Reports are surfacing of a potential hardware defect affecting NVIDIA's newly launched flagship GeForce RTX 5090 GPUs. The issue itself is rumored to be linked to the "Blackwell"

The average graphical performance impact is 4%, with no impact on AI and Compute workloads. Affected consumers can contact the board manufacturer for a replacement. The production anomaly has been corrected.

This makes Nvidia's RTX 5070 Ti a potential sweet spot in terms of performance versus the RTX 5080 and 5090 thanks to its relatively lower MSRP of $749, even as it uses a cut-down Blackwell GB203 GPU (like the former) manufactured on a TSMC 4N FinFET process.