The Nvidia RTX 50-series has been hobbled by every kind of issues, least of which being low shares and resultant excessive costs. So when there was discuss of lacking ROPs in among the new GPUs, it appeared like little greater than nasty icing on an under-baked cake. However, if what founder and CEO of Maingear Computer’s Wallace Santos says is something to go by, this downside is likely to be extremely uncommon.
“We completely take a look at each MAINGEAR Computers earlier than it ships—together with putting in GPU-Z, checking for anomalies like lacking ROPs,” the CEO says in a LinkedIn put up. “Out of the a whole lot of 5000 sequence builds, we have discovered 0 GPUs with lacking ROPs. Our mission is easy… construct it effectively and assist it effectively so you possibly can recreation!”
This appears to corroborate Nvidia saying that solely 0.5% of all playing cards are affected. The firm instructed The Verge that it is a “uncommon concern affecting lower than 0.5% of GeForce RTX 5090 / 5090D and 5070 Ti GPUs which have one fewer ROP than specified” and “the typical graphical efficiency impression is 4%, with no impression on AI and Compute workloads.” These lacking ROPs had been apparently on account of a “manufacturing anomaly”.
The firm additionally acknowledged that “upon additional investigation, we’ve recognized that an early manufacturing construct of GeForce RTX 5080 GPUs had been additionally affected by the identical concern.”
For these questioning, an ROP is a ‘raster operations pipeline’ or ‘render output pipeline’, which is a bit of {hardware} within the GPU that offers with the ultimate steps within the rendering course of, together with the manufacturing of precise pixels to retailer within the body buffer for show on-screen.
Some RTX 50-series customers (together with TechPowerUp with one of many graphics playing cards it examined) seen that their graphics playing cards had eight fewer ROPs than they need to have, resulting in worse efficiency than they need to have.
It’s simple sufficient to test whether or not this impacts your card, as {hardware} reporting software program comparable to TechPowerUp GPU-Z will inform you the variety of ROPs/TMUs in your GPU.
It’s not an amazing look to have your GPUs which might be already briefly provide and often promoting for effectively above MSRP develop into much less highly effective than marketed on account of a “manufacturing anomaly”. But this information from Maingear does appear to corroborate the concept the problem may be very uncommon—maybe only a downside with an “early manufacturing construct”, as Nvidia claimed.
If solely let’s imagine the identical in regards to the black display points. At least that downside has a driver repair rolling out someday this week. Until then, test your ROP counts and hold your eyes peeled for these driver updates, I suppose.
