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Some RTX 5090s are shipping with missing ROP units, leading to less gaming performance: Updated
5-8% slower than other 5090 models.
So far, GPUs from MSI, Manli, Zotac, Gigabyte, and Nvidia’s own Founders Edition model have reported instances of reduced ROP counts. ROPs, short for Render Output Unit or Raster Operations Pipelines, is a hardware component on your GPU responsible for blending colors, performing anti-aliasing, and transactions between the framebuffer. To gauge the performance difference, TPU ran several tests, witnessing an up to 11% loss in 3DMark Time Spy Extreme versus the RTX 5090 FE, confirming that this isn't just a typical software reporting error.
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