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RTX 5070 Ti manufacturing defect cuts performance by up to 10% — 88 ROPs vs 96 ROPs (design)
Model tested had 8.3% fewer ROPs than the official spec.
As Nvidia confirmed yesterday, a handful of RTX 50 GPUs have been affected by a manufacturing defect resulting in fewer ROPs than specified. Eventually, Nvidia confirmed that this "rare" issue resides at the hardware level and only impacts 0.5% of GPUs produced; claimed to decrease performance by 4%. In any case, a user with the alias "Der Zeitgeist" reported their MSI RTX 5070 Ti Gaming Trio had defective silicon, containing 88 ROPs instead of the specified 96, as confirmed by the Nvidia white paper.
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