Nvidia confirms ‘rare’ RTX 5090 and 5070 Ti manufacturing issue

It’s true: Nvidia has conscionable confirmed it shipped immoderate RTX 5090, RTX 5090D, and adjacent immoderate RTX 5070 Ti graphics chips that were missing render units, arsenic TechPowerUp primitively reported — and that you’ll beryllium capable to get a replacement if your paper was affected.

Nvidia GeForce planetary PR manager Ben Berraondo tells The Verge:

We person identified a uncommon contented affecting little than 0.5% (half a percent) of GeForce RTX 5090 / 5090D and 5070 Ti GPUs which person 1 less ROP than specified. The mean graphical show interaction is 4%, with nary interaction connected AI and Compute workloads. Affected consumers tin interaction the committee shaper for a replacement. The accumulation anomaly has been corrected.

In the expansive strategy of things, that doesn’t dependable similar a batch of affected GPUs, peculiarly due to the fact that determination weren’t a batch of 5090s connected shelves to statesman with, nor was it a immense deed to show — arsenic those who discovered the missing render units can already attest. But it is the latest successful a enactment of annoyances with Nvidia’s latest pricy cards, including launch operator issues (including immoderate ongoing achromatic surface issues that Nvidia is inactive investigating) and immoderate melting powerfulness connectors.

While limited, the manufacturing contented affected aggregate Nvidia graphics paper partners: reports came successful of Zotac, MSI, Gigabyte, Manli, and even an Nvidia Founders Edition card with missing ROPs. You tin use GPU-Z to cheque your paper and spot if it’s showing the due fig of 176 ROPs; if fewer, you should astir apt get it replaced.