Last week it was revealed that some RTX 50-series playing cards had been transport with lacking ROPs, dampening the efficiency some bought from their $2,000 improve. Now, even PC builders are making assurances to potential patrons that their prebuilt rigs are unaffected by this new downside.
As noticed by VideoCardz, PC builder, CyberPowerPC had a small disclaimer on the backside of the GPU part in its gaming PCs saying:
“CyberPowerPC will guarantee all programs outfitted with GeForce RTX 5090, 5080, and 5070 Ti video playing cards have the right variety of ROPs earlier than transport.”
While VideoCardz bought a screenshot of this observe from CyberPowerPC, I appeared into the included hyperlink and seen that this disclaimer had now disappeared. We haven’t got official phrase on why this disclaimer was added, then subsequently eliminated, however it may have one thing to do with stories on its inclusion. We have reached out to CyberPowerPC for remark.
If you are questioning what ROPs even are, they’re specialised items in a GPU that learn and write pixel data and are used for varieties of anti-aliasing. The RTX 5090 is meant to have 176 ROPs however, as noticed by some customers and despatched to TechPowerUp, some apps confirmed their GPU had simply 168. This ends in a efficiency loss.
With one lacking ROP partition, Nvidia claims, “The common graphical efficiency impression is 4%, with no impression on AI and Compute workloads.”
Nvidia additionally claims this challenge hit lower than 0.5% of its playing cards. Maingear, one other PC builder, has famous the problem, although its CEO stories no RTX 50 sequence GPUs with lacking ROPs have arrived in its constructing amenities. This does counsel that Nvidia’s claims to a minimal challenge affecting a small batch as correct.
It appears seemingly that many PC builders can be checking these playing cards as they arrive in to keep away from a possible buyer sending again their complete rig due to an issue with their GPU. Given that producers are changing GPUs with lacking ROPs and the anomaly that triggered the issue within the first place has reportedly been fastened, lacking ROPs will solely change into an much more area of interest downside with time, and maybe not price flagging in each sale going ahead.
