W hen Nvidia originally confirmed that some of its new RTX 50-series graphics cards had a “rare” manufacturing issue that left them missing some promised render units and a sl

Missing ROPs in NVIDIA's Blackwell GPUs and leaked RTX 5070 performance metrics aren't sitting well with NVIDIA faithful. Here's what you need to know.

Nvidia has confirmed that 0.5% of GeForce RTX 5070 Ti, RTX 5090, and RTX 5090D graphics cards carry graphics processors with several ROPs disabled, vs the expected specification. The company advises owners of any 'Lackwell' cards to return their boards to manufacturers to have them replaced.