GeForce RTX 5070 Ti with “fallen off” ROPs loses up to 11% performance in synthetic tests

It was previously reported that some GeForce RTX 5090/RTX 5090D graphics cards, and as it later turned out, the RTX 5070 Ti, are equipped with defective GPUs that lack the required number of rasterization units directly responsible for the performance of the graphics cards. In the case of the GeForce RTX 5090, the loss of gaming performance due to the missing execution units is about 5-8%. And now it has become known how much the “defective” RTX 5070 Ti loses in performance.

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As with the GeForce RTX 5090/RTX 5090D, some RTX 5070 Ti cards are missing 8 ROPs. The GPU-Z utility shows that these cards only have 88 ROPs instead of the 96 ROPs that Nvidia claims for this card. According to the German portal ComputerBase, this causes the card to lose up to 11% of its performance in various tests and games.

In the 3DMark Time Spy test, the RTX 5070 Ti with a defective chip (with 88 ROPs) scores 24,755 points, while the full-fledged RTX 5070 Ti produces a result of 27,727 points. In the 3DMark Steel Nomad test, due to the lack of rasterization units, the card scores 6,223 points, instead of the usual 6,463 points, and in the Speed ​​Way test – 7,046 points instead of the required 7,665 points.

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So the 96 ROP card is 12% faster than the 88 ROP card in Time Spy, 3% faster in Steel Nomad, and 9% faster in Speed ​​Way. In other words, the performance loss from the missing execution units is between 3% and 11%. Synthetic benchmarks tend to make better use of graphics pipelines than games, so Nvidia’s claim of a 4% performance loss may be true when the results are averaged out.

With all the known problems with the GeForce RTX 5000 series of graphics cards, including burning power connectors, shortages, the dominance of resellers, inadequate prices, and defective GPUs, its launch can be called one of the most unsuccessful in the history of Nvidia.