Tag: Nvidia

Nvidia has confirmed the issue with missing ROPs. The company noted that the problem affects not only the flagship GeForce RTX 5090 and GeForce RTX 5090D, but also the GeForce RTX 5070 Ti. Interestingly, users have not yet complained about the GeForce RTX 5070 Ti with missing ROPs. Earlier, it was reported that some owners of GeForce RTX 5090/RTX 5090D graphics cards from Zotac, MSI, Gigabyte and Manli complained that their accelerators' GPUs lack rasterization units. Instead of the required 176 ROPs, their cards have only 168 of these units. Since ROPs are one of the key components of a graphics card, their absence negatively affects the GPU's performance. Given how scarce the supply of RTX 50 GPUs is, users of defective accelerators will have to wait a long time for a replacement. ...

A number of users complain about black screens or complete inoperability of new cards. Some blame the driver, others - problems with PCIe 5.0. It is important that Nvidia has already started an investigation. According to one version, the problem is related to the Nvidia GeForce Game Ready 572.16 WHQL drivers. This hypothesis is confirmed by the fact that the latest update has also started to receive complaints from owners of Nvidia GeForce RTX 40 series video cards. In cases where the problem is really related to the drivers, it can be solved by completely removing the package using DDU (Display Driver Uninstaller) and then reinstalling. The problem is complicated by the fact that the symptoms of failures reported by users vary, and they manifest themselves in different models of vi...