Some RTX 5070 Ti are up to 12% less efficient due to missing ROPs — NVIDIA has acknowledged the issue and advises to request a replacement

Following the RTX 5090, fewer ROP modules in chips noticed in the RTX 5070 Ti video cards. NVIDIA says 0.5% of defective chips.

After the flagship RTX 5090 graphics cards were found to have TechPowerUp noticed a smaller number of computing units and a corresponding drop in performance, NVIDIA commented:

«We have found a rare issue affecting less than 0.5% (half a percent) of GeForce RTX 5090 / 5090D and 5070 Ti GPUs that have less ROP than specified. The average impact on graphics performance is 4%, with no impact on AI and compute workloads. Affected customers can contact the board manufacturer for a replacement. The manufacturing anomaly has been corrected».

Given the accuracy of the figure of 0.5%, VideoCardz suggests that NVIDIA has been aware of the defect for some time, but it became known from user reports. The site also notes that it is possible to get current market conditions replacement will be extremely difficult.

Деякі RTX 5070 Ti на 12% менш продуктивні через відсутні блоки ROP — NVIDIA визнала брак та радить звертатися по заміну — The first announcement of the NVIDIA RTX 7070 Ti / HKEPC video card

In addition to the number of defective chips and the estimated performance drop, this statement is interesting because it recognizes the problem with the RTX 5070 Ti as well. At the time of its announcement, such cases were not yet known, but were discovered in the last two days. The real RTX 5070 Ti with missing ROPs was first spotted in the community HKEPC. The detected video card has 88 ROPs instead of 96.

The information was also confirmed by a Reddit user who just bought an RTX 5070 Ti and also noticed 88 ROPs instead of 96. Source Computerbase has published the results of the video card’s 3DMark benchmarks. They show that a 96 ROP card is 12% faster than the 88 ROP version of Time Spy, 3% faster than Steel Nomad, and 9% — faster than Speed Way. This is close to the average result of 4% reported by NVIDIA.

In addition to missing a small part of the ROP, NVIDIA RTX 50 graphics cards have other problems. Some users faced with a black screen after installing the 572 drivers. This applies not only to RTX 50 series cards, but also to RTX 40 and 30, for which it is advisable to use older drivers for now. But for RTX 50, there are simply no such drivers, so this issue is pending. NVIDIA representative replied on the support forum that the company is investigating such cases.