Nvidia’s GeForce global PR director Ben Berraondo said the issue impacts less than 0.5 per cent of the affected GPUs, with one fewer ROP (Raster Operation Pipeline) than specified.

He assured that the average graphical performance impact is only around four per cent, with no effect on AI or compute workloads. The issue has since been corrected in production, and impacted customers can contact their board manufacturer for a replacement. 

According to the company, affected users will be eligible for a replacement. 

While the number of faulty GPUs is relatively small, this is yet another problem added to Nvidia’s growing list of headaches with its latest high-end graphics cards.

The launch has already been plagued by driver issues, including ongoing blackscreen problems that Nvidia is still investigating. There have also been reports of melting power connectors. 

The flaw was not limited to a single manufacturer. Reports of missing ROPs have surfaced from multiple board partners, including Zotac, MSI, Gigabyte, and Manli, as well as an Nvidia Founders Edition card.

Users who suspect their card might be affected can check using GPU-Z to verify whether it displays the correct 176 ROPs. If fewer are shown, a replacement is likely necessary.

Update: Nvidia's Ben Berraondo, GeForce Global PR Director, has confirmed that some GeForce RTX 5080 GPUs are also affected by the same issue that has plagued the RTX 5090, RTX 5090D and RTX 5070 Ti graphics cards. The GeForce RTX 5080 came with 104 instead of 112 ROPs.

Upon further investigation, we've identified that an early production build of GeForce RTX 5080 GPUs were also affected by the same issue. Affected consumers can contact the board manufacturer for a replacement.