According to the German publication Heise, which contacted several laptop manufacturers, these companies are now working overtime to ensure that all GPUs are tested before shipping to customers. This effort is in response to NVIDIA’s request to test these GPUs, which are believed to come from the same production line as the affected desktop variants, affected by missing ROPs.
Last month, NVIDIA admitted that 0.5% of all RTX 5090 and 5070 Ti cards were affected by a missing ROPs anomaly during production. Later, after a gamer on Reddit discovered that his RTX 5080 card was also affected by missing ROPs, NVIDIA admitted that RTX 5080 SKUs are also affected. The problem is not widespread, however, many cases are known.
As we have learned from several notebook manufacturers, they are currently working overtime in the Far East to prevent the drama from escalating into the next act: Nvidia has instructed manufacturers to inspect already-produced notebooks with the new mobile GeForce RTX 5000 graphics chips. The focus is on GPUs where fewer ROPs are active than specified in the datasheet. This can lead to potentially significant losses in 3D performance.
— Heise Online
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