It is all the time annoying when your {hardware} fails, nevertheless it’s much more annoying when your extraordinarily scarce {hardware} fails. That is precisely what’s occurring to some NVIDIA RTX 5090 consumers, sadly.

Studies are surfacing of a possible {hardware} defect affecting NVIDIA’s newly launched flagship GeForce RTX 5090 GPUs. The difficulty itself is rumored to be linked to the “Blackwell” GB202 chip, and it leads to a diminished variety of Render Output Items (ROPs), which ends up in very important efficiency degradation. The issue first got here to gentle with reviews of RTX 5090 playing cards exhibiting fewer ROPs than anticipated within the GPU-Z monitoring software program.

Initially, it was thought that it could possibly be a bug—in any case, NVIDIA did make some fairly tall guarantees when it launched the cardboard, so it might have simply been that the hardware is falling short of those promises. Nevertheless, additional investigation, together with testing with HWINFO, confirmed the ROP discount, indicating a extra severe underlying downside. A diminished variety of ROPs can restrict a GPU’s skill to render remaining pictures, impacting efficiency. The supply of the problem, in keeping with reviews, factors to defects throughout the GB202 chip itself, the core of the RTX 5090. The issue appears restricted to a small variety of items at this early stage, nevertheless it’s additionally not restricted to a selected producer, so we might have this on playing cards from mainly all third-party producers in addition to NVIDIA’s personal Founders Version.

It’s nonetheless unknown if the issue extends to different fashions just like the RTX 5080. It is also not clear proper now if NVIDIA might be providing RMA replacements or refunds for affected items—and even worse, if it is too widespread, it’d find yourself having to do a recall. If you happen to managed to spend some huge cash on an RTX 5090, you would possibly wish to test whether or not it is performing because it ought to or not. If it appears slower than evaluations on-line present it to be, you would possibly want to interchange yours.

Supply: Wccftech