RTX 5090 with ROP Defect: Alternate Doesn’t Sell Partially Defective Graphics Cards as B-Goods 1 Comment
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Last week, it appeared that Alternate was selling RTX-50 graphics cards with a ROP defect as B-Goods. With the Zotac GeForce 5090 Solid OC listed with 168 instead of 176 ROPS, however, a customer return that shouldn’t have been sold as B-Goods at all, as clarified now.
Alternate Doesn’t Sell ROP Defects as B-Goods
Alternate does not sell RTX-50 graphics cards with a ROP defect as B-Goods. This emerges from a statement from the online retailer that the company sent to the editorial team without being asked. Instead, there was an error in processing a customer return, whereby the graphics card was incorrectly listed as B-Goods with 168 instead of 176 active ROPS.
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Incorrectly Listed as B-Goods
In detail, Alternate explains that the Zotac GeForce RTX 5090 Solid OC listed as B-Goods was a customer return. An internal review found that the graphics card only offers 168 instead of 176 active ROPS. Due to this “partial defect,” the graphics card was subsequently listed as B and provided a corresponding rating on the product page.
The graphics card should not have been sold.
On this point, the online retailer clearly states that the card was no longer sold. The error was also not recorded in the devaluation table for the fine beasts, so an excessive B-Ware price was also displayed. Alternate had the supposed B-Goods for sale at the time of the listing for €2,899; the same graphics card with 176 ROPS can currently be found for the same price at Alternative*. Other online retailers are currently listing it at €2,949.
“Of course, we have removed the said graphics card from sale,” Alternative explains in the statement. This was in no way malicious, deceptive, or similar; it continues. “Some internal processes run automatically when errors may occur.” ROP defects known since late February
ROP defects on RTX-50 graphics cards have been a problem since late February of this year, first detected in the GeForce RTX 5090, and later in the RTX 5070 Ti and RTX 5080. Not all ROPs (Render Output Pipelines) were active for the respective model. This resulted in lower performance than advertised.
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