• Nvidia has admitted its RTX 5080 GPU additionally suffers from a chip-level fault
• It’s the identical drawback revealed final week that slows down PC gaming for all current Blackwell GPUs
• These affected can organize for a substitute graphics card with the producer of the board

Nvidia has admitted that extra of its new Blackwell graphics playing cards are affected by a fault of their chips that hampers the efficiency degree of the GPU.

Beforehand, Nvidia mentioned that RTX 5090 (and 5090D, the Asian variant) and RTX 5070 Ti GPUs have been doubtlessly hit by the difficulty whereby the chips have mysteriously misplaced some ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines). These are basically rendering pipelines for 3D graphics, and having fewer of them means efficiency in PC gaming is slowed down a bit (although the affect is variable).

Nonetheless, Group Inexperienced has now mentioned that RTX 5080 fashions will also be affected.

Nvidia informed The Verge: “Upon additional investigation, we’ve recognized that an early manufacturing construct of GeForce RTX 5080 GPUs have been additionally affected by the identical difficulty. Affected customers can contact the board producer for a substitute.”

Because of this all the new RTX 5000 graphics playing cards at present accessible are doubtlessly hit by this drawback, though the hardware-level glitch stays uncommon based on Nvidia. Certainly, Nvidia hasn’t modified its authentic advisory assertion, which states that solely 0.5% of Blackwell chips could possibly be affected (round 1 in 200).

Evaluation: Give me some ROPs, I’m coming unfastened…

This revelation comes after scattered experiences on Reddit from RTX 5080 house owners who’d investigated the ROP depend of their graphics card and located it fell in need of the official spec. These playing cards ought to have 112 ROPs, and as with the opposite defective Blackwell GPUs, affected GPUs are lacking 8 ROPs.

When you’re frightened that your new Blackwell graphics card is likely to be affected, you possibly can verify the ROP depend utilizing a monitoring utility like GPU-Z (I talk about this additional in my authentic article concerning the difficulty).

Clients with an affected graphics card have been promised a substitute, and may contact the producer of their card to prepare this swap. Sadly, that’s a little bit of a rigmarole to undergo, and one which could possibly be made a worse expertise given that provide ranges and inventory are nonetheless problematic for Blackwell graphics playing cards.

For these frightened that the incoming RTX 5070 (which is because of land subsequent week) is also affected, that isn’t the case; Nvidia made this clear after The Verge requested particularly about this mannequin. No different GPUs exterior the Blackwell vary are affected by the issue both, Group Inexperienced clarified.

Nvidia estimates that the standard efficiency loss an affected card will expertise is a mean of a 4% slowdown particularly for gaming (with no affect exterior of that for duties like AI or compute workloads). Keep in mind, that’s a mean, so for some video games, it’ll be extra, and for others it’ll be really negligible (as some video games don’t actually make a lot use of the render pipelines in query). Nonetheless, it isn’t a great search for Nvidia after an already-rocky launch for the Blackwell era.

• Nvidia is investigating experiences of crashes plaguing RTX 5090 and 5080 GPUs, with doable driver points possibly hitting RTX 4000 fashions too
• Lastly, some excellent news about Nvidia’s new GPUs: RTX 5090 inventory ranges rumored to surge in a month or so
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