RTX 5090 and 5070 TI: Nvidia confirms this “rare” defect but worrying

Ben Berraondo, Director of World Public Relations at Nvidia GeForce, told The Verge :: “We have identified a rare problem affecting less than 0.5 % (half a percent) of GPUROCE RTX 5090 / 5090D GPURCE and 5070 Ti which have a ROP less than specified. The average impact on graphic performance is 4 %, without impact on IA and compute workloads.

A manufacturing defect affects RTX 5090 and 5070 TI

Admittedly, the percentage of affected graphics cards is low with a limited impact on performance, but this incident is added to other problems encountered by the RTX 50 series since its launch. We are talking about Founding connectors that baseor even black screens.

Several NVIDIA partners are affected by this manufacturing defect, in particular on Zotac, MSI, Gigabyte or MANLI graphics cards. Unfortunately, the manufacturer's founders are not spared.