Benchmarks of Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080 housing fewer ROPs show noticeable performance degradations, especially at high resolutions. From 0% to 11%, the impact varies depending on the game in question.
Gamers Nexus has obtained a problematic Founders Edition card from a viewer who got a functioning replacement for their help. The card in question was an RTX 5080 packing 104 ROPs (Render Output Unit) instead of 112. The review channel put these missing eight ROPs to the test, and the results are as you’d expect, dependent on how each game utilises the GPU, and how much ROPs are leveraged during its rendering.
In Black Myth: Wukong and Baldur’s Gate 3, the missing ROPs didn’t impact performance at all. Same for Final Fantasy XIV: Dawntrail, F1 24, Resident Evil 4, and Starfield, where frame loss ranged between 0.9% to 3.3%. However, in Dying Light 2, the reviewer measured an 8.7% reduction in performance that perfectly mirrors the 7% missing ROPs. But even that is nothing compared to the 11% loss in Total War Warhammer 3, enough to bring this problematic RTX 5080 to the level of an RTX 5070 Ti or RTX 4080 Super.
While a regular RTX 5080 achieves a worst-case scenario of 91.3fps in Total War, these eight missing ROPs see performance plummet to 82.3fps. Consequently, this $1,000 GPU – assuming you can find one at this price – is just 2fps ahead of the $750 RTX 5070 Ti. In other words, you would be missing $250 worth of performance in some games. This is especially true for those who upgraded from an RTX 40 Series card were the generational uplifts are small to begin with.
The good news is that Nvidia has officially acknowledged this issue with its RTX 5090, RTX 5080, and RTX 5070 Ti GPUs, stating that only 0.5% of chips are affected. The brand has also ensured that upcoming RTX 5070 GPUs won’t suffer from this. If you own a bad model, there is no solution aside from sending it back to the manufacturer to receive a replacement. It’s a procedure could take some time, but we recommend doing it anyway. After all, you paid for the full GPU not 93% of it.
