Yet another NVIDIA GPU has been spotted with the ROP defect issue, and this time around its the one model that NVIDIA didn’t mention in its recent statement – the RTX 5080. This latest case originates from Reddit user gingeraffe90, with the GPU-Z tool once again showing 8 less ROPs than the spec sheet’s figures.
ROP Fiasco Hits RTX 5080
While NVIDIA officially claims 0.5% of all units among RTX 5090, RTX 5090 D and RTX 5070 Ti to be affected by the ROP defect, this RTX 5080 is certainly not part of the claimed figures. In this case, the RTX 5080 was supposed to feature 112 ROPs (raster operation pipelines), whereas this Reddit user’s validated data registers just 104 ROPs.
This meant that all four GPUs NVIDIA has released under the RTX 50 series thus far are potentially affected, though the chipmaker did state that the defect has been fixed in the production. The user also added that the card in question is the RTX 5080 Founders Edition, likely the first card of its kind to feature this defect. All known reports of the affected GPUs thus far has been AIB designs, though it is fairly widespread, affecting several board makers with the likes of MSI, GIGABYTE, Palit, Inno3D, and more.
As for the performance impact, German publication HardwareLuxx confirmed a 14.5% performance loss in 3DMark Time Spy – a fairly significant loss that will translate to noticeably lower framerates in some games. For now, NVIDIA advises users with affected cards to return the unit back to their respective board makers; on the other hand, leaker MEGAsizeGPU theorized that the problem may have stemmed from errors in the fusing process, which is a key step in binning the chips to appropriately fit a specific SKU.
Pokdepinion: This just gets messier.
