A small handful of RTX 50 series partner cards have reportedly shipped without the full intended hardware as standard on the boards. It's said that less than 1% of RTX 5090 and RTX 5070 Ti graphics cards (or one in 200) have a loss of ROPs, meaning slowed down performance compared to what they should be able to achieve.

CPU-Z Validator will now test NVIDIA's new GeForce RTX 5090, RTX 5080, and RTX 5070 Ti graphics cards to see if they have missing ROPs or not.

Nvidia has confirmed to us that RTX 5080 production was affected.

It's official—following the first user report of a GeForce RTX 5080 to display missing ROPs in the popular GPU-Z utility, NVIDIA has confirmed that it too is affected by a rare 'production anomaly'

NVIDIA admits that its new GeForce RTX 5080 is missing ROPs as well, with affected customers told to contact the AIB manufacturer for a replacement.

A Reddit user posted a screenshot showing that their RTX 5080 has fewer ROPs than it should. Nvidia didn’t include the RTX 5080 when it confirmed to The Verge that a manufacturing defect is leaving “less than 0.

Following Nvidia's GeForce RTX 5090 and RTX 5070 Ti graphics cards' missing raster operating units (ROPs) issue, Nvidia's GeForce RTX 5080 has also been found to be affected by the same problem.

Before you get started checking whether your card is missing ROPs or not, though, you need to update to the latest Nvidia drivers. How to check your GPU's ROPs with CPU-Z Validato

So, you finally managed to get your hands on an RTX 5090 after the paperwork cleared on your second mortgage, only to discover that it’s giving you 10 percent fewer frames in Minecraft than you expected?