cards with GPU-Z, below is the correct ROPs amounts from Blackwell whitepaper:

• RTX 5090/5090D = 176 ROPs (Affected units have 168 ROPs)
• RTX 5080 = 112 ROPs (Affected units have 104 ROPs)
• RTX 5070 Ti = 96 ROPs (Affected units have 88 ROPs)