NVIDIA Has Its Hands Full Investigating Multiple Issues with RTX 5090 Ranging from Missing ROPS, Black Screen Issues, and Melting Cables

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Following reports of melted cables, and then black screen issues including some bricked GPUs, come new reports of models from multiple vendors with fewer active render units than advertised.

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If I had thier AI CPUS you can bet your *** i would be checking every single one!!!
 
I would hope a full recall of the bad batch of GPUs r.e. ROPs is pulled. If a user has one, I would hope a full exchange is allowed. The black screen issue can probably be fixed by a BIOS or driver update, and melting issues are what they are due to the low tolerances of the power connector design, and lack of components like shunt resistors that the RTX 30 series had, so to me, the more serious issue is people getting the full hardware they paid for in GPU spec. It's all an issue, but ya know, triage, getting what you paid for is the first step.
 
Brent_Justice said:
I would hope a full recall of the bad batch of GPUs r.e. ROPs is pulled. If a user has one, I would hope a full exchange is allowed. The black screen issue can probably be fixed by a BIOS or driver update, and melting issues are what they are due to the low tolerances of the power connector design, and lack of components like shunt resistors that the RTX 30 series had, so to me, the more serious issue is people getting the full hardware they paid for in GPU spec. It's all an issue, but ya know, triage, getting what you paid for is the first step.
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Yea I agree. And it's very interesting that NOBODY has noticed a lower ROP count on an FE card. It's almost like Nvidia KNEW they were releasing questionably faulty GPU's.
 
Their press release I thought did mention some 5080s.

My bad they did not.mentiin 5080s. I'm sure that will be an oops our bad moment.
 
Brent_Justice said:
This is getting rediculous
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Kind of is, but also feels typical. It does bewilders my mind how people pay such steep early adopter tax. Not just money, stuff melting, bad AMD, i mean nvidia drivers, missing chunks of the chip or whatver mistery, and on. It will all stabilize and go away, but wow, so many just want the punishment, at any price no less.
 
The not-funny-but-funny part is nVidia 100% knows about the ROP issue, and did it anyway figuring people just wont care

It would be one thing if they had distinguished it via a different SKU - but they just tried to sweep it entirely under the rug.
 
Yea it's a pita and its odd how nvidia controls the market so much it's accepted to happen. If you're not running high end everything you can't have high end anything work well these days. At least thats what it feels like.
 
Brian_B said:
The not-funny-but-funny part is nVidia 100% knows about the ROP issue, and did it anyway figuring people just wont care

It would be one thing if they had distinguished it via a different SKU - but they just tried to sweep it entirely under the rug.
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Similar to the segmented vRAM issue on the GTX 970 (for which I not only got a partial refund on Amazon, but $20 or $30 from the class-action lawsuit).
 
DrezKill said:
Similar to the segmented vRAM issue on the GTX 970 (for which I not only got a partial refund on Amazon, but $20 or $30 from the class-action lawsuit).
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I did too except my partial refund was from Newegg. Made the sting having bought 2x 1080s at the time hurt a bit less since SLI basically died right after.
 
Actually makes sense that the 5080 was affected too given that they mentioned the 5070 Ti in their first response and both use the same die.
 
I've seen some **** from NVIDIA and ATi, AMD etc. over the years but this generation is probably the worst so far. Take any one of the issues and it would be crappy, but not all that big a deal so long as that issue was addressed adequately. In this case, the issues keep piling up.
 
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