Some people who managed the minor miracle to find A new NVIDIA RTX 50-Series graphics card was shocked and dismayed to note that these GPUs were underperformative thanks to the missing rendering units (ROPS). But it turns out that buyers are so desperate for these new cards that at least a European seller tries to sell the said sub-performative defects like “B-Stocks”.
Alternative German online store.de Has an inscription for the solid OC Zotac RTX 5090, with its “missing” ROPs stated directly on the page. (The defective card has only 168 ROPS when it should have 176.) These missing ROPs can train up to 10% less performance.
The price of this rough diamond? € 2,899, or around 3,140 USD. For a card that Nvidia says has a PDSF of $ 2,000 without defective material.
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It is difficult to say what is the current price of the street for one of the NVIDIA and AMD cards recently launched, but a NewEGG list shows the same Zotac card as $ 2,370. Breaking, of course. And Videocardz.com Note that no, you cannot just use the guarantee on the card and make Zotac replace it with a 5090 which do Have all your ROP intact. The best you can hope would be a return and a reimbursement of the retailer.
It is quite depressing that someone sells a defective card known well above the price of an uniform GPU. It is even more depressing that, on the current market, someone will probably buy it – otherwise a real PC player ready to pay more for less, so A reseller hoping to make a small moneyWith or without disclosing that this particular 5090 is not all that is cracked.