Nvidia's latest graphics cards have had a troubled launch, with RTX 5090 GPUs reportedly underperforming and the newly released RTX 5070 Ti being near-impossible to grab. Now, another problem has popped up — and it's affecting the full lineup.

“We have identified a rare issue affecting less than 0.5% (half a percent) of GeForce RTX 5090 / 5090D and 5070 Ti GPUs, which have one fewer ROP than specified," an Nvidia representative told Tom's Hardware Saturday. "The average graphical performance impact is 4%, with no impact on AI and Compute workloads.”

A user on Reddit has posted a GPU-Z screenshot that purportedly shows their GeForce RTX 5080 Founders Edition graphics card with fewer render operation pipelines (ROPs), or render output units if you prefer, than what are supposed to be there. It's the first case we're aware of with missing ROPs on a GeForce RTX 5080 class card, FE or otherwise.

NVIDIA has confirmed that a small batch of its GeForce RTX 5090, 5090D, and 5070 Ti GPUs shipped out with few ROPs than specified.

W hen Nvidia originally confirmed that some of its new RTX 50-series graphics cards had a “rare” manufacturing issue that left them missing some promised render units and a sl

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 Tech News,

RTX 5090 owners have been complaining online for over a week that some cards shipped with fewer ROPs, AKA render/raster output units than they should have. The RTX 5090 review units supposedly have 176 ROPs enabled,