Don’t panic, gaming laptop buyers – Nvidia assures us that mobile RTX 5000 graphics cards won’t have the chip-level fault that hit desktop GPUs

• Nvidia has clarified that Blackwell laptop GPUs are not affected by the hardware-level glitch in rendering pipelines
• Nvidia was very clear that this is the case when pressed on the matter
• The fault is only applicable to desktop GPUs (not including the RTX 5070)

Nvidia has made it clear that its Blackwell GPUs for laptops aren’t affected by the same hardware-level fault that was discovered in its desktop models (save for the most recent RTX 5070 which is also free of this glitch).

Alarming reports emerged yesterday, from two German tech sites – Hardwareluxx and Heise Online – claiming that Nvidia was asking notebook makers to check their laptops with RTX 5000 GPUs, and part of that was to see if the mentioned glitch – where a hardware spec known as ROPs (I’ll come back to what that is exactly) is deficient – is present.

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