When Nvidia initially confirmed that a few of its new RTX 50-series graphics playing cards had a “uncommon” manufacturing challenge that left them lacking some promised render items and a slight quantity of efficiency because of this, it solely named three affected playing cards: the RTX 5090, RTX 5090D, and RTX 5070 Ti. However now, Nvidia has confirmed to us that RTX 5080 manufacturing was affected by the identical challenge as nicely.
“Upon additional investigation, we’ve recognized that an early manufacturing construct of GeForce RTX 5080 GPUs had been additionally affected by the identical challenge. Affected shoppers can contact the board producer for a alternative,” Nvidia GeForce international PR director Ben Berraondo tells The Verge.
In response to The Verge’s questions, Berraondo provides that “no different Nvidia GPUs have been affected” — we particularly requested in regards to the upcoming RTX 5070, and he says it’s not affected both. Nor ought to any playing cards be affected that had been produced extra not too long ago: “The manufacturing anomaly has been corrected,” he says. In case you’re questioning, he additionally instructed us that Nvidia was not conscious of those points earlier than it launched these GPUs.
Right here’s the corporate’s full amended assertion:
We’ve got recognized a uncommon challenge affecting lower than 0.5% (half a p.c) of GeForce RTX 5090 / 5090D, RTX 5080, and 5070 Ti GPUs which have one fewer ROP than specified. The common graphical efficiency influence is 4%, with no influence on AI and Compute workloads. Affected shoppers can contact the board producer for a alternative. The manufacturing anomaly has been corrected.
Whereas it doesn’t appear to be a variety of GPUs had been affected, given how few of those GPUs have shipped to date, and Nvidia can be promising replacements, it’s the newest in a line of annoyances with Nvidia’s new playing cards.