The good news is that Nvidia promises manufacturers that it will replace the impacted cards.
The company said this led to around 4% worse graphics performance.
The issue with the Blackwell infrastructure also impacted the China-centric RTX 5090D.
Top: Asus Prime GeForce RTX 5070 Ti; bottom: Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition© Photo: Kyle Barr / Adriano Contreras / Gizmodo
Nvidia said it has fixed the manufacturing issue.
The RTX 5070 Ti is supposed to have 96 ROPs, as our review unit supports.
To remedy the situation, users will need to contact these separate companies and work with them on replacements.
If Nvidia could correct the issue with software updates, it would.
The RTX 50-series launch has been met with more than the usual number of hangups.
The Astral is a massive four-slot, four-fan variant of the top-end GPU that costs more than $3,000.
The issue is likely on the part of Asus, rather than Nvidia.
Nvidia clearly needed to rethink its stock and quality assurance plans before launching the RTX 50-series.
Nvidia reps told users they are still investigating the issue.
The fix may have to come in a driver or VBIOS update.
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