NVIDIA's RTX 50-series GPUs are the latest, but that doesn't mean the greatest. I have 5 reasons to skip this generation, plus 3 reasons where they make sense.

“We have identified a rare issue affecting less than 0.5% (half a percent) of GeForce RTX 5090 / 5090D and 5070 Ti GPUs, which have one fewer ROP than specified," an Nvidia representative told Tom's Hardware Saturday. "The average graphical performance impact is 4%, with no impact on AI and Compute workloads.”

RTX 5090 owners have been complaining online for over a week that some cards shipped with fewer ROPs, AKA render/raster output units than they should have. The RTX 5090 review units supposedly have 176 ROPs enabled,

What happens with Nvidia matters for the entire U.S. stock market. The chip company has grown into the second-largest company on Wall Street, which means the stock’s movement carries more weight on the S&P 500 and other indexes than every company except Apple. The tech giant, based in Santa Clara, California, is now worth over $3 trillion.

Nvidia (NVDA) will release its fourth quarter financials for its fiscal 2025 on Wednesday, Feb. 26. NVDA stock has seen some turbulence since its last earnings report as its Q4 revenue guidance fell short of Wall Street’s expectations.

Nvidia Corp.’s stock still looks good to many Wall Street analysts ahead of the artificial-intelligence chip maker’s earnings Wednesday, even though the company isn’t expected to report the same level of revenue beat as it has done in the past few quarters.