You could spend thousands on an RTX 5090 and STILL not get the full performance you paid for. Here’s why.

Some RTX 50-series GPUs are shipping with missing ROPs—Render Output Units—which means lower performance. And the worst part? You might not even notice until it's too late.

NVIDIA has confirmed that around 1 in 200 RTX 50-series cards could be affected. Each having anything up to a 5% performance drop.

Imagine driving a Porshce, but the air intake is partially blocked. The car still runs, but you’re losing just enough power to feel it when accelerating. That’s exactly what’s happening to these GPUs—losing a small but crucial part of their performance.

At Utopia, every system we ship is benchmarked and tested to ensure full performance. If a card isn’t running at 100%, it doesn’t leave our workshop.

So before you game or edit your next video, have you checked if your GPU is actually performing as it should?

It’s easy to check—just run GPU-Z and verify the ROPs count.

GeForce RTX 5090 = 176
GeForce RTX 5080 = 112
GeForce RTX 5070 Ti = 96

And if you're buying from Utopia? You never have to worry. We check for you.