When Nvidia initially confirmed that a few of its new RTX 50-series graphics playing cards had a “uncommon” manufacturing concern that left them lacking some promised render items and a slight quantity of efficiency because of this, it solely named three affected playing cards: the RTX 5090, RTX 5090D, and RTX 5070 Ti. But now, Nvidia has confirmed to us that RTX 5080 manufacturing was affected by the identical concern as nicely.
“Upon additional investigation, we’ve recognized that an early manufacturing construct of GeForce RTX 5080 GPUs have been additionally affected by the identical concern. Affected shoppers can contact the board producer for a substitute,” Nvidia GeForce world PR director Ben Berraondo tells The Verge.
In response to The Verge’s questions, Berraondo provides that “no different Nvidia GPUs have been affected” — we particularly requested in regards to the upcoming RTX 5070, and he says it’s not affected both. Nor ought to any playing cards be affected that have been produced extra just lately: “The manufacturing anomaly has been corrected,” he says. In case you’re questioning, he additionally advised us that Nvidia was not conscious of those points earlier than it launched these GPUs.
Here’s the corporate’s full amended assertion:
We have recognized a uncommon concern affecting lower than 0.5% (half a p.c) of GeForce RTX 5090 / 5090D, RTX 5080, and 5070 Ti GPUs which have one fewer ROP than specified. The common graphical efficiency impression is 4%, with no impression on AI and Compute workloads. Affected shoppers can contact the board producer for a substitute. The manufacturing anomaly has been corrected.
While it doesn’t look like lots of GPUs have been affected, given how few of those GPUs have shipped to date, and Nvidia can be promising replacements, it’s the newest in a line of annoyances with Nvidia’s new playing cards.
