Nvidia's statement on the matter clarifies that only a small segment (0.5%) is affected with potential to see a 4-5% performance downgrade.

NVIDIA confirms it has shipped GeForce RTX 5090, RTX 5090D, and RTX 5070 Ti graphics cards with reduced ROP counts, affected users can get a replacement.

A Reddit user posted a screenshot showing that their RTX 5080 has fewer ROPs than it should. Nvidia didn’t include the RTX 5080 when it confirmed to The Verge that a manufacturing defect is leaving “less than 0.

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'

R0X 5090, RTX 5090D, and RTX 5070 Ti chips missing render units Nvidia has confirmed that a "small number" of its RTX 5090, RTX 5090D, and RTX 5070 Ti graphics cards were shipped with missing render units.

Reseller chatrooms known as 'cook groups' see an influx of new members who pay $50 per month for help in obtaining a coveted Nvidia graphics card.

NVIDIA confirmed there is a hardware defect with some GeForce RTX 50 series GPUs and has offered guidance to affected users.

The RTX 5090 graphics card has a unique problem where the GPU does not have as many ROPs (Raster Operations Pipeline unit) as it should to sufficiently render images in 3D post-processing.The Latest Tech News,

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,