It turns out that not all RTX 5090 cards are created equal. Users are now discovering that their cards are missing render units.

While RTX 5090, 5090D (GPU models sold in China) and 5070 Ti are mentioned, Reddit user gingeraffe90 also reports RTX 5080 GPUs are affected, citing a GPU-Z spec check. As reported by VideoCardz, a ...

TechPowerUp, which helped identify the issue, cited the Zotac RTX 5090 Solid cards were underperforming using the site’s GPU-Z tool, which can spell out the number of ROPs in your card.

Other cards from the likes of Asus, Gigabyte, MSI, and Zotac can demand more, especially if they’re overclocked, but that’s the ballpark figure you should expect to pay. The RTX 5090 release ...

A member of the TechPowerUp forums reported that their graphics card, GeForce RTX 5090 GPU supplied by the retailer Zotac was registering as having fewer ROPs than it should. The member attempted ...

The biggest, most powerful consumer graphics card I've ever jammed into our test rig, but not the RTX 5090 I would recommend.

If you thought "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" was an odd premise, wait until you get a load of the curious case of missing render output unit hardware (or raster operations pipeline, if you ...

TL;DR: NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 5090 and 5070 Ti graphics cards are shipping with missing ROPs, causing up to 4.5% reduced performance. The issue affects less than 0.5% of units, with NVIDIA ...

To push the limits of the ZOTAC GeForce RTX 5070 Ti AMP Extreme Infinity, we paired the GPU to a fairly powerful system ...

The current graphics card situation is a repeat of what happened during the pandemic-induced chip crisis a few years ago.

This was discovered by TechPowerUp, and the affected GPU is a Zotac GeForce RTX 5090 solid, but apparently, cards from other ...

As reported by VideoCardz, a Zotac RTX 5090 graphics card test from TechPowerUp spotted missing ROPs, which saw a 5% drop in performance compared to Nvidia's RTX 5090 Founders Edition card ...