After availability issues, the GeForce RTX 5090 may have defects in its GB202 chip, which could lead to a performance drop.

Some Nvidia RTX 5090 batches are missing essential ROPs, causing performance loss. Hardware issues linked to the GB202 chip ...

Nvidia says that a few RTX 5090 / 5090D and RTX 5070 Ti GPUs shipped with defective ROPs, telling affected users to contact the manufacturer for a replacement.

ASUS's in-house overclocking team uses a custom GeForce RTX 5090 with LN2 cooling: GPU pushed to 3.5GHz, GDDR7 at 34Gbps to ...

Those are the chips used in the RTX 5090, and apparently graphics card makers are getting “tons” of supply of GB202 ...

Known leaker MEGAsizeGPU on X (via Tom's Hardware) claims more RTX 5090 stock is coming in one month with "stupidly high" ...

Update: Nvidia has now officially announced that the RTX 5070 Ti GPU is out on February 20, but RTX 5070 is delayed to March ...

Reports suggest that some RTX 5090s have 5% fewer ROPs than design specifications, resulting in a noticeable performance drop ...

A diagram of Nvidia's flagship GB202 die, which powers the RTX 5090, was shared on X, revealing the componentry layout of Nvidia's Blackwell architecture. The image annotated by Kurnal shows the ...

Online leakers explained that the RTX 5090 shortage began due to scalpers over-purchasing components, but it could soon end if Nvidia adopts this strategy.

But since the bus with is 512-bits wide, we can infer that the card is most likely powered by the GB202 GPU, which is the same chip powering the GeForce RTX 5090. It is possible, however ...