It turns out that not all RTX 5090 cards are created equal. Users are now discovering that their cards are missing render units.

TechPowerUp, which helped identify the issue, cited the Zotac RTX 5090 Solid cards were underperforming using the site’s GPU-Z tool, which can spell out the number of ROPs in your card.

Other cards from the likes of Asus, Gigabyte, MSI, and Zotac can demand more, especially if they’re overclocked, but that’s the ballpark figure you should expect to pay. The RTX 5090 release ...

A member of the TechPowerUp forums reported that their graphics card, GeForce RTX 5090 GPU supplied by the retailer Zotac was registering as having fewer ROPs than it should. The member attempted ...

As reported by VideoCardz, a Zotac RTX 5090 graphics card test from TechPowerUp spotted missing ROPs, which saw a 5% drop in performance compared to Nvidia's RTX 5090 Founders Edition card ...

Handily, TechPowerUp also happened to have a Zotac RTX 5090 Solid card affected by the issue in the labs, and has run some tests in comparison to an unaffected RTX 5090 Founders Edition card.

When paired with the Zotac Gaming GeForce RTX 5090 external GPU (eGPU) via USB 4, the setup aspires to deliver desktop-level gaming capabilities. However, while the performance is noteworthy ...

If you thought "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" was an odd premise, wait until you get a load of the curious case of missing render output unit hardware (or raster operations pipeline, if you ...

TL;DR: NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 5090 and 5070 Ti graphics cards are shipping with missing ROPs, causing up to 4.5% reduced performance. The issue affects less than 0.5% of units, with NVIDIA ...

This was discovered by TechPowerUp, and the affected GPU is a Zotac GeForce RTX 5090 solid, but apparently, cards from other ...