NVIDIA GeForce RTX 50 Cards Spotted with Missing ROPs, NVIDIA Confirms the Issue, Multiple Vendors Affected

[3DVCash]

Imagine getting one of these from a scalper...

 

[Vya Domus]

Well it could be that the 8 ROP's are defective, though just "8" seems odd.

It doesn't work like that, if something is defective the GPU is defective, the firmware needs to be aware of what works and what doesn't. Sections of the GPU that are defective are fused off and you need different firmware.

Anyway, this is real amateur work, you'd think after decades of trying out all sorts of scams they'd know better, this could have easily been hidden and even though the performance loss was still measurable you could chalk it up to silicon lottery or some other BS.

 

[R0H1T]

You can probably disable parts that are defective/not needed through drivers as well.

Anyway, this is real amateur work, you'd think after decades of trying out all sorts of scams they'd know better, this could have easily been hidden this and even though the performance loss was still measurable you could chalk it up to silicon lottery or some other BS.

Do you see where they're operating now? Money talks & the emperor without clothes just knows one language!

 

[gridracedriver]

Worst launch in Nvidia history

 

[Bwaze]

Worst launch in Nvidia history

 

[ImTheHollowMan]

I'm just checking on my 5080 and apparently I'm missing almost 13% ROPs...

What it should be (128) while Im at 112

 

[jesdals]

Could it be a China 5090D model

 

[wNotyarD]

Could it be a China 5090D model

Nope, they have the same ROP count.

 

[mate123]

Reminds me of the Rx580 "2048" sp version which was in fact an Rx 570

AMD Radeon RX 580 2048SP Specs

AMD Polaris 20, 1284 MHz, 2048 Cores, 128 TMUs, 32 ROPs, 4096 MB GDDR5, 1750 MHz, 256 bit

www.techpowerup.com

(Granted, it was not a 3000$ model...)

 

[AVATARAT]

OMFG NVIDIA, what are you DOING?

Nvidia makes, Nvidia things - almost perfect

 

[Ayhamb99]

This generation looks to be more and more of a complete and utter disaster with how every single time I open Recent Headlines and see constant issues about Blackwell and how the reviews of the 5070 TI and 5080 turned out to be, and now on top of reports of power cables for the 5090 burning, now this, yikes. At this point a used RTX 3080 or RX 6800 XT will be the best bet for an upgrade for my 2060, if I can first upgrade my PSU lol, I have zero hope that a 5060 Ti or a 5060 will be a good option considering how everything is going with Blackwell so far.

 

[mxthunder]

Someone posted on videocardz that a 5080 also has 16 missing ROPS.

 

[wNotyarD]

Someone posted on videocardz that a 5080 also has 16 missing ROPS.

Let all hell break loose

 

[DeathtoGnomes]

These 5090 cards are rapidly becoming a complete meme at this point.

What the fck

Now let's imagine a fantasy world where AMD actually did release a high end offering with improved RT capability, 3x 8 pin pcie and you know, just something that's properly engineered. I know its a big ask, but... They would likely be able to make a killing.

i dont see what the problem is, it works great on paper.

 

[Vya Domus]

Would be nice to check if the chip itself is inscribed with a different name.

 

[bubbleawsome]

Such a weird thing to do from NVIDIA. Why even bother disabling the ROPs? The image hit and possible legal issues seem to outweigh any benefit they’d get from it, unless yields are simply abysmal beyond imagination.

 

[Vya Domus]

Why even bother disabling the ROPs

Yields, these chips are huge and even one defect means the chip is worthless as they currently don't use this specific die for a lesser product.

 

[lepudruk]

Someone posted on videocardz that a 5080 also has 16 missing ROPS.

That was just his error: his card actualy has 112 ROPs (not 128 as he thought).

 

[N/A]

Someone posted on videocardz that a 5080 also has 16 missing ROPS.

5080 has 112 to begin with. it's 1536 Cuda / 16 rops. @Db maintainer
5090 is 2048/ 16, so one GPC of 1729-2048 Cuda is stuck with only 8 Rops.

 

[mxthunder]

That was just his error: his card actualy has 112 ROPs (not 128 as he thought).

So the 5080 only has 112 ROPS, not 128? TPU database is wrong?

 

[R0H1T]

Could it be a China 5090D model

D for d***

i dont see what the problem is, it works great on paper.

You could buy a houseful worth of paper weight with that money

So the 5080 only has 112 ROPS, not 128? TPU database is wrong?

Yes it needs to be updated, TPU db info is manually entered.

 

[zcyandrew]

I tried to submit my vbios to online database, but it says BIOS reading not supported on this device.

 

[bubbleawsome]

Yields, these chips are huge and even one defect means the chip is worthless as they currently don't use this specific die for a lesser product.

The 5090 already uses a slightly disabled version of GB202, so I’m having a hard time imagining defect rates are so high to kill another 8 ROPs. And even if they are, the 5080 uses a fully enabled GB203 so if they do want to launch a 5080TI Super or something eventually they’ll have to bin the 5090 anyway. They could start saving those dies now.

 

[Chomiq]

I'm here to say the usual:

Fuck ZOTAC.

 

[remekra]

Well, damn:

Seems like I'm missing a few as well. Are we sure it's not a bug? I mean my scores in 3dmark seem to be in line, now it's OCed so its even better. Maybe the spec in the database is wrong?

D for d***

You could buy a houseful worth of paper weight with that money


Yes it needs to be updated, TPU db info is manually entered.

Oh well that would explain it.