Recently, we reported on some of NVIDIA's RTX 5090 cards actually being defective and providing lower performance out of the box than what the specs would suggest. Now, it seems like that's also happening with the company's RTX 5080 cards as well.

Nvidia has confirmed to us that RTX 5080 production was affected.

NVIDIA admits that its new GeForce RTX 5080 is missing ROPs as well, with affected customers told to contact the AIB manufacturer for a replacement.

Not all Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080 graphics cards are equal, as the firm admits that some of them have fewer ROPs and slower game performance.

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.

It's official—following the first user report of a GeForce RTX 5080 to display missing ROPs in the popular GPU-Z utility, NVIDIA has confirmed that it too is affected by a rare 'production anomaly'

Users are reporting missing ROPs in their RTX 50 Series GPUs, with the latest reports highlighting that the issues also affects the GeForce RTX 5080.

RTX 5090 owners have been complaining online for over a week that some cards shipped with fewer ROPs, AKA render/raster output units than they should have. The RTX 5090 review units supposedly have 176 ROPs enabled,

Nvidia has admitted that there’s a problem with some of its early RTX 5080 graphics cards. No, it’s not the power connectors melting, or the random black screens, or the ridiculous pricing and availability,