Nvidia Laptop GeForce RTX 50 Series Notebook Also Affected By Missing ROPS

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  • Both desktop and laptop versions of NVIDIA’s RTX 50 series are missing ROP units, causing up to 14% performance loss.
  • NVIDIA is collaborating with manufacturers to fix the issue, affecting only 0.5% of GPUs, to ensure proper functioning.
  • Due to the missing ROPs issue, NVIDIA’s timeline for delivering these GPUs to customers has been pushed back from March to April.

Only a few weeks after we first reported missing ROPs on the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 50 series “Blackwell” for desktop computers, it looks like the laptop versions of these GPUs may also be affected by the same problem.

Why it matters: Missing ROP units can lower GPU performance by up to 14%, affecting gaming and other tasks. Ensuring the GPUs work properly is important for a good user experience.

The German news outlet Heise Online reports that NVIDIA is collaborating with laptop manufacturers to examine any case of missing ROPs on its GeForce RTX 50 series cards. Nvidia claims these only impact 0.5% of the total supply.

Source: Heise Online

To prevent consumers from receiving GPUs that lack ROPs, NVIDIA is putting in extra effort with OEMs to ensure the GPUs are functioning properly and providing hardware that is in line with the official specifications.

Following the announcement of NVIDIA Blackwell laptop SKUs at CES and the February pre-order period, NVIDIA had planned to deliver these GPUs to customers via its partner laptop manufacturers in March. However, the current timeline is set for April, a full month later.

According to Heise Online, several notebook makers have informed them that they are currently putting in extra hours in the Far East in order to keep the situation from getting worse.

Furthermore, NVIDIA has given manufacturers instructions to check notebooks that are already equipped with the new mobile GeForce RTX 50 series graphics chips. GPUs with fewer active ROPs than those listed in the datasheet are currently the main focus.

The final VBIOS version was only recently delivered to manufacturers, delaying the start of mass production. These tests ought to assist in avoiding the shipping of models that perform worse.

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