Here’s how to check if your RTX 50 series GPU is missing ROPs and losing performance
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Nvidia released the RTX 5080, along with the 5090, on January 30th. It has been a few weeks since then and the RTX 50 series has had its fair share of problems to tackle. First came the incredibly low amount of stock, followed by price hikes, power connector issues, and now some performance deficiencies.
Reports of lower-than-advertised ROPs first struck the flagship model, but now the RTX 5080 has been tested with missing ROPs, losing up to 14.5% of its performance compared to a fully functional component. This issue is also evident in the most recently released 5070 Ti. So, how do you know if you’re affected? Well, luckily the solution is nice and simple – let’s explain.
- GPU: GB203
- CUDA Cores: 10752
- VRAM: 16GB GDDR7
- Memory Bus width: 256 bit
- Base Clock speed: 2295 MHz
- Boost Clock speed: 2617 MHz
Checking your graphics card’s ROPs is easy
There are three simple steps involved in checking the ROPs count on your graphics card. The easiest way is to use a piece of software such as GPU-Z, so that’s what we recommend doing.
- Head over to the GPU-Z download page here
- Download the latest version (v2.63.0 at the time of writing)
- Launch GPU-Z and look for ROPs / TMUs under the ‘Graphics Card’ tab
As you can see above, our RTX 5080 Founders Edition card enjoys all 112 ROPs, so there are no performance issues to worry about here. We also reviewed the ASUS ROG Astral OC, and this card offered even better scores and framerates in our synthetic and gaming tests respectively.
For reference, the RTX 5090 should ship with 176 ROPs, while the RTX 5080 and RTX 5070 Ti should have 112 and 96 respectively. If your GPU is recording a lower value than it should, then you could be eligible for a replacement. However, considering the amount of stock issues we’ve been seeing for the entire roster of RTX 50 series cards, you could be waiting a while.
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