Manufacturing Defect: Nvidia Confirms Problems With RTX 5080

Nvidia has officially confirmed that some GPUs for RTX 5080 graphics cards have been released with missing rendering units (ROPs) due to a manufacturing defect. Earlier, a similar problem was found in the RTX 5090, RTX 5090D, and RTX 5070 Ti models. Now it has become known that early batches of RTX 5080 have also suffered from the same issue.

Incident Details

The problem was first discovered by a Reddit user who reported that his RTX 5080 had only 104 ROPs instead of the claimed 112. After that, Nvidia investigated and confirmed the defect in some early batches of RTX 5080.

Given that the chips passed all the tests, they were shipped to graphics card manufacturers, which later ended up in users' hands.

During the investigation, Nvidia found that an early batch of RTX 5080 GPUs had one less ROP unit than it should have. ROPs, or raster operation pipelines, are the elements that process graphics in the last stages of rendering. So when these elements are missing, performance suffers; in this case, the shortage affected performance by reducing it by 4.5%.

According to the investigation, this problem affected less than 1% of the GPUs produced.

​How to Confirm Suspected Defects

Owners of RTX 5080 graphics cards who suspect this issue are advised to contact their graphics card manufacturer for a replacement device. You can check the number of active ROPs using the GPU-Z utility; for the RTX 5080, this value should be 112. If the program displays a lower number, this may indicate a defect.