"Nvidia 5090s draw more power, but I don’t think that's the story" – MSI says 50-series laptops could change everything

In the CHIP test center, we were able to take a first look at two MSI laptops equipped with the new GeForce RTX-50 graphics cards.

Nvidia RTX 5090 cards with missing ROPs are being sold as 'B-stock'

A few people who managed the minor miracle of tracking down a new Nvidia RTX 50-series graphics card were shocked and appalled to find that these GPUs were underperforming thanks to missing Render Output Units (ROPs). But as it turns out, buyers are so desperate for these new cards that at least one European vendor is trying to sell said underperforming defects as “B-stock.” German online store Alternate.de has a listing up for the Zotac RTX 509…

Retailer keeps RTX 5090 in stock by selling cards with missing ROPs

Last Updated on March 28, 2025 A couple of months have passed since the release of Nvidia’s RTX 50 series graphics cards, which kicked off with the RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 at the end of January. There were multiple issues with the new-gen cards, and a recent poll even shows that some PC gamers ...

"Nvidia 5090s draw more power, but I don’t think that's the story" – MSI says 50-series laptops could change everything

There's no real way to get around it – the rollout of Nvidia's latest lineup of flagship graphics cards (the RTX 50 series) has been a bit of a mess from a PR point of view. While the same huge demand

At the end of February, a first report caused a stir, according to which there could be models of the GeForce RTX 5090, which have too few ROPs, which naturally goes hand in hand with a certain loss of performance.

The logic comes to the world of hardware and gaming. NVIDIA is fulfilling its promise, supplying GPU to its partners so that they join them in models that they think are convenient, and apparently, chips are all with the best bining. The reason for this is simple: the graphics that are now filling the shelves in stores are all high-end or premium models directly, there is stock, and to the surprise of many, users have told NVIDIA enough, the RTX…