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Published: February 21, 2025 | Author: Mark Campbell

Another RTX 5090 series GPU spotted with missing ROPS

An RTX 5090D has been spotted with missing ROPS

Another RTX 5090 series graphics card has been spotted with missing ROPS. This time, the graphics card in question is an MSI RTX 5090D, with @9550pro being the first to report on the GPU.

The first RTX 5090 to be found with this issue was TechPowerUp‘s Zotac RTX 5090 SOLID review sample. Now that an MSI RTX 5090D has been found with the same issue, it can be confirmed that this issue doesn’t only affect Zotac’s RTX 5090 series graphics cards.

Nvidia’s RTX 5090 graphics cards should have 176 total ROPS (Raster Operations Pipelines). Now, several sources have confirmed that there are RTX 5090 series GPUs with 168 ROPS. These missing ROPS can reduce the performance of Nvidia’s new gaming flagship. However, it should be noted that not all games or workloads will see their performance decrease thanks to this reduced ROP count.

So far, Nvidia has not commented on this issue. Currently, it is unknown what the cause of this issue is. Are early 5090 BIOS’ using fewer ROPS? Is some early RTX 5090-series silicon defective? Can this be fixed with a software update? If it is a hardware/silicon issue, is it unfixable? We will report more on this issue as more information becomes available.

You can join the discussion on the MSI Nvidia RTX 5090D that was found with missing ROPS on the OC3D Forums.

Mark Campbell

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