• Nvidia’s RTX 5090 has run into hassle with the newest graphics driver
• There are quite a few stories that GPUs are not being acknowledged by PCs after the driving force has been put in
• The issue might be wrapped up in PCIe 5.0 compatibility

Nvidia’s new graphics driver, which brings in assist for the RTX 5090 and 5080 GPUs, has been inflicting issues with video games crashing – and on high of that, now there are stories from some Blackwell flagship graphics card homeowners that they’re encountering some critical difficulties.

We should always make clear proper off the bat that the specter of cable melting that famously hit the RTX 4090 shouldn’t be a factor with the RTX 5090, regardless of some rumors that have been not too long ago circulating. These stories completely bought the fallacious finish of the stick (or the ability connector, somewhat).

These contemporary bugbears seemingly affecting the RTX 5090 are largely concerning the GPU failing to work (not being acknowledged by the PC), moreover with a declare that two of those Nvidia graphics playing cards have been bricked (posted on Goofish). Apparently, a part of the problem here’s a ‘very small chance’ of inside parts ‘burning’ though the interpretation could be a problem right here, I ought to word. Moreover, we ought to be very cautious round these explicit anecdotal stories at this stage (I’ll come again to that shortly).

As VideoCardz flagged up, these points have apparently hit some RTX 5090 consumers, and likewise those that’ve bought an RTX 5090 D over in Asia (the variant of the flagship made for that area).

Whereas virtually all of those stories have surfaced in Asia – popping up on the likes of Chiphell, Baidu, and Bilibili, as Wccftech observed – and contain graphics card makers similar to Manli or Colourful, there are two reported points on Reddit from homeowners of an Asus RTX 5090 (the unique poster, and a follow-up declare in that thread).

It’s price noting that RTX 5080 graphics playing cards aren’t affected by these obvious points.

Evaluation: PCIe compatibility woes?

What’s happening right here? Nicely, that’s a difficult one to unpick, and for now, we’ve to provide Nvidia the advantage of the doubt, not less than relating to the tales of RTX 5090 graphics playing cards being fried in some way – take that with a complete heap of seasoning.

Nonetheless, the issues with the brand new graphics driver inflicting the RTX 5090 to not be acknowledged by the system definitely appear very actual. Certainly, this drawback was noticed in some opinions of the flagship, and it’s one thing that might be wrapped up in PCIe 5.0 compatibility.

The answer for some, as famous within the Reddit thread with the Asus RTX 5090, is to move to the BIOS and drop all the way down to PCIe 4.0 as a substitute. Sure, that’ll imply a slight efficiency loss, but it surely’s not that huge a drop (and it’ll solely be momentary hopefully, as when issues are ironed out, you’ll have the ability to change again).

This drop to-PCIe-4.0 plan isn’t serving to everybody, although, and the trick didn’t work for the RTX 5090 owned by the unique poster on Reddit. They’ve needed to ship their board again to Nvidia, with Workforce Inexperienced now investigating the issue, we’re informed.

This stays one to maintain a detailed eye on, then, in the interim. In fact, with there being only a few RTX 5090 graphics playing cards on the market – resulting from significantly restricted inventory – any points aren’t more likely to be that broadly reported, anyway.

We’ve reached out to Nvidia to see if the corporate can shed some gentle on this matter, and can replace this story with any response.

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